I finished the series last night. It was better than I expected and happy to say it. As someone else said, I expected Reacher to look older even though the numbers work for his age.

Finally, a show the wife and I enjoy together

It does bother me a bit that they do a terrible job of faking a GA town. I noticed it right away, the first give away was the Spruce trees everywhere

I heard a podcast with Lee Childs, and he said that the way he wrote the character, no real person would really fit the role.

Thought that was interesting in his perspective.

My wife and I started the series on Monday when we realized after 1 episode that Billions season 6 had morphed into a total woke suck-fest.

So we started Reacher instead and have been doing 2 episodes a night. She didn't want to see it because the previews made it looks stupid. I had thought so also.
She and I really like and enjoy this. Whoever made that preview should be out of a job.

I suspected he wasn't tall enough and the other actors were cast (as with Cruise) to make him look larger. But he speaks well and intelligently, can actually act, and when he wants to, can move like a cat. I suspect that last one is why they cast him. You don't find too many giants that can move like that.

My wife also contends that he speaks and acts like someone 'on the spectrum' sometimes. Someone else mentioned this as well. Maybe they just want people to wonder.

Also noticed the kid actor they have cast for Reacher as a kid is the same one playing Will Robinson in the Amazon Lost in Space Re-Boot. I thought the flashbacks were well done as well.

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Episode #5 I was impressed.... Reacher and his two conspirators are brain storming about what to do and he gets an epiphany and goes to draw a diagram on the regional map on the wall and reaches on a desk for a magic marker.... two second shot of him pulling the marker out of the jar:



Probably the most regionally accurate scene in the movie.

I missed something.
Who was "The Viking"?
Did we actually see him at some point?

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Originally posted by RichardC:
I missed something.
Who was "The Viking"?
Did we actually see him at some point?

If I remember right (old man memory) he was the partner of the dirty cop that was driving Reacher and Gedly(?) after the rendezvous with the CI. The copy mentioned that the Viking had been his partner in the past and he had either killed him or he had dies some other way.

I thought the Viking was that guy who got choked out on the fire escape by his tie. Didn't Finley call Reacher, ask about the Viking and Reacher says "That was a dead end."

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Originally posted by Strambo:
As a big fan of the novels I love the show. I think it nails the character and overall vibe.

I also like the first TC movie, he acted the part well.

So you know the books. Can you comment on how the Amazon series Reaches seems to speak like he's somewhat autistic or in the spectrum with his answers? That's how some of his lines came across to me.

I did like all the sows except for the final fight with the ultimate bad guy; a better final "monster" to fight the climactic fight would have been better. Nothing in the previous episodes built up the guy to be anywhere near a match for Reacher.

It's been awhile since I read Killing Floor but I've read every novel, some more than once, and to me the "tone" is almost perfect (except too high pitched, needs to be deeper).

Reacher's emotions are powerful and deep and dark and not on the surface at all. And he "cares" little about people except for expecting (and returning) courtesy in basic interactions and a strong dedication to fellow soldiers, and a strong dislike for discourteous people.

And if anything, the show made the situation more than a match for Reacher. In the books, Reacher is absolutely unmatched physically except for a handful of times (in 25+ books).

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Originally posted by AllenInWV:
I thought the Viking was that guy who got choked out on the fire escape by his tie. Didn't Finley call Reacher, ask about the Viking and Reacher says "That was a dead end."

**************SPOILER!!!!!!!!!!!!!*************

New York was a "dead end" (insert yuks here). The Viking died of cancer 3 (?) years prior and (big reveal) was the FBI guy's ex-partner, which Reacher finds out by coming into the house (while being told this by Neagley) and having said guy holding the women at gunpoint.

Ahhhhhh! The whole "lucky guess" thing on the phone. Thanks!

It wasn't bad, until Reacher went into the final fight with just a pistol and not enough magazines. Shit like that bothers me. Especially when all through the series the main character keeps saying that details matter.

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It wasn't bad, until Reacher went into the final fight with just a pistol and not enough magazines. Shit like that bothers me. Especially when all through the series the main character keeps saying that details matter.

Yeah, and when Roscoe first opened that box and gave Reacher the Desert Eagle, there were two mags in the box. He only took one, that I saw.

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Originally posted by Blume9mm:
Episode #5 I was impressed.... Reacher and his two conspirators are brain storming about what to do and he gets an epiphany and goes to draw a diagram on the regional map on the wall and reaches on a desk for a magic marker.... two second shot of him pulling the marker out of the jar:



Probably the most regionally accurate scene in the movie.

Details matter.

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Originally posted by BigSwede:
Finally, a show the wife and I enjoy together

It does bother me a bit that they do a terrible job of faking a GA town. I noticed it right away, the first give away was the Spruce trees everywhere

I think fake was the point. If I recall the book, the town was “too perfect”.

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Originally posted by Rey HRH:

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Originally posted by Strambo:
As a big fan of the novels I love the show. I think it nails the character and overall vibe.

As for any inaccuracies, I can ignore them, the author Lee Child is a Brit. He does a better than average job but he isn’t and can’t be expected to be a Stephen Hunter.

I also like the first TC movie, he acted the part well.

So you know the books. Can you comment on how the Amazon series Reaches seems to speak like he's somewhat autistic or in the spectrum with his answers? That's how some of his lines came across to me.

There’s nothing in the books about him being on the spectrum. It’s just I think the interplay of Reacher’s very unorthodox approach to life, the lines and the actor.

I bet the actor will really improve 2nd season as he gets a lot more comfortable with the character. He’s read all the books and is a fan.

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He’s read all the books and is a fan.

I'm happy to hear that.

I love his sense of humor. Many LOL lines.

Mrs. vinnybass & I finished it up last night. We enjoyed it & would watch another season. I liked his sense of humor.


SPOILER FOLLOWS!!!


My main hang-up was how Junior fared initially against Reacher at the end. Judging from the way Reacher dispatched every one else in the series, he should have mopped Junior post-haste. I guess that's a TV cliche for you.

Same thing with Junior's buddy when Reacher goes after him and the others in the house... that skinny rut of a guy would not have had a chance against Reacher and he's beating him all to hell with the crow bar...