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4 or 5 episodes too many


This should have been condensed down to 8-9 episodes. Just a little too much of Micros family,too much of Billy and the female agent. It felt stretched intentionally,and thus comes across as filler. A concentrated version of this season would have been great. Still a good show,but I don't think any of these Marvel series need 13 episodes.

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Agreed. Six or seven would not just suffice, but would improve them all drastically.

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Just a little too much of Micros family


Thank you! While I see many people complaining that the female agent had too much screen time,I thought I was the only one who felt the same way about Micro's family...my God, Frank had more scenes with them than he did shooting people!

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I agree. The only Marvel shows who's 13 episodes seasons worked were Daredevil season 1 and Jessica Jones season 1. And those did have moments of feeling dragging on. But I'd say every other season of all their shows are 4 episodes too long.

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So agree that all the Marvel series are too long by about 3 or 4 episodes, the only one I felt that didn't drag was Daredevil S1.

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I know a lot of you say this but with such a long wait between seasons I do like more content.

I was fine with Billy and Micro's family...although Frank and Micro's wife was a little awkward..But it all gave the characters more depth.

The only thing I really would've liked a little less of was that lunatic Lewis.
I guess the actor did a good job because I found him so distasteful and felt not the slightest bit of empathy for him.
He didn't die soon enough.

And DareDevil can have this many episodes and as many seasons as they'll make and I'll be happy.

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Yeah the 13 episode rule hampers a lot of these shows.

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I agree. Ten episodes would have been more than enough

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I even thought Defenders dragged a little at ten eps, but I liked it anyway.

I love Bernthal's Castle, but still found myself skipping through large portions of this series

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Yeah, Jon Bernthal is the perfect choice for Punisher, there's definitely about 4 episodes that were quite slow.

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Netflix don't have a choice. The deal with Marvel means they have to buy 13 episodes. Marvel won't let them have the characters otherwise. It's part of the reason Luke Cage and Iron Fist were cancelled. Netflix wanted to do less episodes.

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