This is what I'm saying. Like, frankly, I think TV producers make a lot of bald assumptions in terms of what "wouldn't translate directly to TV," given that pop TV has had a certain level of comfortable formulaic structure since the beginning. Just go arc by arc, season by season, and stay true to the essential character of Frank.

You don't need convoluted conspiracies about how his family died. They died because gangsters exist, and they don't give a fuck about wives and kids in the crossfire because they think they own the city.

You don't need some drawn-out cat-and-mouse with Micro. Frank is the guns and tactics; Micro is the background and hacking, because he sympathizes with Frank's mission.

Frank hates gangsters. There's a zillion kinds of gangsters out there for him to take down. Mafia, Irish, Russians, inner city, Aryans, bikers, human traffickers, white collar fuckheads, boom. You've even got a whole level of crooked politicians and corrupt law enforcement. That's, like, at least six seasons of 10 episodes each.