Marvel's The Punisher: 9 Reasons It's A Disappointment

Daredevil should have been a clean break for The Punisher. At the end of the show's second season, Frank Castle burned his family home to the ground. Symbolically, that should have wiped the slate clean. Of course, there was never any question that his dead family would continue to haunt him, but it felt like that should be more of a driving force.

Not a constant barrage of vivid hallucinations.

Throughout season one of The Punisher, Frank Castle has visions of his wife and, less frequently, his children. Occasionally they are being murdered, though in different ways, and at least once by Castle himself. The writers no doubt wanted to imply that Castle has a feeling of guilt, that deep down he believes he got his family killed. Instead, you wind up with a muddled mess causing you to question just how exactly they died. Not to mention where.

At other times, Castle uses the memory of his wife to endure pain, reliving a particularly passionate sexual encounter with her to help him through being tortured. A slightly better utilization of these flashbacks, if only it hadn't dragged on, and gotten to the cliche point of Castle choosing to "leave" the ghost of his wife behind.