I thought it was a good watch. The ending went flat once that "mystery" was resolved. It was a simple kind of story for a simple kind of man.
Season 1 was better but I like that the show doesn't pretend to be any more than it is. Supposedly in S3, he goes back to more of a solo mode, which is best IMO.
The first half of season 2 was ok. But then it started getting too stupid, and it seemed like they had enough story for four episodes, but stretched it out to eight.
Yes. It was a thin story stretched out about 4 episodes too long but also somehow wrapped up too quickly. I was a good bit into episode 8 until I realized it was the finale and that’s how they were choosing to end it. But as a show it was entertaining enough to kill some time and I’d watch a third season. That’s probably about the bar they’re trying to hurdle.
I think my favorite part of season 2, was the "snipers" who couldn't hit open targets in the cemetery.
The "We're the smartest strongest fasters most accurate and sneaky folx in the room" thing got old There was no real stakes Rocket River
When I saw the Jack Reacher movie I hadn’t read the books so didn’t know anything about the character. Tom cruise did a good job but it was also a very good story and great acting by Rosamund Pike and Werner Herzog always does a good job as the bad guy.
The stakes were settled when half of his company died off screen. I get the streaming format demands constant viewing, but they could've gutted it for a now old-school tv season format of 13 semi-serial episodes to build his team's individual character (A-team inspired?). Normally the flashback would be the season, and killing T-1000 who killed reacher's bros would be the next or the segue to the next if there was a brilliant showrunner. The Chatgpt rewrite formula cut too much fluff off that script...
Forreal. They were badasses that we never saw do anything badass . . .not really Spoiler The whole Is it Swan or isn't it thing felt so fake at the end OF COURSE ONE OF HIS GUYS WOULD *NEVER* BE BAD!!! How could he POSSIBLY be fallable or wrong . . . I would have really loved for swan to break bad and been the mastermind someone capable of a real challenger in intellect as well as training maybe that's a bit cliche . Rocket River
I’ve read all of the Lee Child Reacher books. So I knew the basic plot for Season Two before watching. A faithful rendition of what was in the book would have been closer to 4 episodes than 8. Alan Ritchson is not strong enough actor to carry the show. There are way too many end of scenes where Ritchson just looks into the camera confused, pissed off. Ritchson plays Reacher as a bit of an ass, which is seriously off character. If this is how the writers wrote it … The show writers had to add characters and story arcs not in the book, to get 8 episodes. The new stuff just sucks. Spoiler The bad guy looks to be toast at one point, but out of nowhere a helicopter full dudes with machine guns sweep in and save his ass. A great-big-o WTF. I am now finished with Episode 6. I know how it likely ends. And I am unsure if I will gut out the last two hours.
You might as well gut it out. I doubt you'll be satisficed (I wasn't), but the final few minutes are good, and you get to hear a little good music along the way. One question for you... I've only read a couple of the books. Does Reacher kill people in cold blood in the novels?
Whatever happened to the bone breaking action of S1? The S2 was somehow pretty mediocre, just didn't hit hard like S1.
No. Reacher in the novels kills but they are not “cold blooded” kills. I would describe a typical Reacher kill as more like dispatching an enemy on the battlefield. Ritchson is so 2D that he comes across as a bit of a psycho killer in the series. Tom Cruise did not. In series 2, the writers had his old army buddies call him a “psychopath”, which is the writers showing that they did not understand Lee Child’s source material.
Season 2 of Reacher he does seems to go out of his way to get violence where as before it seemed like he was more of a thinker who wouldn’t fight unless he really had to.
They definitely made the fights with placements of big hulkish guy vs rando black shirt baddies. People enjoy watching circus spectacles like whenever Wemby does a freakish playstation move against the competition. I think they did show moments where Reacher was a deeply empathetic thinker, but they veered too much into the spectrum made popular by Cumberbach's take on Sherlock. I guess it's because of acting limitations, though the meat and potatoes writing could just as easily be the bigger culprit.
That's good to hear. There was one kill in S2 that seemed to be very out of character, from the little bit I know of the character at least, but I don't want to spoil anything.
