 One patch, two patch, panty and dime. Hey guys, so I just finished the first season of Punisher and it was pretty interesting to see that there was gonna be one done by about the Punisher character considering apparently it wasn't part of the original television series lineup, but there was such a huge outpour of alike and appreciation for the character of Punisher in season 2 of Daredevil that they thought to give him his own season. However, because it was not originally planned, you can see it in the details. This is a very basic story in terms of just what happens with Frank and the events that happen in this season. It's nothing different from any other kind of action revenge movie and that's obviously because they had less than a year to put it together. So I'm not gonna really go at them for that. Like it's so far as being shown for me for see Stranger Things season 2. Having less than a year to write and shoot a show, it obviously that rushness doesn't work. Happened with True Detective season 2 as well. I'm basing this on as mainly the portrayal of the characters, how the events unfold and actually the side aspect, which actually I found quite interesting because it really does focus on military groups, what happens after their time overseas, what happens when they come back trying to rehabilitate. At first, some people were kind of wondering why there was so much focus on that. And while it's not a core story essential, it is probably one of the more deeper parts of the show just talking about this because this is a real thing. This is what actual veterans have to deal with, re-assimilating themselves into society. And I thought those parts were really good and very respectful. As well as just John Berenthal's killing it as the Punisher. He's great, which actually is really funny for me was the first five minutes of the season is him finishing his mission of killing all the gang members associated with the death of his family. And then he casts away the Punisher. And the first episode's great because they're building up to that chain, that Sledgehammer, the whole episode. The violence in this is pretty, pretty severe. There's a lot of blood. And a lot of people were actually kind of on the fence about how much gore was used. But this is the Punisher. If you read any of the Max comics, I was surprised that Disney let most of this gore in. As for the action scenes, again, due to how quick this show was put together, some of them are not the best. Some of them are not even like I was hoping for something John Wickie, not like complete like John Wick. But a little bit of inspiration. There is barely any sort of gunfights, I would say. There's a part where where Berenthal goes on a killing spree in a memory of Kandahar. And it's all shot of him and people are just coming at him, but you don't see any, but it's a really badly shot action scene in my opinion because they do these weird fade things in between. It totally takes you out of the entire situation. So yeah, the gunfights in this I admit were not as good as I was expecting them to be. The physical fights were great. Some of the interactions between him and Mikro were so good. The humor and the chemistry between the two was really good. And the side stories with Asia Madani was kind of interesting. But again, she was just kind of a side filler to the events of her half. And I'll say that this season has a better sort of bad guy idea than Luke Cage did, but however Luke Cage had a better villain through half of the season than this show does throughout its entire season. There's just shifty CIA douchebag. There is this really random turn through one of the characters in this. You know he was going to be bad, but it's just such a random turn. Like he goes from being a really, really nice guy throughout the majority of his introduction. And then all of a sudden he's like, he's evil. It's like when the president in 24, when Jack found out that he was bad, he instantly just started doing really evil shit, really obviously evil shit. Like he didn't keep his character under wraps. It's just that's what it felt like. And I thought that really took me out of it. Also the pacing. The pacing is so goddamn slow. There was a lot of episodes that do not need to be in this. This did not need to be 13 seasons. They are dragging it and you can feel it every time it's being dragged. But again, this was made in less than a year. So I'm not going to give them that. Mind you, I have no idea where this takes place in terms of the timeline. I don't know if it's before defenders, after defenders. They don't really do a good job of explaining that because they don't explain how long it took Frank to kill all the gangsters after he left. But either way, I enjoyed it. Barenthol's great. Admittedly is very light on material. There are some character changes that are extremely really random. There are aspects that are very, they're not fleshed out. However, anything that has to do with the veterans, all that storyline stuff was probably my favorite stuff. Once he goes on the revenge rampage, like I was entertained, but anything that had to do with the veterans group and particularly two individuals I was always very interested in. But in the end, I enjoyed the Punisher series. I admit I'll watch it again with my girlfriend because I know she really enjoys the Punisher character. But otherwise, this is probably one of the least memorable seasons of the Netflix series. It's better than Iron Fist. No, that for sure. But I couldn't imagine watching this over any of the Daredevil series or any of the other ones to be honest just because of the lack of anything that really happens in this. So but in the end, my rating for the Punisher is a 4 out of 7. It's an all right time. You'll enjoy yourself, but admittedly at the end, you'll be like, well, I'd probably won't watch that again. Anyways guys, I hope you enjoyed this review. See you guys next time.