Smoke on the Water

I've read all the Reacher novels. Many of them several times. I read a lot. Persuader is in my top 5. So, I've enjoyed this season. Personally, I think this was the best episode of the season.

It departs a bit from the book. But that's fine.

I also like Duffy. I get it, some folks don't like her accent. But I'm from Chicago and she sounds exactly like what people from Chicago think people from Boston sound like. Plus, I like the character. Let's face it season 1's Roscoe set the bar pretty high. But I think Duffy is great.

I also love Neagley. I'll admit at first I didn't like the actress playing Neagley, because when I read the books I pictured Neagley shorter. Mraia Sten is quite tall But now when I read the books I picture Maria Sten as Neagley. She has definitely won me over and I think she is great in the roll. I also think this episode in particular is really great for her.

This episode was great. I saw a review that gave this episode 1 star! ... REALLY? I have no idea what people want.

Reachr comes face to face with Quinn and the latter really has amnesia. He fails to recognise the man mountain Reacher.

Even better news for Reacher. Quinn is under pressure from the Russian mafia. Quinn owes them money and time is running out.

Reacher also finds out that Teresa is miraculously still alive. She is being kept somewhere drugged up.

The biggest fly in the ointment is that Richard Beck knows that his attempted kidnapping was faked and Reacher was involved.

Also Reacher's cover is blown and he needs to evade the baddies.

There are several threads at play here. The return of Neagley back in action. Reacher has to hope for self preservation but he knows the Becks are in serious trouble as well.

Rather entertaining in a potboiler sort of way.

So far I have enjoyed this season. A decent plot, real stakes and a foreboding build up to one extremely evil bad guy. And then episode 6 came along... One stupid plot mechanism after the other. Characters saying or doing irrational things. And an truly underwhelming bad guy. They really built up Quinn to be this demonic entity, and then we get this bland guy with no charisma what so ever, I mean, some of the henchmen are more terrifying than him...

Too bad. I really liked this season up until this episode. And yes, I know Lee Childs books aren't exactly art, and in no way on par with, say, Michael Connelly's Bosch series, but the story and plot has to make sense. This just got stupid.

I am currently binge watching this and I'm on 3:4. Just read some of these comments. I'm actually laughing my head off. All these comments about reachers nudity being unnecessary and ridiculous and pointless and blah blah blah. These have GOT to be written by men. Men who don't look like reacher. Can I sense a little jealousy here guys? You're upset because you don't look like that? Well imagine how women have felt for years and years of having naked women in everything. Usually pointless and unnecessary just gratuitous. And women watching being upset because they don't look like those women. It's 50/50 now guys. It's ok for women to be naked on screen but not men? Get over yourselves. Don't be pathetic and jealous. Go to the gym. And yes more reacher nudity please. Thankyou. Also the show is really good.

This one was one of the worst. The writers seem to have a sadistic bent with this one, including more Russian roulette, brutal torture and beatings, a graphic strangulation, a large fishing hook to the foot and worst of all... Reacher's naked butt. Oh, and to make the episode even more awful, we get the return of the insufferable character Neagley, because there just weren't enough random characters scrambled into this episode, we need to have her return, of course girlboss-style, casually taking down some deadly assassins and then eating her fruit loops while watching one die. You know, the third season started well but episodes like this one are causing it to rapidly plummet. You're supposed to get people interested in the series resolution, not leave them disgusted.