Fly Boy

Are you all really quibbling about whether it's realistic, or whether a human can really do that, or, whatever the heck else you want to complain about? 🤣. The character was in his mid to late 30's when he was introduced in the first book and is unstoppable as of the latest book, in which he's got to be 50's if not 60. For heaven's sake - if you read the books, you already have to suspend disbelief as he moves from town to town, outmatching everyone and righting wrongs. Get a grip people. It is FICTION and in fiction, we can do whatever we want, even have what seems to be superhuman strength or unbelievable luck. At least they have stuck with Alan Ritchson. His physical makeup at least does a better job of matching the guy that Lee Child first created. I understood when Child allowed Tom Cruise to play him, becaus, well, TOM CRUISE. But he was never really Jack Reacher. This Alan Ritchson guy fits him to a T.

I can barely accept that the series has turned into a series about a group of ruthless killers who kill dozens of people out of revenge and in a sadistic manner, I can barely accept that there is the head of security of a company who decides to sell futuristic weapons to terrorists, corrupt a senator, cause the death of dozens of people, all this for ONLY $65 million, but I absolutely cannot accept that Homeland, for some reason that is not understood, not only wants to hide, but even succeeds in hiding a group of killers involved, directly or indirectly, in political corruption for the purpose of selling state-of-the-art weapons to a terrorist group that has led to the deaths of dozens and dozens of local criminals, a policeman a police chief, the entire security sector of a company, a truck driver, a criminal in a hospital, a fake doctor in a hospital, an arms dealer, a pilot and a technician shot down by a missile, a politician's escort, a politician's aide and the senator himself, who by the way are alive and it is not clear why they should not talk, and I am probably forgetting someone. .. It becomes science fiction ...

The first season of Reacher was essentially perfect. The writing and acting absolutely nailed Reacher. It was a superb TV adaptation of the book Killing Floor. The second season has been so much worse, mostly the writing.

Season Two of Reacher is what happens when the writers decide to make it more stereotypically "Hollywood". This isn't Reacher. It's a dumb action flick with all the tropes, like unnecessary violence, thousands upon thousands of bullets flying everywhere and no one getting hit, people doing absurd stunts that make no sense, plus plenty of other physics-defying nonsense.

If you like Reacher, and especially if you like the books, I think you're going to be disappointed in this season and especially this absurd ending.

I haven't checked to see if the same writers were used for this season or not. If not, they absolutely need to fire this group and rehire the original group. If this was done by the original group, well, time to fire them, too, and find someone willing to stick closer to the source material.

Firstly, I loved the first season: tight plot in a small town, with a great cast. Season two on the other hand is entirely devoid of the first season's charm and intellect. The story is paper thin, extremely soporific, and very predictable; the supporting cast are completely forgettable and dull; and the main flaw is Reacher lacks the allure he had in the first season.

It's not a terrible season, it's just an eye-watering slog to get through, because there's so little here that grabs you. I hope to god they correct course for the next season and make something in line with what made the 1st season so good, because this ain't it.

This season finale was really bad and ludicrous, stretching believability to its very limit.

Apparently Reacher now has superpowers but all he's missing is a cape. That helicopter scene is totally ridiculous.

The whole build up of the season is wrapped up within the first 20 minutes and there was never any doubt of the outcome. Predictable, predictable, predictable.

Whoever wrote season two and whoever gave the go ahead to make should never be allowed to work on television shows ever again. They took a great first season and made season two laughably campy and ridiculous with sloganeering instead of actual dialogue or character development. At this point I don't even care if there's a third season.