L.A. Story

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.

What is up with the Boston? It has me wondering if all the places that have been visited in the series are portrayed like that. This was the episode where the odd accents and references were leas of an annoyance and became downright distracting. Anyway, onto the penultimate . Maybe I have forgotten a lot about past seasons but Reacher seemed pretty blood thirsty this season. I hadn't thought about him this way ( although he certainly has a solid reason for the madness) .Overall, Reacher continues to be a captivating series, one we can all agree on. The leads are well cast and likable. Reacher himself, in this series , remains excellent. His character and plight manage to capture ,what I assume, are the private fantastical victories of people and I am here for it , it's done really well. And now I imagine the giant will be coming for him next. I am worried for Reacher -have we ever been worried for Reacher ?!

The writers of this show really can't write smart or emotional plot lines but they insist on trying to do it, and it always fails miserably.

The super drug lord from LA has successfully evaded the authorities for who knows how long, they can't pin anything on him, but along comes Reacher and in about three seconds he dismantles his whole operation. Very believable.

The forced, manufactured out of nothing romance between Reacher and the annoying fed was terrible. But, hey, they dug up some grandma out of somewhere so that she could say how she sees that they are in love, because she is old and knows a lot of stuff, so the audience should just accept it and ignore the zero chemistry between them and annoying fed's general mentally unstable behavior towards Reacher. And so, Reacher ignores the common wisdom about what you shouldn't do in crazy, and does it anyway.

The whole Teresa plot is so stupid and unbelievable. Perhaps that is why the writers have to remind us every five seconds that Teresa is so important and they are doing it all for her. Seriously, some international rich hot shots can't find themselves a redhead anywhere, so Quinn has to keep her alive because she is such a prize?

The acting is atrocious across the board. Ritchson is barely passable some of the time, and terrible the rest of the time, while the rest of the cast is terrible all of the time. Whether they are trying to appear tough, or emotional, the result is always laughable and it is a toss up what is worse - the acting or the writing.

Reacher is a simple, formulaic, by the numbers show. It can be entertaining but only if it accepts its limitations and plays to its strengths. It doesn't have the writing nor acting skills to be some masterpiece, but apparently, the showrunners can't accept that and keep trying to reinvent the wheel, which always ends up in a mess like this episode.

Anyone else getting tired of Duffy getting on and on how she must save Teresa and because of that she keeps doing increasingly dumb moves? I mean, come ooooon, we get it, you've coerced the kid, stop repeating it over and over... Not to mention that Duffy actress is as good at acting as I am at knitting.

And that's another theme of this season, the acting is so incredibly poor, like no one gives a rats behind anymore. Why even bother to produce it any longer if you don't care, just scrap the series if you don't have the heart to do it or let it be done by someone who actually cares... As the saying goes around in this TV show - details matter!

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.