The series isn't bad. The stories that are told are not bad. Where this series failed is the number of stories that were being told. It seemed like they wanted to cram a ton of stuff into only 6 episodes. The series could have dropped the Sharon Carter portions of the series and left the audience wondering who she was. Bucky's redemption story was a great idea! Sam's character development was a great idea! Isaiah Bradley's story was a great idea! The problem is that the series tried to fit all of those great ideas into six episodes and the result was some very great stories being diluted down. I understand they are trying to set things up for the future movies yet to be released, but Marvel shot itself in the foot with this series.

It wasn't an epic fail by any means. There are plenty of great moments. The final speech that Sam gives is moving; however, the series spent so much time trying to focus on other stories that his speech just felt like it was trying to get virtue points from the audience--when really his speech deserved more than that.