re: Reacher Season 2: Official trailer

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Imagine people complaining about this season being cheesy when the premise itself is completely over the top. You have a former military police major with deduction skills similar to Sherlock Holmes and the combat skills of John Wick who continuously finds himself solving crimes and taking down baddies across the country over the course of 28 novels?

And you guys want realism?

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I’ve read probably 8 reacher books and the dialogue is completely on par and reacher’s perfect record in fights and solving crimes is comically fictional.

Before I pick up a book (which has been about 4 years) I know that Reacher is going to be interested in some random thing on the way to some random town and is going to get in a fight that he will win that leads to some gigantic larger than life crisis of the highest order with a megalomaniac villain. Along the way he’ll find out why the name of the town is Mother’s Rest or what happened to a Jazz musician he didn’t particularly care about but was curious what happened to him. And probably bang a local cop, PI, attorney, FBI agent, or detective who understands she has to let him go because he’s a wanderer.

The series isn’t perfect but it is a very good and 90% representation of the books, dialogue, or action sequences depicted in almost every aspect.

Any rumors about which novel the next season will be from?

Which one would be the best for next season?

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Before I pick up a book (which has been about 4 years) I know that Reacher is going to be interested in some random thing on the way to some random town and is going to get in a fight that he will win that leads to some gigantic larger than life crisis of the highest order with a megalomaniac villain. Along the way he’ll find out why the name of the town is Mother’s Rest or what happened to a Jazz musician he didn’t particularly care about but was curious what happened to him. And probably bang a local cop, PI, attorney, FBI agent, or detective who understands she has to let him go because he’s a wanderer.

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And this is what I absolutely love about this series.

Was it cheesy at time, sure. But I will Sonic knuckle check someone over the greatness of 24, and it had its moments (basically the entire premise) of non-realism.

I like the detective aspect of his character, but I also like the brutality of his tactics. Sure, the acting could be better, but I wouldn't know if they were venturing away from the book. And I'm ok with that.

Soap opera acting and writing. Horrible season.

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I was waiting for Reacher to hit one of the bad guys in the helicopter with the gurney- with the chick still strapped on it

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i 100% expected that.

so she's been tied down to that gurney for hours, can't get out, but now that she's about to fall to her death she just easily gets herself out of it finally.

I know they've killed a good bit of people in this show, but most of it was pretty well hidden, until this last episode. Most of the time they kill someone the bodies aren't found.
Reacher breaks into a cops house and shoots him in the head and just leaves him there. That's murder, and people in the neighborhood would have heard the shot.
you just waltz into a hospital and kill a guy in his bed without anyone noticing? That's murder. there's cameras everywhere, and they'll figure out what killed him, on top of the torturing his pecker hole.
and now a gov't agency, Homeland Defense, is just allowing this group of ex military civilians to shoot up a warehouse of people and then shoot down a helicopter and they cover for them, and they are perfectly fine with them taking $65M?


I liked last season, and i like the beginning of this season, but the ridiculousness just got too ridiculous for me towards the end.

You getting variety ad kickbacks?

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The third season of the Prime Video series, which was announced in December, will be based on the book “Persuader.” That book is the seventh in the Jack Reacher series written by Child. The official logline for the season states, “Reacher must go undercover to rescue an informant held by a haunting foe from his past.”

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Also says Neagley is back

A majority of the story takes place in a small town in Maine. There is a Boston connection but not the main location.


A majority of the books do take place in small towns. Occasionally Reacher is in s big city like Chicago or New York but briefly.

Yes. He has a big fight at the end with a huge bodyguard. I hope they can get the Mountain from GoT to portray that bodyguard.

I think the Boston connection is he sees the main villain walking the street and he thought he was dead. This will tie back into his Army life again and I’m sure there will be flashbacks.

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Just watched ep8…. It was cringeworthy action normally received for the $.25 DVD bin at Walmart

What a fall from S1

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Well if you read the books, most of the action in those is just not super sophisticated. Reacher is a force of nature in the books more than a person. The woman in this season were just a bit over the top in their abilities.

I can see a guy Reacher's size doing the things he does. Ritchson is a monster. What I found interesting is the idea Reacher had to be 235lbs of muscle. Reacher was described in book one around at 6'5" 220 lbs. He did not grow to Ritchson's size into the second book where he spend a summer digging pools with a shovel in Florida. There he bulked up to like 235 lbs. I guess they really wanted to separate Alan from Tom.