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Originally Posted by _Drogo_
Same as Eltin. Action scenes are great but the forced angst of Russo and Madani is just awful to sit through. Just stop already.
To tie in with my complaint about them keeping too many characters alive, look at what they did with Russo. They had him survive the first season to be a pointless secondary villain who mostly mopes around and then bizarrely the show tries to redeem him a little because he's in love with fake Harley Quinn? But he also ran a hit squad that murdered a bunch of innocent people and he tries to kill Modani, there was no arc there.
I really thought he and Pilgrim would team up, it seemed like they were headed there, but no. Pilgrim's underworld connections were just the setup to a fight scene, Russo's gang was just doing unrelated freelance crime until their attempt to bully the Punisher into being afraid of the dark(????) failed and they all left town.
Also Modani was written to be an absolute trackwreck of an idiot, but I don't think they intended that. Sort of like Daredevil's dip**** partner they don't seem to be able to write "flawed sidekick" without going into "full on liability, both in the narrative and in the meta of the show existing as entertainment"