Reacher - Amazon TV series 2022

Martini1991 said:
What a waste of a character.
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And heavily telegraphed too which is unusually poor writing compared to S1 - Spoilers - When Russo had that conservation on the doorstep I knew they wouldn't last the episode alive and figured pretty much how it'd go down too to give them a "good" ending, only I guessed that Reacher would be holding their hand at the end.

Elsewhere I felt it was a better episode but still missing the magical x-factor that S1 had, and I still think its "too much team, not enough Reacher" despite me liking the team (actors and characters).
 
AndyCr15 said:
Yeah, are we entirely sure he didn't think it was NYPD after him?
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Exactly. He mentioned when on the phone to Reacher that it could be either his corrupt bosses men or terminator bad guys men.

Anyway, this season is definitely different to season 1. The team, the travelling across states, the big city setting. Season 1 was great, with it's small setting in comparison.

Season 2 is different, I'm only enjoying it slightly less than season 1 overall. Not read or don't care about the books.


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AndyCr15 said:
And to me, it's pretty lazy writing. Dies, leaving cover and slowly walking towards men with automatic guns... wow, who would have though!
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See, I can almost understand that tactic but for a very specific "TV show" reason, but even then, in reality, its still wouldn't make full sense - He knows the girl is the target, he knows if she runs away the bad guys will shoot at her, so he needs to give the gunmen a more important target/threat to shoot at which he decides will be is him, so it doesn't "work" if he uses the car for cover with his last magazine, hence the slow walk out knowing he'll probably die but giving the girl the best chance - In reality I think he'd just stay behind the car and shoot from there as that gives him the best chance of taking out the bad guys with accurate fire, and that would be the distraction needed by the girl to escape.
 
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AndyCr15 said:
Yeah, are we entirely sure he didn't think it was NYPD after him?
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It was so ridiculous. There would be multiple precincts or colleagues he trusted, anywhere safer than a many mile long pursuit through somehow empty city streets.

I appreciate the show is meant to be a bit daft and OTT but this series has been pretty bad. Hired assassin's who can't hit static targets with sniper rifles and then do a runner when it kicks off. Then you have Biker gangs who street brawl with women half their size and don't even put a mark on their face.

I've watched 6 episodes so they must be doing something right. But man it's been a stupid 6 episodes.
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