I'm not into comic books, but Jon Bernthal's deciption of The Punisher was really good, as long there was script to follow.

Season 1 of the show has just about right amount of plot to follow, twists, turns and treachery for Punisher to shoot guns at people and take way more hits to the head with various metal objects that even most medically inept people couldn't believe anything they see anymore. Still, it was a story and it got told. I personally hated every moment Dinah Madani (portrayed Amber Rose Revah) was shown, but everything else sort of fit together. If anything, entire thing was 6 episodes longer than it should - out of 13 episodes, there's enough meaningful content to fill about 7.

I'm really struggling to understand how could anyone find Punisher's bruised, beaten up and bloody face that exciting or why they included so much and endless face beating in show overall, but there's some other legit action sequences also (shooting mostly), which are really cool to watch.

Season 2 starts off REALLY well. The Punisher is somewhere in Nowhere, Ohio, gets a crush on local bartender and episodes later, helps to circle wagons while local police station is under attack. This all had extremely good, Jack Reacher-like vibe, a modern lone-ranger cowboy-story kind. And lulled me into thinking that season 2 could actually be really good.

But since it's a Marvel product, of course the cast gets back to most criminal-infested city on the planet - which is New York (according to Marvel) really quickly, and things go really downhill from there. So for about 8 episodes, characters just sit around and think what to do next. Which is ironic, or sort of fourth-wall-breaking, because the show itself also doesn't know what to next. Save for unlikely love story and Punisher *still* moaning about his family. Not sure why anyone would care even a bit about that. Nothing truly goes nowhere and only thing missing from the screen is show saying "just skip this scene, it'll save you some lifetime".

Until we reach last 2 episodes, where everyone just decides to kill each other, and do so in quick, "no, we really didn't figure out how to write a script, so let's just tie this off" sort of way.

And that's The Punisher. First season is sort of watchable, second is total waste of time.