daver6

I binge watched the first two series over two nights. Enjoyed the first one, much less so the second one which fast became tiresome and irritating.

Why tiresome and irritating? The public gunfights where no one calls the police, machine gun-blazing car chases on unrealistically empty main city roads, inept villains that cannot shoot straight, Neagley's smugness and out-fighting men three times her size and power (actresses like her never realise that Sigourney Weaver's Ripley was genuinely tough without trying to be like a man), story lines too long, the unrelenting sentimentality, etc etc. Just so many things. However, the actor playing Reacher was ideally cast from a physical perspective and Dixon was nice eye-candy.

I read many of the Reacher books themselves (charity shops are full of them) and abandoned quite a few of the books half way through because the stories were not interesting, they were over-long and Reacher's infallibility became tedious. That is why I probably enjoyed Cruise's first Reacher film more than the TV series as the film was short, it had an interesting storyline, and the script/acting was far superior.