Shawn ROASTS Netflix’s Punisher Season 2

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I had been anticipating Netflix’s Punisher Season 2 ever since I saw the last episode of the first season. Unfortunately, all of the promising storylines and character development of the first season were pushed to the back burner so Netflix and Disney’s producers could push a gynocentric narrtive about how SKRONG the WAHMEN were as they used Frank’s show as a soapbox to take potshots at Donald Trump. I didn’t think it’d be possible to emasculate a character as masculine as The Punisher, but here we are. The Simp levels on this show are WAY over 9000.

Punisher Season 2 runs off the rails within the first five minutes of its first episode. After being cleared by Agent Madani last season, Frank under the new alias Pete Castiglione is riding in his battle van on a road trip to start a new life. He’s stops off in Detroit for a beer at a roadhouse bar. And after meeting the sexy bar owner he runs into trouble. And I don’t mean the bad guys. Frank’s Simp levels start ratcheting up to the 5000 level when a guy hits on the her owner and Frank immediately starts playing the White Knight to defend her honor. After a hook up, Frank decides to drive her home where he finds out she’s got a son. And decides to take everyone out for pancakes.

Damn. Just Damn. The Punisher dating a Single Mom. Never thought I’d see one of Marvel’s most badass heroes turned into a SIMP but here we are.  

After all of Frank’s simping, later the second season’s storyline begins when Frank returns to the bar and Amy, a teenager on the run comes in. She’s being followed by some Christian cult members who want what’s in her backpack or something. They confront her and Frank goes into the ladies room. Not to put on his skull vest to become The Punisher. No, he puts on a Ben Cooper™ Cape and Mickey Mouse Galoshes to play Captain-Save-A-Hoe.

*FACEPALM* Somebody get Frank a Copy of STOP SIMPIN. And have him read my blog Why Real Men avoid Single Mothers.

After Frank’s Simp levels go over 9000 he kills the cult members and saves Amy, then Frank takes down more cult members and his possible girlfriend winds up getting herself shot trying to play a SKRONG WAHMON. Frank winds up shooting it out trying to get her to the hospital and we start the Billy Russo subplot and the Simp levels start heading the levels we usually see on the CW’s Flash. While Agent Mahdani who thinks he’s faking, Krista, the psychiatrist who is treating him has a love jones for him.

Great way to cuck a bad guy there Netflix. I see you didn’t learn ANYTHING from the disaster that was Iron Fist Season 2.

Meanwhile in Michigan Frank is on the lam with Amy and after a run-in with John Pilgrim (A CHRISTIAN SIMP) and the cult members he gets arrested. He calls Agent Mahdani to bail him out and after she hangs up on him just to show how SKRONG she is. But after a change of heart she takes a chopper to Michigan to link Frank’s disjointed Trump-Bashing plot to her equally disjointed Jigsaw storyline.

As Frank returns to New York and the second season progresses Billy’s Russo’s story becomes a subplot bogged down by gynocentrism. And instead of a complex story about an incredibly handsome man coping with the loss of his looks and career starting down the dark road to becoming a top crime boss, we get a shallow predictable story about a crippled female psychiatrist falling in love with a sociopath and Agent Madani seeking to reclaim a part of herself she lost when Billy shot her in the head in the first season by taking him down. It saddened me to see Jigsaw turned into a CUCK and a complete SIMP in the later episodes and completely emasculated by Agent Madani (in an effort to show how SKRONG she was) and then executed by Frank in an anti-climatic fashion I’ve ever seen a bad guy taken down. Yeah, Frank accepts his role as The Punisher. But the road to him discovering himself and his mission is tarnished due to the gynocentric undertones of this dreadful second season.

Punisher Season 2 had all the elements of what could’ve been a great follow up to Season 1. Unfortunately, instead of executing the story that had been set up organically in Season 1 Netflix and Disney decided to inject gynocentrism, feminism, and identity politics in Frank’s story and suck all the energy out of it. Just as the action starts to ratchet up, some crap sequence featuring SKRONG women like Madani, the psychiatrist and Amy slows it down leading to the show becoming a jigsaw puzzle of disjointed storylines and uneven character development that never becomes a complete image to the viewer.

What does a billionaire’s gay Senator son have to do with a Christian Cult run by John Pilgrim? How does all this connect to Billy Russo? Sadly the writers of this show are too busy trying to take a jab at Donald Trump and White Christians to answer the questions they propose or give us a complete and cohesive story.

And they’re so busy trying to push so-called strong women that they take the show into levels of STUPID that are mind boggling. Did we need that scene of Amy kicking another girl in the crotch?

Pure penis envy there. Plus, men and women are biologically different. A kick to a girl’s vagina isn’t going to hurt like a kick to a guy’s tesitcles.

Sadly In their efforts to push strong women, Netflix and Disney completely emasculate The Punisher and Jigsaw. And instead of us seeing these military trained men using their survival skills, we get women like Madani and the psychiatrist creating co-dependent relationships with them. In the second season we see both Frank and Billy staying with women like some thug street dudes in the hood and living on the women’s terms.

Complete and utter bullshit that emasculates both men and is completely out of character for any man who has been in the military.

I wanted to see both these military men using their training and survival skills. Billy using his to build his criminal empire, Frank using his to take him down. That was the story we didn’t get to see in Punisher Season 2 because the producers were so obsessed with giving us so-called strong women that they didn’t focus on giving us a story that was true to the mission and spirit of the Punisher in the comics.

In spite of the gynocentrism, feminism, and identity politics, the acting In Punisher Season 2 is top notch. Jon Berenthal does a great job portraying Frank Castle. He gives him depth and dimension, and we see a great humanity in him as he shows compassion to those who deserve it in his War on Crime. It’s those moments with Amy or the woman at the bar that show us that Frank isn’t just a cold-blooded killer, that he’s a man looking to protect the innocent from those who believe that they are above the law and beyond it.

Amber Rose Revah is solid as Madani and Ben Barnes does what he can with Russo/Jigsaw’s jumbled mess of a story. Giorgia Wingham steals secenes as Amy and is so good I have to say she’s an actress to look out for in future roles. She’s got all the talent to be a star.

I was deeply disappointed with Netflix’s Punisher Season 2. While it had great acting and compelling action sequences, the writing was just a jigsaw puzzle of uneven storylines that don’t really give you a reason to care. Instead of trying to shoehorn feminism and potshots at Donald Trump into the show, Netflix and Disney should’ve focused on telling a story that was true to the characters and the source material. If they made Jigsaw the main villain of Season 2 and had the show revolve around him making his own militia that terrorized NYC in a crime spree only The Punisher could stop, they coulda had a CLASSIC. But instead, we get 13 forgettable episodes that never actualize the potential of the story that was set up in the first season finale.