Review: Jon Bernthal's Punisher Can't Elevate Netflix's Middling 'Daredevil' Season 2

Powered by a visceral display of bone-crunching violence, including spurting blood, ferociously bruising blows, and broken limbs, “Marvel’s Daredevil” season two is, without question, a physically punishing experience. “Daredevil” pulls no punches and ups the ante of brutality, further earning the title of a kind of rougher, “Marvel after dark” TV show. Unfortunately, the “adult”-themed content mostly ends there; the Hell’s Kitchen-set show may be smaller-scale than its blockbuster superhero counterparts, but that doesn’t make it any more soulful or human.

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However, the sound of cracking bones and torn ligaments aren’t the only on-screen violence you'll see and hear while watching the sophomore season. That timbre is also echoed in the show’s writers room, where beating you over the head with clunky dialogue and heavy-handed diatribes on guilt, morality, motives, and good vs. evil, is just as common as Daredevil’s...