'The Punisher' Spoiler-Free Season 1 Review: an excellent and realistic rendering of a Marvel comic vigilante!


💀 The Punisher 💀 Spoiler-Free Season Review 💀 9.3/10 💀

'The Punisher,' as portrayed sublimely by Jon Bernthal, is an excellent and realistic rendering of a Marvel comic vigilante.

Finally, someone really took the time to develop a character that we can relate to as a human, as someone with real PTSD, and someone who believably could pursue a personal war against the corporate, government douche bags who destroyed his life.

Bernthal does an excellent acting job, portraying a man haunted by the visions of his family being murdered, and a man struggling to reconcile with the visions haunting him. His co-partner, and I.T freak, Micro aka David Lieberman (Ebon Moss-Bachrach), is also a man with a mission to right the wrongs inflicted on him, and together, they play off of one another very well. The action scenes are simple, yet brutal and compelling, they are just enough to add balance to a story that draws one deeply into the lives of these two men who were betrayed by the system and the country they served.

I'd say that this is probably Marvel's best rendering. Why? You might ask, It is mature, and the attention to character development transcends the obsession for "action" and special effects, which we still get alot of. What's also great about this show compared to say, Luke Cage, is that it contains real controversial topics such as the gun-control laws, veterans suffering from PTSD and last but not least, terrorism.

Yet again, one of them typical scenarios where famous critics are to impatient to enjoy great character development and brilliant storytelling, which finally brought us a Frank Castle we all care about, and for some, someone they can even relate to. 

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