I'm a pretty big Marvel-fan, not so much of the comics (tho I read my part of comics as a kid) and I must say The Punisher swept me away. This is a full blown actionfilled, gunswining, 'Murrica-growling blood fest, -some of the the most vomit hurling combos there is, to me-, and I loved every goddamn minute of it!

Frank Castle is an excellent antihero. We're never fooled to believe he is a hero, everything he does is too extreme, too dark and violent, but you never not root for him. Jon Bernthal gives us every visual we can take of a true breed 'murrican marine,exactly as the myth tells it, including the PTSD - of a sort, anyway.

As the show is already filled with growling, half naked male body scenes and action, I guess the filmmakers already knew they'd have the male audience in, so they've put alot of effort into capturing the other part. The show is heavy with romantic tension and scenes of Frank Castle being an all around nice, missunderstood, helping handyman, just enough for every woman to go "the right woman could mend his broken soul!", and they lay it out frikking perfectly. Everyone know we love that shizzle.

The best part, I think, is how there are no small/shallow characters. More or less every character with a name has something to his/her backstory, something that become relevant for the story or the character development.

It's all of these perfectly balanced pieces that take away the sexism and 'murrican parts of it that otherwise would repulse me.

In short - it's a damn good show.