Trying to live quietly under another name, Frank Castle picks up a teenager in trouble and stops being able to pretend.
The second season opens with Castle in a bar in the middle of nowhere, and the question it puts to him is whether the Punisher was a phase or a person. He saves a girl who is being hunted, and the answer arrives by the end of the first episode.
It is the last of the Netflix run to be produced, and the character came back years later in a very different production.
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Released: January 18, 2019