SummaryRetired Military Police Officer Jack Reacher (Alan Ritchson) is arrested for murder just as he arrives at the small Georgia town of Margrave in this drama series based on the Lee Child's Reacher novels.
SummaryRetired Military Police Officer Jack Reacher (Alan Ritchson) is arrested for murder just as he arrives at the small Georgia town of Margrave in this drama series based on the Lee Child's Reacher novels.
All the components for a helluva good time are here. Ritchson hasn’t lost a step as America’s 21st century answer to the wandering anti-hero archetype, and the show hasn’t forgotten what made the first iteration so entertaining: lots of satisfying ass-kicking by way of a WWE-sized Sherlock Holmes-type. What’s not to love?
Reacher proves once again that it’s not just a good show, but a great one. Eleven stars out of five. It is also—obviously—a really bad one. But its badness is absolutely flawless, ultimately only contributing to its greatness.
Absolutely fenomenal tv show exactly what I wanted, I had been to watched with pleasure, a lot of action and adventure, cool characters and storyline. If you want to watch some interesting tv show this is it
Reacher is everything I was expecting it to be. Free from all type Identity Politics and Amazon know that this is the season for grown ups whom you cannot teach what is right and what is wrong.
In season two, he’s got backup in the form of some also lethal old friends, as well as another personal score to settle. This series understands what it does best, and honors its source material by casting the correct version of its main character.
An unpretentious and well-paced mix of investigation and extrajudicial retaliation, Reacher season 2 is purpose-built Friday night TV. That is, perfect for pounding popcorn while Reacher pounds away onscreen – mostly into the faces and fleshy bits of scattered salvoes of assorted scumbags.
A guilty pleasure? Sure. The bone-crunching battle scenes are outrageously violent, improbable and as formulaic as the plotting, but also satisfying in the way that we're drawn to James Bond's or John Wick's remorseless dispatching of enemies. [8 - 28 Jan, p.8]
Overall, the sophomore season of "Reacher" is an entertaining mix of contrasts: compassion and vengeance, quirkiness and rigidity, status quo and subversion.
I am absolutely shocked this came out of hollywood and was made by Amazon as this series is a throwback to action movies of the 80s and 90s! It's so refreshing to watch a show free of wokeness and identity politics! The characters are well written and the relationships seem authentic. The action is also really well dobe and entertaining. In a critic review I saw someone descibe Reacher as Sherlock Holmes if he was played by a WWE Wrestler. I think that's a good way to look at it! I highly recomnend this show it exemplary acrosa the board!
First couple episodes don't feel as tight or as well written as season 1. Still enjoyable, but mostly because of Reacher's performance. I really don't need a team backing up a guy who is suppose to be a loner, but whatever. The show's clear "anti-woke" politics are also kinda off-putting and borderline racist. The action feels a bit gratuitous and not always well choreographed, but often emotionally satisfying. A good show still, not a great show. Not sure why they have to show us the bad guys being bad all the time.
Season 1 was "fine" and fairly grounded.
Season 2 has a good group dynamic, but the plot is convoluted and the amount of punishment people "shrug off" immersion-breaking. The whole "grounded" approach goes out of the window when you have 2 gun fights and a melee brawl in every episode without consequences.
The season lost me at the end with Reacher acting all "holier than Jesus".
This just isn't believable writing. Do better.
I love the Reacher books. I liked Season 1 which I thought was very faithful to the book, and conveyed very well Reacher character?
Season 2 has been a disappointment, to say the least. I have not read the original book (one of the few) this season is based on, but I can't imagine that it has so many plot holes and inconsistencies.
There is no real "investigation", characters move from one place to another with no clear purpose or lead, everything is stupid about their overall behaviour, and in general all characters act stupidly.
Example: a truck full of MISSILES is driven by a single regular driver with no escort ??? And instead of backpedaling when he sees a damaged truck on the side, he stops, gets out (leaving his truck full of missiles unattended) ?
And the good guy, when they arrive on the scene, they see the bad guys, assess they are the bad guys, and WAIT for them to draw their weapons, only to get shot at ? And they damage the only remaining truck trying to shoot a single guy with a dozen bullets, when they expertly dispatched the other two with one bullet each ? Seriously ? And all of plot is like this.
It's too a point we simply stopped watching mid way.
Really disappointed to see how they treated this book and character
Badly written two dimensional cheezy caracters. The production was obviously ruched. Very disapointed. Feel like the actors are readind a teleprompter. The chemistry between them feels fake. Lombardozzi police caracter is cringy (we are very far from The Wire).
Five episodes was enough. Sorry but there's better show to watch !