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I loved The Reacher season one on Amazon Prime. It triggered the inner dad-TV show switch in my brain. The show has everything I need. It has a lead who defies authority and works his ass off till the job is done. This same lead character speaks his mind but does it in few words, cutting to the core with sass and wits.
“The second season will be based on the eleventh novel in Child’s Jack Reacher series, Bad Luck and Trouble.”
This one is for me.
I loved The Reacher season one on Amazon Prime. It triggered the inner dad-TV show switch in my brain. The show has everything I need. It has a lead who defies authority and works his ass off till the job is done. This same lead character speaks his mind but does it in few words, cutting to the core with sass and wits.
In a sense, I have a man crush on Jack Reacher. More specifically, Alan Ritchson as Jack Reacher.
I binged watch the first season on Prime, and I am ready to dive into season two head first.
The trailer for season two begins with an absolute beautiful short bang. Reacher, the loner and shadowy extra-buff sheriff helps an innocent women who is being carjacked. The man who doesn’t like to get involved involves himself.
Honestly, is Jack Reacher a bit like Geralt of Rivia? A man who doesn’t like to choose sides, but one who is drawn and compelled to do the right thing and fight against monsters, no matter what form they take?
Maybe that is a leap. But I am willing to take a running start.
Eventually the trailer kicks into the main plot for season two. The official Amazon Prime plot summation is as follows.
Reacher is pulled from his vagabond life by a coded message informing him that a member of the 110th – his elite group of Army Special Investigators – has been murdered. He and some of his former military cohorts reunite to investigate and soon realize the case is bigger than they ever could have imagined.
Unlike season one, Reacher will not be a fish out of water this time around. Racher is going to be surrounded by individuals he theoretically trusts and things like mindedly with. THe only problem is that his elite group of Army Special Investigators are all in grave danger.
THe second half of the trailer sees Reacher kicking ass and even his fellow soldiers being amazed at the damage he can deal. They just need to learn that he does not hit soft. We see our heroes tied up and being prepped for torture. We see our hero setting off car air bags with the weight of his foot. We see explosions and car chases galore.
Everything seems to be a bit bigger in season two. Let’s just pray and hope that season two keeps the same charm that made season one so rewatchable.
It is important to note that the side characters from season one are not returning. We are not going to get the sharp dressed Oscar Finlay (Malcolm Finlay) or the blonde hard-headed bombshell Roscoe (Willa Fitzgerald). I am a tad sad that characters we grew to love are being so easily cast aside, but I would be willing to bet that down the road all the secondary personas come back in some way.
Among the newcomers for season two, I recognize the face of Serinda Swan, who is playing the part of Karla Dixon. The only reason I know Swan is from a truly obscure AE show Breakout Kings that aired from 2011 to 2012. It is a real deep cut.
In terms of the rest of the cast, we have Robert Patrick in the fold, and I am getting a lot of Domenick Lombardozzi in my life. The man most known for Herc in The Wire was recently in Reptile (2023), and the truly disappointing We Own This City on HBO. Robert Patrick is one my brain because I referenced him in my review for Significant Other with the Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) shoutout.
Listen, season one of Reacher blew my expectations out of the water. Credit to Prime for having two “dad” shows that I am all in on, Bosch and Reacher. I get a second helping of the snappy strong man when Reacher season two drops December 15th.
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