Finished over the weekend, and I liked it. Very much up near the top of the various Netflix series for me. In full disclosure I read a lot of the various Punisher titles in the past. Despite that I didn’t recall that Jigsaw’s real name was Billy Russo, so it wasn’t until the mirror scrapping that I thought, “what’s the bet he lives and becomes Jigsaw?” :smack:
I really enjoyed Jon Bernthal’s portrayal of Frank, I think he captured him very well.
A question I have though, I’m still not 100% certain on why Rawlins attempted to kill Frank in the first place. As I understand it Frank went home from Iraq, and all was fine. Was it the video originally kicked upstairs by Lieberman that set it all off? They suddenly decided Frank was a loose end? Despite them suppressing the video and apparently killing Lieberman?
Hmm. I presume Billy knew it was Frank who actually pulled the trigger. Which I don’t suppose precludes Frank from being the one to give it to Lieberman.
That footage was supposed to be a hidden camera? :dubious:
It was footage from their body cams, but everyone else had turned theirs off. However, that makes it silly to think it was Frank since, being the shooter, the angle from his camera would be different. And you’d expect everyone else to know it was Gunner just as quickly as Frank did, since he knew who was standing in that part of the room.
I just finished watching it and I have mixed feelings about it. The brutality, especially at the end, was hard to watch, but the way they portrayed a lot of the problems of the different characters due to their situation (veterans, single parent of a “traitor”, etc) was good. And the relationship between the two leads worked in a bit of a different way than you see in “buddy” movies.
Overall, I think it is one of the better Netflix series
I don’t how you viewed the series, but at least while watching on a PC, there is a Skip Intro button that shows up when the Title Sequence comes up, so I can only say that I saw it once.
Intros were dropped on broadcast tv because networks discovered people were switching channels to see what else was on; they made them shorter and shorter, or switched to burying them minutes into the show when viewers had committed to watching the entire ep.
With streaming, that rationale is out the window, so we’ll see a comeback for stuff that is developed for streaming. At least they give you the option to skip. I liked the Punisher intro more than Daredevil’s dripping red thingy.
Finished it. Not enjoyed a Marvel series this much since Jessica Jones.
Why the hell was Frank dreaming of hot steamy love with his wife, as he is being tortured. Was it symbolism? Or, “hey, we have a hot chick in the cast, lets find an excuse to get her to divest her clothing”. :rolleyes:
I found Madani, annoying, The actress is not that good, and her scenes were more eye-rolling than enjoyable. Plus, her complexion kept changing. From very swarthy to rather pale. Sometimes in the same scene. They obviously did not do her makeup continiity right.
I think he was disassociating. More or less taking himself out of his body to distance himself from the pain, and also keeping himself and his rage focused focused on, “these are the fuckers who took her from me”.
Her character was high int, low wis. She’d do things like figure out how their comms were being jammed, and then instead of, y’know, resorting to cell phones, she leapt in a car by herself to go track down whoever was stealing the weaponry. She figured out her office was being bugged by ultra-high-level CIA folks, and came up with a false operation that instead of, y’know, relying on snipers covering all exits, depended on putting all her people wearing minimal armor behind a bunch of cardboard boxes. She figured out that her lover was a bad guy, and instead of, y’know, playing him, she brought him in for an “interrogation” where she gave away everything she knew without getting anything from him.
Her follow-through on her findings was unbelievably poor. But I don’t think we, the audience, were supposed to find her anything but a brilliant agent, in the same way that we were supposed to think Iron Fist was a wise and competent martial artist.
I didn’t mind the actress, but goddamn was her character written to be a jackass.
