Moore), now working to support soldiers suffering from PTSD, and Billy Russo (Ben Barnes), now the slick head of a private security concern. Castle has to reconnect with former brothers-in-arms Curtis (Jason R. Frank, who works better alone, finds himself in an unlikely partnership and almost a friendship. This time, he has an ally in a former NSA analyst (Ebon Moss-Bachrach’s Micro, who I only called “ Desi” in my notes because of Moss-Bachrach’s Girls role), whose family thinks that he’s dead, too. The only thing stopping me from saying it could all be cut out entirely is that it has an over-the-top payoff.)Īnyway, Frank is about to discover that he did a lot of punishing for nothing, or at least that his punishing was only partial, because it turns out that the death of his family relates to his black ops military service in Afghanistan and he’s gonna have to start punishing again. (The mirror stuff is actually hilarious, stretching into the dialogue as well. It’s a metaphor, just like all of the time he spends standing in front of his bathroom mirror staring into his reflection and his soul, something that happens so frequently here that the fastest way to trim an hour from the show might be cutting mirror scenes in half.
Six months later everybody thinks Frank Castle is dead and, having grown a prodigious beard, he’s taken a new name and landed a job on a construction crew where even though more modern equipment is available, he’s able to take a sledgehammer to concrete walls. Adapted by Steve Lightfoot ( Hannibal), The Punisher begins with Frank Castle ( Bernthal) seemingly completing his mission for revenge against the mobsters who killed his family and hanging up his costume.
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