u/TheGreatMason

As a deep Naples conoisseur, it is pretty clear to me that Gomorrah is not a documentary on the city, but an attempt to show life entirely from the perspective of a street camorra thug. Everything you see is what he/she see/feels/goes through. It's almost like a painting in that regard, a piece of art. The darkness of the place is as much a representation of the internal life of the criminal than it is of places like Vele di Scampia and similar spots.

However, more than once, I had to find myself explain to Gomorra watchers that the city of Naples has actually a significantly lower murder rate than Baltimore, Chicago, and even New York and LA, that it also has way nicer (either touristic or residentially wealthier) areas and suburban towns, and the fact that in the real world 70% of those who die on the show actually get arrested and sometimes even rat each other out to the police/prosecutors.

That is because, unlike shows like The Wire, The Sopranos etc, Gomorrah CHOOSES not to include the police/judiciary/normal people angle. So it leaves it to the maturity of the viewer to understand this. But are viewers these days mature enough to really understand what these type of shows are trying to say?

1. The Blip: Half of New York disappears for 5 years.
2. Loki's Attack to New York: Alien invasion and massive destruction across Manhattan.
3. Void terror: Shadow-horror mayhem and psychological apocalypse in NYC.
4. Mayor Fisk anti-vigilante takeover and anti-Fisk rebellion: Authoritarian control, militarized crackdowns, Northern Star's sinking, criminal use of the free port, fear across the city, all leading to the revolution at the courthouse.
5. The Hand war in New York: Ancient cult warfare involving assassinations, earthquakes, kidnapped hostages being drained for blood to fuel the Hand’s resurrection/immortality practices, underground infrastructure manipulation, and the collapse of Midland Circle
6. Multiversal incidents at the Statue of Liberty: Reality-breaking chaos involving alternate-universe villains.
7. Wilson Fisk's FBI corruption scandal: corruption, assassinations, citywide institutional rot, Bullseye's massacres at the New York Bulletin and Father Lantom's church
8. Kilgrave terror campaign: Mind-control murders and invisible psychological terror.
9. The Punisher revenge war: From the Central Park massacre to him massacring the gangs in revenge to his war against the Blacksmith, Russo and Rawlins
10. Battle of Harlem: Hulk and Abomination tear through Harlem

And this all happened within a time period of around 15-20 years. Imagine somebody born in the 616 Universe willingly deciding to move to New York city LOL

PUNISHER SPECIAL SPOILERS AHEAD!

Jean will be caged in some maximum security facility set up by the DoDC, but using her long-distance telekinetic powers she has been "studying" Frank Castle for a while and, impressed with his ability to wage one-man wars against huge power structures, wants to use him to break her free.

In The Punisher Special, she was the one turning his PTSD negative visions (Curt, Karen and his family provoking him) into positive ones (the same people comforting him) to prevent him from committing suicide or lose the fight against the criminals sent by Gnucci.

She will go on to use these visions to manipulate him into finding her maximum security prison and break her free.

I love how, with very low-effort, he is able to create total mayehm and mass fear, in both good and bad characters (Fisk and all his goons are also scared s**tless everytime he shows up).

He does this repeateadly in all 3 seasons he is appeared so far.

The only two characters that get close to that aura are the OG Winter Soldier and The Punisher from DD Season 2, though they were turned into that by adult-life events, while Pointdexter is a natural psycho who was like that since childhood.

It is genuine fun for him, unlike the other two.

You want me to believe a guy like that can't break free from some silly little handcuffs tied to a silly little bed?

In prison they had to use a special vest to avoid him breaking free and murder every prison officer (and he still managed to do it).

One could say he didn't escape until Matt set him loose because he is in his repantace phase (which I am sure is not going to last long) and decided not to but it's still disappointing how Matt and Karen, who are supposed to be the leaders of New York's anti-Fisk resistance, would think those handcuffs would hold.

You need Hannibal Lecter's level of containment for a guy like this. He is a way bigger physical threat than some people in the Raft, like Zemo and Trish.