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I still love Reacher but I'm just not enjoying this season as much as I hoped I would. It definitely would have been better to watch all the episodes at once. Not wait every week for a new episode. It feels like something is missing and I'm not sure what it is.

I think I enjoyed the first season because he was pretty much a one man show. This is just too....not sure the word.

I'm still watching until the end but I'm not as excited to see what happens. I must say I love the actor who plays Russo. No matter what show he is in or who he plays I always love seeing him. I know Reacher is skeptical of him but hopefully he turns out to be a good apple.

Not sure what else to say. Hopefully it will all be wrapped up nicely and Reacher will go back to being the one man show.

There were two great shoot out sequences that looked pretty professional.

Some scenes could have been fast paced like Russo and the Reacher's scene at the funeral. It was not as pacy as the last episodes but this sets it up perfectly for the final act as the mystery of Swan and the dilemma of Reacher of Swan's innocence is shown pretty well.

The bad: Reacher and his team have now encountered the packages and the mystery of the number 65 million is solved but still have to track down the hijacked packages. Would have wanted to see more of that than scenes of Donnell's family and children which have already been established.

Still a good solid episode, waiting for the next!

One liners flowing like a fine aged whiskey, more evidence to suggest swan has gone bad, reacher getting facts and hard to swallow truths.

Review stuff, Some of the burial scenes seemed a lil staged as the background was so far out of focus but the cast was all sharp with no one else around. And then they still have outside shots that look way better, other wise sound and music all good and maintaining the strong production values overall.

This episode is a bit of a slower burn compared to the previous 4, which seems like an deliberate move to pace viewers for what seems like a full on final 3, but for some viewers with the season being piecemealed out weekly it will feel a bit of a let down.

This is pretty entertaining. Lots of gunfire. Lots of explosions. And an increasingly dangerous adversary. These things are made for the not to discriminating viewer who wants action. I liked it because there was more thinking involved. The gang wants to believe that their friend and colleague had nothing to do with the violent actions and the running of weaponry. But even more, that nut case Britisher and his pals is getting worse and worse. He would kill his own mother for a buck. There are several scenes of great courage that carry the show along this time The final few minutes at the gravesite of a friend who died in New York proves to be quite challenging. Well done.

The adventures of Dumb and Dumbest...

This adaptation of the excellent book by Lee Child makes my brain hurt.

The constant explaining of the plot by the 4 musketeers is painful and does nothing to maintain or build the tension.

It's like the script writer took Lee Child's book and stuck it in Chat GPT and wrote the prompt "rewrite this so a 6 year old could understand".

The dialogue is awful. One 'action packed' episode had the plucky quartet sit in a diner for 20 minutes explaining the plot, again... I've seen more action, tension and drama in Driving Miss Daisy!

As one other reviewer wrote, just film the book. Lee Child's dialogue is crisp, efficient and clear. His pacing and plot structure are wonderful. This abomination needs the life choking out of it, as Reacher says in ep. 5.

This is the episode that got me off the Reacher train.

First let me say that I loved season 1. Loved it so much that I watched it twice and recommended it to friends. It wasn't perfect but it made up for its imperfection by having a solid story and a compelling and believable main character and secondary characters.

Season 2 is the opposite with huge plot holes an unbelievable storyline. Especially unpleasant are all the cartoon-like villains that offered for fodder. It's like the gang that can't shoot straight. This episode was particularly bad with what appeared like amateurs tasked to do a job.

Also, although Reacher's acolytes make for an attractive cast, they are not as compelling as season 1's acolytes. Their banter is repetitive ("you don't mess with blah blah blah") and boring and theirs jabs at Reacher just tiresome.

I don't know who wrote this second season but it needed a rewrite before it was filmed.

Reacher and his team spend several minutes at the funeral talking about the status of their investigation, their theories, their next steps, etc. Presumably they had time to discuss all of this with each other prior to this moment, on the way to NY to the funeral. Just dumb... lazy writing. ALSO! They're at the funeral of their friend who was murdered, and they know the same people who murdered him are trying to murder them, yet they all stand around at his funeral with apparently zero situational awareness that this is the perfect place for them to be targeted. Then the whole pursuit through the cemetery, the "pro" hit man who flakes out and acts like he's never done this before, who couldn't hit any of the people running toward him, who ran away firing his weapon wildly behind him. My suspension of disbelief only stretches so far, and this show definitely tests it.

The story and acting in season 2 is just not Reacher. Reacher is not complicated though his character is complex. He makes things right without being vindictive which seems to be the path this season is taking him.

If the story wants to delve deeper into his character then it ought to explore his background and show that Reacher doesn't question who he is or why he is the way he is - he knew from an early age that he is different, he thinks and acts different from others.

That he has an atomic clock in his head would be an interesting topic for the writers to explore.

I will watch the remainder of this season though am unlikely to watch next season.

Phooey. There is a fatal flaw in this story. When there is a scene of 650 top secret missiles, it is being transported by one truck and a single driver. This would never happen. This truck would have been excoreted by a serious security team front and back. There are also notifications that mucy be made to local authorities on the route. While Reacher and his crew are closing in on the reasons why their friends were killed, there is this crazy scene which just seems impossible. Lee Child, though he has abandoned his Reacher, always wrote a very plauible story. This interpretation by the writer of the episode is actually nonsense. A big phooey on this one. 10 phooies.

Television has hit rock bottom

There are very few redeeming features.

It's been a wreck of a series, and progressively getting worse

Walker Texas Ranger. TJ Hooker bad episodes bad

An episode of C. H. I. P.s would have more depth

..............

I think I asking have to use Jason Patrick as a guide.. if he is in it, just avoid

They didn't male much of an effort with this series.

And there are clearly some terrible, terrible actors getting work in Hollywood

The hemchmen in an episode of Scooby Doo or Batman TV series have no depth and believability to them.

Don't bother with this. Avoid. Pass.