Kaka

Even though the last season is the weakest of the lot, this is still the best series ever.

Marvel put their heads together and finally made something that takes itself very seriously most of the time and looks serious, too. The King is dead, long live the King, I guess that's how you could describe Jon Bernthal's arrival in the role of the Punisher. Nothing against the way Thomas Jane leaned into it 13 years ago – written off by many right from the start, he wasn't bad in my opinion, but the people around him created a "mass" that didn’t work. The Punisher series is aware of this, and has learned from the mistakes and criticisms that were levelled at the original film. The creators put the kettle on and made Bernthal a badass passionate whose rage and screaming are as intense as his tears and bleeding from all the stabbing, slashing and gunshot wounds he sustains over 13 episodes. The whole thing is dramatic, intense, extremely bloody and deftly shot. Maybe 2 or 3 episodes are unnecessary and we can think the same about at least one storyline, but the whole thing is still pretty damn good and has everything you can expect from a top product: good characters, family values, criticism of the US and questioning the military system, terrorism, etc. The second season, if there is one, will have it very hard.

A perfect "based on a true story" blend of raw reality, Soviet feeling, perfect cast, and exemplary work with suspense and script. It's certainly not something to revisit and look for alternative paths and subtle script twists, like Game of Thrones, but the ambitions here are completely different: to remember, never to forget, never to repeat; and they managed that to absolute perfection. Although some moments are glossed over, they are outweighed by the urgency and narrative value of a deadly catastrophe in the history of mankind. On par with Schindler’s List.