Netflix is slowly dropping all Marvel series. After Luke Cage, Iron Fist and Daredevel it is assumed that The Punisher and Jessica Jones will also be discontinued. The reason for this is that Disney is planning its own streaming service. So this could be the last appearance of the antihero Frank Castle at Netflix.
Until now there is still no statement that the 2 remaining series will be discontinued. We will see what will will happen. But that shouldn't stop anyone from enjoying the Punisher in its full brutal force.
After what happened in the first season, Frank Castle retired. Far away from New York, in a bar in Utah he witnesses a group of people wants kidnapping a little girl. And as a hero would do, Frank fights his way into what happened as The Punisher. A bloody fight in a hail of bullets, just like you are used to from the antihero. Blood everywhere and corpse...
In the meantime his old soldier comrade Billy Russo, who was beaten to death at the end of season 1, saw the light of day again. But after his coma he seems to remember nothing...
Since his first appearance in Daredevil, the fans wanted to see more of Frank Castle and his sad story. Most likely the actor Jon Bernthal was also one of the reasons, because he plays his role as the revenge angel quite convincing. And so Jon Bernthal reflects the antihero very well in the 2 seasons, which is absolutely worth seeing.
The 2nd season continues what couldn't be completed in the first, but focuses more on the development of Frank Castle, vigilante justice and which way he will go. Besides the smooth action scenes, which are filled with brutality, it's also worth seeing how the antihero has his own principles and remains true to this code. He also has a little young girl as a partner, who seems to do Frank Castle good. Both characters harmonize quite well and we can also catch the Punisher at fatherly decisions, how he wants to protect the girl.
The storylines of the 2nd season are rather less exciting, although they make fun but the stories brake again and again, in which the fire goes out. The story of the side characters could have been told better without one story overlapping the other and slowing the stories down. It sometimes seems that the makers would have problems packing the stories into 13 episodes. It would certainly have been good for the 2nd season if they had told one story after the other, because one story wouldn't be too short and the other wouldn't be long, which is the case. The constant story change without a focus of one doesn't confuse, but it takes away the tension - the makers could have simply split the second season into two parts to tell both main stories and in between they could have easily built up and told the substorys. It seems that the makers didn't want to experiment much and bring the series to a good end.
You can definitely say nothing against the action scenes, they are filled with hail of bullets, bone breakings, dead, corpses and lots of blood. This is The Punisher, the antihero, whose signature is the brutality self-justice.
If this is the end of Frank Castle we don't know yet...
