Marvel's The Punisher Season 2: Ranking Every Character From Worst To Best

11. The Schultzes

(image from American Gods)

The real big bads of The Punisher season 2, those without any redeeming features, are Anderson and Eliza Schultz. The beginning of the season sets them up as a morally-corrupt yet powerful religious couple who are willing to do whatever it takes to make their son president. And that's pretty much all the characterisation they have for the rest of the 12 episodes.

The problem with the Schultzes is that they feel so disconnected from Frank himself. Not all his enemies have to be involved in the death of his family, of course, but they never even have anything to do with Frank until the last couple of episodes of the season. No real thematic connections are drawn between them either. Instead we get some weak real-world allusions through their collusion with Russians and use of fake news to get their son in the White House.

As for David himself, at least the writers didn't go with the obvious route and actually made him a decent politician, unaware of his parents' actions. All in all, the Schultzes felt like a waste of a big bad. Still, it was fun to see Annette O'Toole play a very different role from kind old Ma Kent on Smallville.