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Reacher: Season Two finds Alan Ritchson's character receiving a coded message about the mysterious deaths of his former U. S. Army unit members, the 110th MP Special Investigators. The storyline is based on Lee Child's Bad Luck and Trouble book about his former unit and reunites Reacher with Neagley (Maria Sten), Dixon (Serinda Swan), and O'Donnell (Shaun Sipos). Together they uncover a conspiracy involving the defense contractor New Age Technologies and a ruthless arms broker named AM (Ferdinand Kingsley). The team discovers New Age is developing a powerful missile technology called "Little Wing" and plans to sell it to terrorists. The head of New Age is our antagonist who is played by Robert Patrick who also bribed the NYPD to keep it a secret. The lead detective Marsh (Al Sapienza) was trying to throw off Russo (Domenick Lombardozzi) from investigating into the murders. Overall this season was filled with plenty of action and some love interest between Reacher and Dixon. I love the feel good type of storyline and the harsh reality of the series. Can't wait to see where Reacher will end up next.

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.

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 ...

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 gave Reacher Season 1 a 9 rating - it was an excellent adult action , romance with humor series - one of the most enjoyable I watched in 2023 - by comparison Season 2 was devoid of romance and humor and the action was silly at times - the story itself was thin with predictable twists at the end that have been done a 100 times - I think jumping ahead in the authors intended progression of Reacher was a major mistake because the connection with the first season was all but lost - there was no chemistry between the new team members and the attempts to give us a bonding feeling with flashbacks was more annoying the illuminating - In short - this came no where near the adult action - romance season 1 series and a major disappointment - it was more like a Sylvester Stallone B movie - and not quite that good - they at least usually have some humor. Bring back Rosco for Season 3 and I might watch it.