The Punisher is well on its way to being Netflix’s most thematically complete Marvel show yet.
Spoilers ahead in our episode 10 review…
This review contains spoilers.
1.10 Virtue Of The Vicious
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Another great episode from the people at Marvel-Netflix!
What are the odds?
I loved that aspect of it.
Is he a cautionary tale?
Evidence that some people just dont have what it takes?
Or is he proof that Frank is just a much hardier soul?
The character moments made the episode really worth it, though, particularly between Karen and Frank.
The most emotionally brutal moment of the series so far.
All that said, Im not sure things were made any better by the multiple perspectives approach.
There was no puzzle to solve for the viewer other than what happened to Frank?
Has it all been worth putting the Micro/Rawlins plots essentially on hold for two episodes?
Im not so sure.
And then Lewis took care of himself in the aforementioned depressing manner.
It kind of feels like that final scene needed Curtis there to give Lewis arc some weight.
Its just in this case, it was words.
Hes been around in the Netflix MCU since Day 1 (that is,Daredevil1.01).
Read Jamesreview of the previous episode, Front Toward Enemy, here.
