L.A. Story

Lee Child wrote Persuader in first person from Reacher's perspective. That type of source material is difficult to translate to the screen. It requires the main character to narrate the entire story with no knowledge of the actual backstories impacting the other characters unless they convey them to the main character directly. The writers chose to digress from Reacher's recollection of the unfolding story by creating scenes of the background players and inventing dialogue which was irrelevant to the overall plot.

They also blunted Reacher's personality. Alan Ritchson may not win any best actor Oscars in his career, and if his stage direction was to deliver every line in monologue form and as fast as he could say the words, then he succeeded. In the first two seasons he was able to portray more of Reacher's personality, and the supporting character's dialogue filled in their knowledge and expertise. In this season, the writers apparently decided that Reacher knew 10 times more than everyone else and he had to educate them on every aspect of how to deal with each situation.

This episode was the worst of the series by far. The season started off with some promise by following the opening chapters of the novel. Then they digressed and made it a one dimensional revenge mission for Reacher and removed the observational aspects of his personality, which in previous seasons has enabled him to evolve from his starting point of view.

I've previously written that I thought Tom Cruise pulled off the Jack Reacher character in the movies by portraying Reachers attitude, personality and intelligence in spite of the physical differences.

I'm not a big fan of this type of show, but it's absolute cartoonish being with one dimensional characters is hard to not have fun with. The setup is neatly there. All the characters are in play. Reacher is the consummate good guy--superhero if you will. We have his team (which varies from year to year). You have the question many wonder about: What will happen to Beck, who has no future alive? Then we have a host of bad guys, still left after Reacher has killed many of them. Quinn, of course, is absolutely immoral--no redeeming qualities at all. And that big guy, who will soon be taken care of.

I don't know why there is so much animus toward the show. It's entirely a formula that will play out, like the other two seasons. It festers in our innermost need for vengeance.

Granted, Duffy is not an exciting character and her obsession with finding that woman are a tiresome recurrence. Duffy's guilt and personal stake in this is hard to fathom considering how much other stuff is going on. And there are some other issues (the overweight sidekick with the donut fixation).

But if they are creative, they can fashion a real impressive final fifty minutes. Or will Quinn get away and we'll have to see him for another season?

Not much to this one, just a bridge to the final episode with Reacher and Bad Boston Accent working with the stereotype feds to take down the evil gun runners, with Breakfast Club Crimeboss, now missing an ear, in some maudlin drama with his son (indicating predictably that he's probably not going to make it through the last episode) and of course, Neagley doing her girl boss thing because she's just the best at everything and just always has to show up in every season to be the greatest evar! I have to admit there wasn't a great deal of exciting buildup to the final episode next week. I mean, we know it's coming, but you just sort of feel blah about it. Let's just get it over already. We need to see Reacher beat up the 8 ft. Tall bearded guy and to properly take out the bad guy that miraculously survived being shot in the head and falling off a cliff. I really hope that if they keep this series going that maybe they'll mix things up a little, keep it a little closer to the books, and maybe do a season based on something like Past Tense, without the tired "Team Reacher" formula and just him showing up in town and doing everything alone for a change.

I can't believe they had a chance to ramp up the tension but instead wound it down to this. It's a bad episode of reacher and a bad episode of tv overall.

This whole season has been a bit silly all round with some good tension here and there but has never reached the highs of season 1 and 2

The acting has also been wooden this season with very few likeable characters. It's clear that the budget was much lower this season.

I need to type another 300 words for this review so please forgive this pointless last paragraph, all right see you at the finale and I hope they adopt a better book for season 4.

Honestly , the entire ep7 is a DOWNGRADE of ep1, 2 , 3, 4 ,5 ,6 combined, the quality is horrible, it felt like a indian tv serial, it failed to build insane tension , like the one in s1 and s2, do better honestly.

In your next season , do a better introduction and a better conclusion and better tension build.

Jack ryan s1e7 has good tension built in, try to replicate like that , also try to show both the hero fov and villain fov , like the one in Jack ryan s1.

They did pretty good on s3 ep1-6, but nah ep7 is straight horrible.

Its not the worst but not the greatest.

Also, try too add plot twist likr s1.