Awake not Woke!

Smashing.

First series: fantastic writing, concise, meaningful dialogs, tight photography. Found it superior to Daredevil. The Punisher is less super-hero, more gritty film noir. Well, there's still Hollywood trauma recovery, and Hollywood balistic, which are somehow more jarring in a more realistic context. I would say the purely action part is inferior to the Ennis run of the comic, as Castle can be something of a meathead, whereas Ennis' Punisher was a cold, calculated, tactical killing machine. Characters are great, no effort skipped in developing even tertiary characters, and the acting is rock solid. Still, white men can be good or bad, but all bad characters are white men. It's Hollywood, baby. Second series, well, introduces a single mom love interest (young boy, sort of makes sense in Castle's case), and a sassy, mean, juvenile girl-boss. The kind to give lip when she's just been rescued from assassination, and is even further out of her depth than she is up her own arse. In short, an unlikeable moron. An unfortunate choice for someone present in most scenes. She does get better over time, but only marginally. Far less screen time, which is an improvement. The female mercs start kicking less arse in the second half, because a 100 pounds disadvantage is one hell of a disadvantage. Tactically speaking, everybody has a two-digits IQ; the "woods at night" scene is particularly egregious. Honestly, it feels like they started to wokify the whole thing, and thought better of it halfway through. The new actors are, well, probably less expensive. At least, Stewart is excellent. Photography still top-notch. Music's good. Alice In Chains, always nice. The writing is still decent. Sort of the Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Punisher style, with a side dish of Harley Quin (although Mr J is rather unconvincing). Still excellent, but definitely a sophomore slump.

Nothing woke but I did exit out at the 45 minute mark. The acting is fine and the cinematography and time period is well done. The main problem here is that it plays out more like a docudrama than an actual movie. There isn't really any plot or main storyline to follow and for some reason they decided to tell most of it from the point of view of one of the club members wives. That is the big problem is the character of Kathy the narrator. This might be one of the all time most annoying brain bleed inducing voices ever, and you will here it A LOT! The movie isn't so much bad as it is just so pointless, meandering and dull. Like a wannabe Scorsese on valium.

I didn't notice anything overly woke other than the ships first mate in real life was male and was gender swapped in the movie to female for no reason other than DEI. The acting is mostly good and as far as I was able to tell the story seemed to be very accurate to the true events. None of the usual overblown Hollywood 'lets make it better and add a bunch of things that never happened' nonsense. It's a good story and an entertaining watch.

Swapped gender roles with plenty of DEI

White men are either inept or corrupt. White women are powerful and cruel, you know like "the patriarchy". The black female lead is the most intellectually superior, altruistic human on Earth. Plenty of feminist, independent women and stereotypical LGB representation. The brilliant alien can't seem to function or do his work without a stream of even more brilliant females to help him tie his shoes. Every facet of this show is colored by typical woke, feminist, DEI programming. No surprises though. This was made by CBS Studios. CBS Studios produced Star Trek: Discovery, which has been praised for its inclusion of LGBTQ+ characters, as well as shows that tackle issues of race and gender, like The Equalizer or The Good Fight.