I will try to be brief but I needed to write this because I feel really let down. I LOVED season 1. I have been telling everybody who might like this kind of show to watch it because it is incredible (that is coming from a person who is usually very judgmental about movies/shows).
Then season 2 happens.
First - Jon Bernthal is great as The Punisher! Next - my feelings are inline with TRinzler's review. The writing really lacked and no brutality can make up for it. My biggest problem - Dinah's character is dumbed down to ridiculous levels. She is a decorated soldier and a freaking chief special agent in Homeland Security but apparently that does not stop her to spill sensitive information left and right, to completely lack any judgement of character and to be utterly useless in anything she does. How are we supposed to believe this can actually happen? Then there is the BIG problem of Dinah watching Billy and Krista (aka the hot doctor, because everybody needs to be hot, even the freaking Jigsaw) for months. She says she never believed Billy and can clearly see that the doctor is highly attached to him. Billy disappears - no one even thinks of putting a surveillance on the ONE PERSON HE FEELS MOST CONNECTED TO? COME ON! Then on top of everything Dinah goes into Krista's house where Billy lives, WHILE HE IS IN THE OTHER ROOM and she cannot tell anything is wrong? What kind of chief special agent that should be?
The next thing is the utterly incompetent NYPD with the man in charge - Mahoney. I already mentioned how NO ONE thinks of keeping an eye on the doctor? Okay! But lets go back in time a bit. Apparently the city of New York does not mind spending literally hundreds of thousands if not million/s on a dangerous criminal, who is by all evidence guilty for FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION???? The best HOT DOCTOR??? What? Then the exemplary NYPD lets this dangerous criminal literally walk out of the hospital with his PJ on? Mahoney succeeds in blaming everybody else for the death and destruction but not once he blames himself for his utter incompetence? I don't even want to get into how every 4th grader, looking at the scene, where Frank shot the 3 women, can tell that the bullets have come from outside/down and there would be no line of sight inside the room.
I am sorry to say this but the writing is ridiculous and is irritating me that they did that to this show.
Conclusion: I would stick with season 1 and hopefully they do something better in the future! Jon Bernthal is great - this role is made for him! I am not sure why people liked Daredevil 3 - but I see the same problems here that I saw there - just poor writing. Netflix needs to take its time, instead of juicing subscriber growth! Thank you for reading and have a nice watch!
Then season 2 happens.
First - Jon Bernthal is great as The Punisher! Next - my feelings are inline with TRinzler's review. The writing really lacked and no brutality can make up for it. My biggest problem - Dinah's character is dumbed down to ridiculous levels. She is a decorated soldier and a freaking chief special agent in Homeland Security but apparently that does not stop her to spill sensitive information left and right, to completely lack any judgement of character and to be utterly useless in anything she does. How are we supposed to believe this can actually happen? Then there is the BIG problem of Dinah watching Billy and Krista (aka the hot doctor, because everybody needs to be hot, even the freaking Jigsaw) for months. She says she never believed Billy and can clearly see that the doctor is highly attached to him. Billy disappears - no one even thinks of putting a surveillance on the ONE PERSON HE FEELS MOST CONNECTED TO? COME ON! Then on top of everything Dinah goes into Krista's house where Billy lives, WHILE HE IS IN THE OTHER ROOM and she cannot tell anything is wrong? What kind of chief special agent that should be?
The next thing is the utterly incompetent NYPD with the man in charge - Mahoney. I already mentioned how NO ONE thinks of keeping an eye on the doctor? Okay! But lets go back in time a bit. Apparently the city of New York does not mind spending literally hundreds of thousands if not million/s on a dangerous criminal, who is by all evidence guilty for FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION???? The best HOT DOCTOR??? What? Then the exemplary NYPD lets this dangerous criminal literally walk out of the hospital with his PJ on? Mahoney succeeds in blaming everybody else for the death and destruction but not once he blames himself for his utter incompetence? I don't even want to get into how every 4th grader, looking at the scene, where Frank shot the 3 women, can tell that the bullets have come from outside/down and there would be no line of sight inside the room.
I am sorry to say this but the writing is ridiculous and is irritating me that they did that to this show.
Conclusion: I would stick with season 1 and hopefully they do something better in the future! Jon Bernthal is great - this role is made for him! I am not sure why people liked Daredevil 3 - but I see the same problems here that I saw there - just poor writing. Netflix needs to take its time, instead of juicing subscriber growth! Thank you for reading and have a nice watch!