“The Punisher” is Netflix’s next highly anticipated Marvel TV show. The “Daredevil” spinoff has been incredibly secretive, but we know a few things about the new series.

Release Date: Netflix has been withholding the premiere date for months, redacting the month and day from all trailers and posters. However, the streaming platform finally revealed in a new trailer Thursday at that “The Punisher” Season 1 will be released on Friday, Nov. 17.

Marvel fans will have plenty to watch in November. “The Punisher” will premiere a few days before “Runaways.” The latter is a Hulu show (premiering Nov. 21) based on Marvel comics about a group of teenagers who discover their parents are evil.

Episodes: “The Punisher” will consist of 13 episodes, and the titles were released in Morse code last month.

  1. “3 a.m.”
  2. “Two Dead Men”
  3. “Kandahar”
  4. “Resupply”
  5. “Gunner”
  6. “The Judas Goat”
  7. “Crosshairs”
  8. “Cold Steel”
  9. “Front Toward Enemy”
  10. “Virtue of the Vicious”
  11. “Danger Close”
  12. “Home”
  13. “Memento Mori”

Cast: Jon Bernthal returns as Frank Castle, and “Daredevil” fans will also recognize Deborah Ann Woll as Karen. However, most of the players in Frank’s story are new:

  • Ebon Moss-Bachrach plays Micro, a former NSA analyst who is living off the grid.
  • Jamie Ray Newman portrays Sarah Lieberman, Micro’s wife.
  • Ben Barnes plays Billy Russo, Frank’s best friend from his Special Forces days.
  • Jason R. Moore will play Curtis Hoyle, a war veteran who fought alongside Frank. He’s one of just a few people who knows Frank is alive.
  • Daniel Webber has been cast as Lewis Walcott, another young vet who doesn’t feel quite right in civilian life.
  • Paul Schulze’s character Rawlins in a CIA agent who crosses Frank’s path during a mission in Afghanistan.
  • Michael Nathanson and Amber Rose Revah play Sam and Dina, the Homeland agents who are after The Punisher.
  • Shohreh Aghdashloo will play Dina’s mother.

Fans of the Marvel/Netflix shows will notice that Claire Temple (Rosario Dawson) is missing from the list. This is the first “Defenders”-related series that has not featured the nurse.

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“Marvel’s The Punisher” finally has a release date. Netflix

Less Supernatural: While “Daredevil,” “Iron Fist,” “Jessica Jones” and “Luke Cage” bring a certain amount of fantasy elements, it sounds like “The Punisher” is much more grounded.

“We are stripping down every supernatural element,” star Jon Bernthal told Entertainment Weekly last month. “This show is different. It looks different. Frank is a character rooted in the most basic human emotions… He’s a comic-book character, but he doesn’t fly, he doesn’t have X-ray vision. He’s an unbelievably skilled soldier who’s been very, very angry and very, very hurt.”

Flashbacks: This show isn’t the first time we’ve seen Frank, but it will go back and show his origin story. Audiences will see Frank before he became a killer and understand what drove him to become the Punisher.

Frank’s Psyche: It seems like “The Punisher” will explore Frank’s mentality and his reasons behind killing even more so than “Daredevil” Season 2. “[Killing is] the only thing that silences the demons, temporarily,” says Bernthal told Empire. “There’s going to be an attempt to move beyond the Punisher, but that’s something he can’t shake. There’s part of me that’s hungry to get back into the darkness, that’s excited to see it fall apart.”

“The Punisher” Season 1 premieres Friday, Nov. 17 on Netflix.

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