The first season was very good, but they seem to have "cheaped out" on this second season, at least so far. Everything that makes the books good was in the first season, but ALL of that seems to have been dropped at the beginning of season 2.
This second season starts off like a comic book version of Reacher, a pale ghost of its former self. Lacks his subtlety. The jokes are bad. Everybody's chanting "You don't mess with the special investigators." The cleverness of Reacher's deduction skills has been reduced to successfully finding the bathroom. It takes really smart writers to write really smart mysteries. The dialog seems cheesy. The special investigators are disappointing.
I don't know who's writing or directing this (different people for every episode), but they are in some danger of ruining the franchise, and getting cancelled. What a shame that would be, when there are 20+ books to go!
Episode 4 seems to have recovered some of the style and substance of season 1, and of the books. Let's hope it continues upwards from here. I'd love to watch good Reacher for years to come! Please don't let me down!
This second season starts off like a comic book version of Reacher, a pale ghost of its former self. Lacks his subtlety. The jokes are bad. Everybody's chanting "You don't mess with the special investigators." The cleverness of Reacher's deduction skills has been reduced to successfully finding the bathroom. It takes really smart writers to write really smart mysteries. The dialog seems cheesy. The special investigators are disappointing.
I don't know who's writing or directing this (different people for every episode), but they are in some danger of ruining the franchise, and getting cancelled. What a shame that would be, when there are 20+ books to go!
Episode 4 seems to have recovered some of the style and substance of season 1, and of the books. Let's hope it continues upwards from here. I'd love to watch good Reacher for years to come! Please don't let me down!