I'm not a professional critic. I watch things for entertainment purely and to take myself out of the world around me. That being said, I really wanted to enjoy "The Punisher". With him already showing up as Frank Castle in "Daredevil", I would have thought that they would have added on Jon Bernthal's portrayal. That would have been great...if The Punisher was really IN the show for more than a few episodes. Don't get me wrong: Frank Castle is there, but this is not The Punisher. The first episode or two has some story and a little bit of action, and then gets into a series of sub-plots that were so boring that I found myself debating skipping entire episodes just to get to something worth watching again. The final 3 episodes of the series seemed worth watching, so...that's maybe 4-5 episodes out of 13 that were really worth my time? 13 episodes and only a 3rd- 4th of them worth watching? Even Iron Fist, the show everybody claimed was "unwatchable" seemed to have a stronger pull for me as it actually had stories and characters that I cared about. These stories were boring and drawn-out with no real pay off, and even the end of this "season" had me going "all that for...this?". I don't know what show the rest of you watched, but I wouldn't recommend this to anybody without saying "This isn't 'The Punisher'; this is the punishMENT". Hopefully season two has something better to say than spending so much time on SJW issues, PTSD, Frank's "special-needs" grunting/anger issues, and flashback after flashback after flashback of his family over and over and over again (we get it: they died).