‘The Punisher’ Season 2 Review: Bullets for Brains

My, what a prickly subject The Punisher is.

Every time the character is reborn, in comics or on screen, the conversation turns to the value, and limits, of violence in entertainment.

The upcoming second season of Netflix’s Punisher series is bound to rekindle those discussions once again, especially in a time when mass shootings are an endless American terror and the debate over the boundaries and enforcement over the Second Amendment rages stronger than ever.

With the thorny conflicts of the real world set like a snare around it, the discourse surrounding properties like The Punisher grows pricklier in …

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