I enjoyed the first season of "Reacher" quite a bit. It combined an excellent character with a good story. Whilst I don't think the case in this second run was quite as good, it's still a funny and entertaining action series and I definitely want to watch more.
Neagley (Maria Sten) gets in contact with Jack Reacher (Alan Ritchson) to inform him that another former member of their special investigations unit has been killed. Along with two other members of the squad, David O'Donnell (Shaun Sipos) and Karla Dixon (Serinda Swan), they decide to investigate the death and disappearance of yet another member of the squad, Tony Swan (Shannon Kook) who was working in security for a private defence contractor at the time he vanished.
It's perhaps a little early in the Reacher timeline for a backstory heavy season and yet, here we are. There are a lot of flashbacks in this run, to happier times as the Investigations unit and the bonding process that they all went through. It is usefu thoughl to explain the lengths that Reacher and the remaining team are prepared to go to get justice here. Despite all the violence and the deaths, that are regular occurrences in the run, it's again quite funny. There's even a little vein of metahumour that the series mines from time to time, such as a Terminator reference in the first episode, delivered by Robert Patrick no less.
Maybe I liked the team structure a little less than seeing Reacher as a lone operative against seemingly incalculable odds. Though it has to be said that I did like what both Shaun Sipos and Serinda Swan brought to their characters. I suspect it might be because it made the series seem a little more generic, than the first run did.
But again, I enjoyed it overall and I'll certainly be back for the third season, when that arrives.
Neagley (Maria Sten) gets in contact with Jack Reacher (Alan Ritchson) to inform him that another former member of their special investigations unit has been killed. Along with two other members of the squad, David O'Donnell (Shaun Sipos) and Karla Dixon (Serinda Swan), they decide to investigate the death and disappearance of yet another member of the squad, Tony Swan (Shannon Kook) who was working in security for a private defence contractor at the time he vanished.
It's perhaps a little early in the Reacher timeline for a backstory heavy season and yet, here we are. There are a lot of flashbacks in this run, to happier times as the Investigations unit and the bonding process that they all went through. It is usefu thoughl to explain the lengths that Reacher and the remaining team are prepared to go to get justice here. Despite all the violence and the deaths, that are regular occurrences in the run, it's again quite funny. There's even a little vein of metahumour that the series mines from time to time, such as a Terminator reference in the first episode, delivered by Robert Patrick no less.
Maybe I liked the team structure a little less than seeing Reacher as a lone operative against seemingly incalculable odds. Though it has to be said that I did like what both Shaun Sipos and Serinda Swan brought to their characters. I suspect it might be because it made the series seem a little more generic, than the first run did.
But again, I enjoyed it overall and I'll certainly be back for the third season, when that arrives.