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Marvel's The Punisher - Season 1
A former Marine finds himself ensnared in a military conspiracy while being out to chastise the criminals responsible for his family's murder.
12 June 1962, USA
5 January 1959, Urbana, Ohio, USA
31 January 1965, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
22 February 1970, Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan
20 January 1990, Los Angeles, California, USA
7 February 1985, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
1 January 1987, Long Island, New York, USA
21 May 1965
November 16, 2017
It's a slow, monotonous story without a clear antagonist, and Frank is a grim, one-note character who works better as a supporting player than a lead.
November 14, 2017
The Punisher passes that point and keeps going and its thin plot and characterisation cannot support it beyond that.
November 13, 2017
Like all good noir stories, The Punisher can be very dense at times, but in a surprising twist for a Marvel show it does all come together in a way that makes sense.
November 16, 2017
At 13 hours, you'll feel as if you're the one being punished for something.
November 16, 2017
As usual, the production is immaculate, and Bernthal -- who never disappoints -- is his usual self. You may, however, wish (I did) that his Punisher wasn't such a humorless, unmitigated jerk.
November 15, 2017
The Punisher does in fact stand on its own. And heck, comparing it to some of the other Marvel properties, it's good (sorry, Iron Fist). At a small-picture scale, there's solid acting (not mind-bending, but solid), and good production value.
November 13, 2017
it's impossible to overstate how leaden and badly structured The Punisher is.
November 16, 2017
The Punisher doesn't have much time for substance. It's simultaneously too much and not enough.
November 16, 2017
The Punisher doesn't always hit the perfect note but you have to give it chops for trying to do something a little different, and eschewing genre conventions. It's just too bloody long.
November 13, 2017
As a narrative about veterans trying to find their place in the world, The Punisher has something to say. But it could have been so much shorter, and its placement in the Marvel universe feels tangential at best.