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Post by BackinBlack on Oct 20, 2011 23:36:42 GMT -5
www.superherohype.com/news/articles/168698-the-punisher-heads-to-televisionAfter three feature film versions, Frank Castle is heading to the small screen. Deadline reports that Fox has plans to develop Marvel Comics' "The Punisher" as a television series from former "Criminal Minds" showrunner Edward Allen Bernero. Set up through ABC Studios, "The Punisher" will take on the format of an hourlong police procedural. In this version, Castle will work by day as an NYPD detective and by night as the Punisher, writing the wrongs that he legally can't.
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Post by Spidey 1923 on May 16, 2012 0:32:11 GMT -5
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Post by BackinBlack on May 16, 2012 1:12:40 GMT -5
I don't blame them. Having Frank be in the NYPD while also being the Punisher really screws up the character premise.
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Post by Caveboy0 on May 16, 2012 9:18:44 GMT -5
yeah it doesn't make sense. punisher completely rejects law and order.
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Post by mr. excellent on Oct 17, 2021 15:37:06 GMT -5
Have we seriously never created a thread for Netflix's Punisher show? Maybe I just over looked it. Anyway, Netflix's show with Jon Bernthal is actually pretty good. I'd say the best parts of the show are on par with the best of their other Netflix offerings. It's well known that Charlie Cox and Jon Bernthal's portrayal's are the most praised of all their Marvel series protagonists, and it has been rumored that Marvel is interested in bringing them both back (emphasis on Charlie Cox as of late). Still though, Netflix's Punisher show was impressive in its own right.
The way that the show dealt with PTSD and the U.S.'s treatment of its soldiers when they return from war and are no longer active duty was pretty effective in my opinion. While I wasn't as interested in some of the other subplots, it's Bernthal's performance that keeps me coming back to the show periodically. One particular episode of note is called "Trouble in the Water". It's season 2s third episode, and it's memorable to me because it largely could've stood on its own. In that episode, Frank and a young woman under his care named Rachel* find themselves in police custody a small town jailhouse. The characters in that episode only appear one time that season, but that's all that matters. For the most part, it is written as a standalone adventure, but it still fits within the larger narrative. Assassins come to get Frank and the Rachel at the jail house, and the police are forced to work with Frank or face death. After initially declining, one of their own suffers a shot to the stomach and the station some serious damage. From there, they reluctantly decide to take their chances with Frank and he takes care of the rest. It's clear the episode took its inspiration from old Westerns, and references to this are even made during a pivotal action sequence.
For what its worth, I sincerely hope to see more of Bernthal's Punisher in future Marvel projects.
*Rachel is an alias, I can't remember her actual name.
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Post by brotherandbassist on Nov 8, 2021 9:47:11 GMT -5
I loved it. On par with Daredevil seasons 1 and 3 for me. At least for the first season. Season 2 was okay but it felt more campy and cheesy to me. With the way season 1 ended, there wasn't much else to do with it in my opinion. Once Frank has avenged his family his arc kind of just becomes an anti hero mass murderer doing a step further version of what Batman does lol
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