• I have a hard time believing a cop would hassle a white veteran supporting the Second Amendment. Also where did Lewis get such a detailed knowledge of protest law?

If you’ve been on the internet in the past 2 years you understand the connotations of the term “cuck”

It’s a pretty important ritual for women as it reduces the risk of UTIs

Oh it was always obvious, but a comic book show has to hit its beats even when you see them coming

Was this the episode where Madini and Russo have sex and it’s Russo who gets up to pee immediately after?

It’s there in the closed captioning.

Insofar as the Marvel world isn’t ours, I think we’re meant to believe that Rawlins was ignorant of PMCs or they literally did not exist before Cerberus, and that after Kandahar and the heroin smuggling he and Russo invented the concept so they could continue their wetwork in civilian life.

Honestly, given how the show handles other aspects of reactionary elements’ cynical exploitation of the military, I was somewhat surprised that it doesn’t address the current event of Erik Prince publicly making a case for turning over most if not all overseas military operations to the private sector. He’s a big…

Spoilers for the next few episodes I guess!**** As I’d alluded to in yesterday’s episode review, historical eras have their different “safe” villains for action schlock. Nazis in the 1930s and 40s, Soviet stalinists in the Cold War period, the IRA in the 90s. After 9/11 the list splinters a bit. You’ve got Arab…

I think it’s in the next episode where Stein asks who names their kid Gunner

Lewis is a character who doesn’t trust anybody who suggests that he might have a problem, so he isolates himself from them. The NRA dude is the guy who suggests the world is his problem, so he gravitates toward that guy and his self-serving paranoia. The scenes with his dad are also instructive, as (iirc) he never…

I’d disagree with you on the growth, actually. Frank stays fundamentally the same character but he goes from not caring about anybody to caring about (a few) other people, which is a growth arc.

Without being a Punisher nerd with a regard for canon, I’d say that I’d rather have an interesting character than a particularly badass one. A character with no connections to any other characters is a character without life, that can’t carry a story. Granted, Punisher in general might not be interested in character…

I’d say that Frank’s care for Micro and his situation comes much later. His primary drive was always revenge for himself.

Comics Frank Castle isn’t a terribly interesting character so we lucked out in having showrunners and an actor who wanted to do more with the concept.

Whoa Kinja overhaul.

You’re thinking of Hammer.

This show’s an odd animal. I likened it to Ray Donovan last episode and there’s some of that there, though it gets shed as we’re mercifully spared soft-focus memories beyond a certain point. It’s a better show than I was expecting, largely because it lets other characters be the emotional core of the show. And despite…

I’m up to episode 11 and without spoiling anything, I can confirm that Karen brings what every fan of the Netflix Marvelverse was baying at the moon for - her next-level newspaper editorials.

Finally, a show for people who just could not get enough Ray Donovan