Reacher Season 2 Review: Alan Richson’s Series Delivers the Goods | Web Series News
Reacher is back. And all is well in the world. Or will, as he and his three buddies—whose bond goes back to when they served in the military together—turn on the bad guys, destroy them and, as bestselling author Lee Child succinctly puts it, “thirst for the graves of their ancestors.” End of matter.
The first season introduced us to Alan Ritchson, who instantly solved the main problem with the two feature films Tom Cruise tried to be Jack Reacher in: Ritchson was six-foot-plus, as big horizontally as he was vertically, just like Child’s namesake. Should have been a hero instead of a compact cruiser.
It was impossible to buy the humble Hollywood star as an ex-army pilot who lives rough, packs a toothbrush as his only luggage, refuses to tie down real estate and papers, and hangs around. In the US countryside, he goes through small towns where big villains live, dealing with them in the only way he knows how: to deliver a massive blow to himself first.
In Season 2, based on Child’s 11th novel Bad Luck And Trouble and developed by Nick Santora, it’s even bigger and just as scary. This time it’s all personal: a member of his old army has been killed most brutally, and it seems someone has the rest of them. Back when they were a tight-knit group, they had a saying: You don’t mess with special investigators. Now someone clearly has, and as far as Reacher is concerned, it’s someone’s end. or anyone.
The three friends who join Reacher on this mission are remnants of that old unit. Their addition makes things more interesting, especially when we need a bit of banter between all the action: punching people with your bare hands is the big man’s forte; He leaves the conversation to other people. Frances Niggle (Maria Stan), who we met briefly in the first season, is back with her sharp wit instincts: David O’Donnell (Sean Sipos) as the sly knife-man, and Carla Dixon (Serinda Swann) as the numbers. , step seamlessly into action as we follow them from New York to Vegas and everything in between as they begin to track down whoever killed their friends.
In the first season, in early 2022, we got all the episodes at once. This new series started with three episodes together, followed by one every week. Five episodes down, three done, and we’ve had one-on-one fights, a car crash, a gunfight, a cops-hot-on-the-trail-of-Reacher, a very bad guy who leaves a trail of bodies in his wake. , fantastic weapon prototypes, dirty drug dealer, bent weapon manufacturers. Bone-crunching, blood-curdling, beat-to-death cutscenes follow each other in quick succession: the storytelling is basic, but it gets the job done without wasting time, and it’s just the way it should be for Reacher fans.
While I look forward to the next and the next, I’m back to re-reading the book and it’s just as adrenaline pumping as ever.
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First uploaded by: 29-12-2023 19:35 IST
