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“Marvel’s the Punisher” has it all in this New York City-based drama w sorta good meets super evil.
The elevated levels of violence in “The Punisher” are not entirely surprising.
Netflix last month opted to cancel the show’s New York Comic Con debut and push back its release date because it felt it was “Inappropriate” so soon after the Las Vegas mass shooting at a country music festival.
What about now? It’s unlikely t was ever going to be an opportune time for “The Punisher” to be released after the Oct. 1 tragedy given that t’s been at least 35 mass shootings since then, according to recent reports.
For “The Punisher” to make any sort of lasting impact after its association with one of the worst mass shootings in American history, it would have to be a masterpiece.
It’s unfortunate because the show is well-written and Jon Bernthal is fantastic as Castle, the Afghanistan war veteran turned vigilante.
He’s another avenging antihero from the Marvel-Netflix collaboration whose foibles feed his strengths, and whose campaign for justice in the face of government corruption speaks to the frustrations of the 99%. But the story itself isn’t dynamic enough to punch through all the cultural baggage this show is unfairly saddled with.
Displays of molten anger are so commonplace on and off screen – cable dramas, Roy Moore rallies, every third comment on your Facebook feed – that no matter how hard “The Punisher” swings, it still has a difficult time connecting with rage alone.
“The Punisher,” which also stars Ebon Moss-Bachrach as hacker David Lieberman/Micro, Ben Barnes as CIA man Billy Russo, Deborah Ann Woll as journalist Karen Page, and Amber Rose Revah as agent Dinah Madani, is the wrong show at the wrong time.