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Critic Reviews
The PlaylistDec 13, 2023
Season 2 Review:
All the components for a helluva good time are here. Ritchson hasn’t lost a step as America’s 21st century answer to the wandering anti-hero archetype, and the show hasn’t forgotten what made the first iteration so entertaining: lots of satisfying ass-kicking by way of a WWE-sized Sherlock Holmes-type. What’s not to love?
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ColliderFeb 7, 2022
Season 1 Review:
It is a show that knows exactly what it is and what it needs to be, providing an entertaining catharsis in seeing Reacher take down those who abuse their power. He is capable of just about anything, for better or worse. ... Whatever path Reacher ends up taking, as long as he is played by Ritchson, the material is in good hands.
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Feb 20, 2025
Season 3 Review:
Alan Ritchson has really hit his stride as Reacher, who gets more dynamic as a character with each iteration. His evolution across these first three seasons has served as a steady foundation for Reacher’s excellent action, and the show’s continued growth has been a blast to witness.
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Feb 1, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Reacher is dumb, breezy, pulpy, and it knows it. That’s the real secret to Santora’s sauce: He understands the violent disposability of airport thrillers like the kind Child writes, leaning into every arch plot point and Southern-fried villain with schlocky aplomb. But none of it works without Ritchson, who was practically born for this role.
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Feb 20, 2025
Season 3 Review:
[Reacher] doesn’t live in anything resembling a rules-based society, either. It’s more like a closed loop existence. And if you’re inside, he’s either helping you or killing you. Everything else gets sorted out in between, which makes for a refreshingly simple, satisfyingly trashy viewing experience.
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Feb 19, 2025
Season 3 Review:
Reacher’s new season 3 buddy Susan Duffy makes a firm case as the strongest supporting character in the series to date, the action is therapeutically brutal, and it remains a righteous good time for those like their heroes hard-boiled and well read, and their bad guys foiled and super dead.
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The TelegraphDec 13, 2023
Season 2 Review:
While the investigative work is absorbing and the badinage lively enough, it boils down to the ultraviolence, which is relentlessly inventive and overblown. The final episode's set-pieces would slot smoothly into Commando or Raw Deal, and there can be no higher praise than that.
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Dec 13, 2023
Season 2 Review:
An unpretentious and well-paced mix of investigation and extrajudicial retaliation, Reacher season 2 is purpose-built Friday night TV. That is, perfect for pounding popcorn while Reacher pounds away onscreen – mostly into the faces and fleshy bits of scattered salvoes of assorted scumbags.
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Feb 3, 2022
Season 1 Review:
The series has a sly, puckish humor and inexhaustible bravado that more than makes up for some of the more ridiculous aspects of the plot. Reacher succeeds thanks to an abundance of charm, an interesting central mystery, a slew of exhilarating fight scenes, and dynamic performances and undeniable chemistry from Ritchson, Goodwin, and Fitzgerald.
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Feb 1, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Reacher the TV series doesn’t have the star power of the films that preceded it, but in many ways, it has the potential to be even more successful. By providing a deeper look into a complex character, Reacher could do for Jack Reacher what Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan did for its titular character in another Amazon series: take an existing franchise beloved by many in a fun new direction.
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Dec 13, 2023
Season 2 Review:
Robert Patrick is the antagonist this season, but the show doesn't rely on household names to draw you in, and that feels like a higher level of difficulty than a lot of what's coming out of Hollywood. The show has to work on its own merits, and that comes down to the writing, which tweaks the Reacher persona in some delightful ways.
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Feb 21, 2025
Season 3 Review:
Fight sequences are fewer this time around, which makes the narrative progression feel sluggish at times, compared to previous rampages. Compensating for all that is the regular reminder that a battle royale is brewing between the title character, played by a 6’3” actor, and a heavy portrayed by a bodybuilder known as the Dutch Giant, a 7-foot, 2-inch tower.
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ColliderFeb 19, 2025
TV Guide MagazineJan 8, 2024
Season 2 Review:
A guilty pleasure? Sure. The bone-crunching battle scenes are outrageously violent, improbable and as formulaic as the plotting, but also satisfying in the way that we're drawn to James Bond's or John Wick's remorseless dispatching of enemies. [8 - 28 Jan, p.8]
Feb 16, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Fortunately for the series, [Alan Ritchson is] gifted enough—and has a sufficient sense of understated humor—to sell a Reacher-worthy combination of menace, cynicism and even grudging warmth. It's something that helps make the show one of the more watchable on TV, where there's certainly no shortage of crime series.
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Feb 4, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Under showrunner Nick Santora ("Scorpion"), "Reacher" doesn't suffer from any illusions about its objectives, serving up an unpretentious action series that's as much a course correction from the movies as an extension of them. Taken on those terms, this version of "Killing Floor" isn't a bad way to kill time. The only irony is that while Reacher has gotten bigger, it's the picture (or rather, the screen) that got smaller.
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Feb 1, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Reacher doesn't commit to that fun side of the character as much as it could. It's safely played to capture fans of Amazon's other popular Jack, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, and it should do the trick, but Reacher, which is a perfectly fine dad show but not a must-see, doesn't have aspirations to go much further beyond that.
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Feb 3, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Ritchson’s physique cuts the right figure, and he has the charm needed to split the difference between Child’s brutal Reacher and Cruise’s version, which replaced the conspicuous brawn with stealth and guile. ... The deficiency is Reacher himself, a character beloved for qualities that leave him ill-equipped to anchor a serialized drama.
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Feb 1, 2022
Season 1 Review:
So now we’ve had Jack Reacher adaptations that have been annoyingly uninterested in the source material and frustratingly over-faithful to the source material. I prefer the Amazon version, and I wouldn’t mind another season, but I’d probably still rather read another book.
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