It's a shame, it really is. I already felt it once i had seen the first episode, that this show lacks confidence in itself. They tried to tell too much in that episode, tried to establish too many characters, and in doing so, delivered the most predictable kind of story you could ever imagine, we are talking 80's B movie type of storytelling here, with the most stereotypical characters you've ever seen.

They had so many great opportunities to make this right, by letting us get to know Castle a little better first, before throwing it all into the blender and hope for the best. I don't care who lives or dies if i don't know any of the characters, why would i?

So unexpected that Marvel, which time and time again have proved to deliver good stories for their characters, did this. They should have had more confidence and let the show start off slowly, and let the character build, and let the "other villains" develop, let us know what makes them tick, make them interesting, do something creative for f... sake.

Instead we got this. A bag of mixed opportunities. The reason i believe, they want all in so fast is because they are not sure about their audience, so they throw in as much as they can and let the story and narrative suffer because of it. Well this is Michael Bay logic, and it does not work, it works on 12 year old's, too bad they are not allowed to watch this series huh? It's like this show spells "Hey people who like violence and blood aren't all that smart, so don't bother making a good story". But we have come to expect a lot from TV series in this century, with many great shows, as the medium provides the perfect platform for complex storytelling, which is very hard to achieve in the cinema where you usually only have 2-3 hours to accomplish the same thing. Therefor, wasting your talent when you have all these things to your advantage, is a cardinal sin.

And what hurts me the most is that Jon Bernthal is perfect as The Punisher, he just has the right grit and inner fire this character needs, and i just want him to explode in anger at any moment. But when you can see exactly when that's going to happen 20-30 minutes before it does, well then the fun is over, then the scenes has no impact, i already played them in my head 10 times over when we come down to it. And the biggest surprise is that the scenes depicted in this series is far from as brutal as i imagined, for the most part not like the violence we saw in daredevil. And that is something i found puzzling, i thought it would be the other way around. It's not until the last 3 episodes where we really get the most violent scenes, and those are truly awesome, but why wait? Why wait to unleash the punisher until the very end?

So we have a surprisingly gentle show here, with some dull dialogues, stereotype characters and not much depth. The only true great thing about the show is Jon Bernthal and his believable performance, but sadly he just has no time to develop or properly show his inner fire, instead we get those family flashback scenes over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over again, until it becomes a parody in on itself. Why would they do this? Yes i get it, his family was murdered, yes i get it, this is what fuels his fire. But seriously.... Don't overdo it please, don't underestimate your audience.

The first 3 episodes aren't all that good, but the season becomes better as it plays along, and the last 3 episodes is where the real stuff happens. But all in all, it's a good watch, i just wished it was more surprising and brutal, let's hope season 2 gives us more of that.

BTW you guys remember that scene from daredevil where The Punisher is on the stand in court?. Where he says i'm the punisher and i'm gonna kill'em all?. Yeah that was a great scene, there we saw him, the real punisher. But that was in daredevil, here in his own show, we rarely see him like this, and that is just really weird.

I give this show a 6 out of 10