Oh god, I watched the first (of 8 ), and it was as awesome as I feared it would be.
See, that's how the book drags you in too. It's the veneer pulled back, and like the drive by truckers say, there's a lotta bad wood.
They're already shaking things up from the source material, so if you "know" something, now you don't.
Karl Urban is probably too Warm for Billy Butcher, he makes you like a guy who was about as warm as the punisher in the original. (Hatefucking was his character entrance)
Here he's a federal agent, out to take the Avengers, COUGH, the Seven down.
The scene with the arms goes down in a way to introduce plausable deniability, but A-train is still a bless'ed monster.
As to your Luthor bit, sounds like he'd fit in to that web of procedurals idea I posted in that other section.
A certain actor I may have mentioned before shows up as Hughies father, and once again, His American accent isn't one. He's become an American. He's only in two short scenes, but holy hell are they fantastic.
The show was put together by Eric Kripke, who previously put out the good seasons of Supernatural. One thing I always envied in that show was his music collection. Dude literally holds a commercial license. He can listen to whatever he wants, wherever he wants, on whatever he wants, and unlike us schlubs, it's 100% legal. You know those do not duplicate stickers? He can ignore them!
The "caper" solution was fantastic. I reluctantly must recommend this show.
CONTENT WARNINGS: Literally ALL OF THEM.
More specifically, there is a rape scene. It was in the original, it's here. It's sadly, more realistic than it should be. I don't mean in that it's graphic, I mean that the way it is both made possible, and completely erased from "history" is entirely too plausable.
Specifically, the victim could literally fry her victim like KFC, she has the power of the SUN. But she can't, because in the "world" she doesn't.
(If she had, she would be the villian who attacked or murdered a "hero")
On a different, possibly more personal note, it irked me that most of the poo avengers put on stark would be schoolyard hijinks compared to THIS poo.
Violence - about par for the preacher premier. Since it isn't on cable, there's full frontal male. It's not particularly gratuitous, it is a hero being a disgusting bless'ed skeeve, but is pretty much telegraphed from his introductory scene.
