Daredevil Born Again (Disney+) - March 4, 2025

[Mondragon]

Hype!

 

[jye4ever]

Jesus that looks good.

No Crapdevil here to look at.

 

[choombaz]

Is it possible to die from hype lol?

 

[DParga21]

The only thing I really didn't like about S1 of Punisher was tying the plot into his family's murders. They already convoluted the murders in DD with the undercover sting operation stuff, they didn't need to add yet another layer to it. Should've just had the plot be about Frank finding out that his military unit got up to some pretty nasty stuff, that he was lied to about his missions, making him complicit in it, and Frank wanting revenge for it (with an underlining suggestion that it's all just an excuse for him to start fighting again).

S2 was... okay. I think it got stuck in an awkward position wherein they already greenlit it but Netflix wanted to move on from their Marvel shows by the time it started production, so nobody really cared and the budget got slashed to ribbons. I'll always like Jigsaw's final scene, though, where

Spoiler

Jigsaw tries to have a final bonding moment with Frank but Frank just casually shoots him and walks away.

The biggest problem with Punisher is that he's always, airways going to have to be watered down for a mass audience.
You aren't going to see The Slavers adapted for a television audience, for instance.
You won't see him purposely throw Jigsaw through a window in order to scar him.
You won't see him run over Wolverine with a steamroller.
You won't see him decapitate The Russian and present the head to Ma Gnucci.
They humanize him on screen. Every time. Because you won't get a large enough audience to justify a Punisher film or show if you don't make him more palatable. So e get things like "torturing" a gangster with Popsicles. Or needing to be coaxed into going after criminal again after "retiring".
Bernthal's Punisher is the best one we've gotten on screen, but he's still too watered down for my tastes.