TV #5 of 2025: Marvel’s The Punisher, season 2 This was the last piece of Netflix’s old Defendersverse (2015 – 2019) that I hadn’t seen before, both because I hadn’t felt very invested in the first season of the show and because at the time, the parent company seemed to be drawing a hard line …
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TV #5 of 2018: Marvel’s The Punisher, season 1 I don’t care much for either the beginning or end of this show (which seem to tell us little we didn’t already know about the character), but the middle section is surprisingly solid. I’m also really impressed with Ben Barnes’s acting and accent work — I …
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