1) How the heck do you have an episode take place in Madripoor and have virtually no Asian characters (speaking roles or even extras)?!
2) Looks like it was snowing in whatever location they had stand in for Madripoor. Oops.
3) They make Sam look like a screw-up by having him bring his phone to that meeting and not put it on silent. And if he's supposed to be posing as a tough guy, why wouldn't he just say "$@*# you" when Ms. Frosted Hair demanded he answer his phone on speaker phone?
4) It's not heroic and pretty stupid to help break Baron Zemo out of prison and work with him just to get super-soldier leads. They should find another way. At least, try to get clearance for a temporary release and monitor him more securely. Sam and Bucky are giving him a lot of control of the situation, and it's totally foreseeable that Zemo will do bad stuff. Any harm he does is on their heads.
5) On a related point, John Walker is actually coming across as more discipline and reasonable that Sam and Bucky. This is a problem. He needs to be a loose cannon for this storyline to work.
6) Sharon Carter seems out of character, even given the circumstances.
7) The action sequence with Sharon protecting the container didn't work. When she has one bounty in a hold, others should be coming and would take her out while she's vulnerable.
9) I realize Erin Kellyman as Karli Morganthau/Flag Smasher is supposed to be casting against type, but it just doesn't work.
10) The goals/ideology of the Flag Smashers is messy and unclear, and I just don't care.
11) The club scene in High Town seemed cheesy and poorly done. There were not nearly enough extras.
12) Falcon and Winter Soldier don't come across as nearly competent enough. Are they going for wacky buddy action comedy flick?
13) Falcon without his wings is underwhelming.

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Walker does seem more reasonable which is unexpected. When that guy spit in his face, I totally expected Walker to respond by beating the tar out of him. Merely slamming him into a support beam doesn't sell how unstable he should be.

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I don't understand Sharon here. She's been on the run for so long that she's now a criminal fence? If Bucky was pardoned, then shouldn't she had been as well? Now I have to wonder if she's in league with the Power Broker or at least knows he is.

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They name-dropped Latvia. Oh yeah.

I think there's a lot more going on with Sharon than we've seen so far. The last bit with her when she returns to her car with a driver waiting (and why would a driver be waiting for her when this was all ad hoc) and what she said to the driver indicates there's more than meets the eye here. IIRC she was working for the CIA (Langley) in Civil War, and she is obviously working for someone now, not a free agent. I think the role as a fence/art dealer/thief is just that, a role-a cover for her presence in Madripoor to give her access to all levels of society there. I think she is doing something deep undercover working for someone. I don't think she just happened to be in the bar and saw Sam and Bucky, I don't think it was a spur of the moment save their ass thing to kill Selby-that was probably her mission goal and was scouting things out when Sam/Buck/Zemo showed up and gave her the distraction to get access to Selby-there were lots of ways she could have gotten them out of that jam without killing Selby, but elimination Selby with the bonus of shifting blame to another target keeping her organization/boss in the clear was too good an opportunity to pass up. I've seen some speculation she is actually working for the Power Broker, I am not sure about that, but I do think she is the asset on the ground in Madripoor for somebody, not acting on her own and not making her living as an illegal art dealer (not to mention she would have needed some kind of huge financial stake to set up that gig initially that she didn't have when we last saw her on the run in Civil War, so who staked her? As for changes in attitude-it's been 7 years Marvel time since we saw her last. In that time she either died for 5 years and came back (unlikely since it would tough to set up that fence gig in the 6 months since the blip ended) or she's lived through seeing her peers fail and half the world dying, including possibly many people she cared about personally, seeing the remaining world go to hell, living through that hell, and then having to cope with everyone coming back. I think a lot of people here are underestimating how traumatic living in a world with the blip would be and how devastating that would be on the psyche of the survivors and the infrastructure of that world. Hell look at how traumatic 2020 was in our world and how it's affected people, now magnify that to a degree where half the world died instantly and unexpectedly and the lost year was 5 years and then suddenly everyone came back. That's going to change people, some drastically, so I am going to give the benefit of the doubt to characterizations if they seem different post-blip than they were pre-blip. Nobody is going to go through that unchanged. As to Sharon tearing through the ranks in the stockyards so easily and their lack of tactics-they were untrained thugs looking to cash in on a bounty, low-level mercs at best. They didn't work as a team because they were out to get the bounty for themselves, not share it with a large group of partners. When greed and everyman for themselves are the rule of the day, you're not going to see a lot of good strategy and tactics on their part, so it makes sense a highly trained opponent like Sharon would tear through them in that context.

I'll add a little more speculation as to why they released Zemo, or specifically why Bucky set Zemo free. He's the White Wolf. We saw the name in the movies and we see it confirmed and established in the show. In the comics, the White Wolf is not just a nickname or a pet name given to a guest in Wakanda, it's a position, a role. The person who does Wakanda's dirty work when Wakanda wants plausible deniability. My guess is that there are factions in Wakanda who want Zemo to pay more permanently than rotting in a cell playing chess and reading for killing T'Chaka. But Wakanda can do anything above the board to achieve that goal. But when a situation arises, such as the discovery of the super soldier serum, where Zemo's cooperation/knowledge is a factor, it creates an opportunity to put Zemo back on the board as a viable target Wakanda can respond to, so having the White Wolf engineer an escape as part of that leaving no chance Wakanda is implicated (and Winter Soldier was good enough to even give himself some plausible deniability in this). After Zemo is out, Bucky stays close to Zemo and waits for contact/instructions from Wakanda. He didn't randomly spot those Wakandan tech beads, he was looking for some sign from Wakanda and I don't think finding Ayo there at the end was a surprise to Bucky, he was expecting something of the sort.