Just popped the first episode. Damn, this shit is tight.
>big white dude tours small town America and demolishes everything in his path
>also he's smart af like Sherlock Holmes
I love it, it's everything I want in a series.
Reacher
Just popped the first episode. Damn, this shit is tight.
>big white dude tours small town America and demolishes everything in his path
>also he's smart af like Sherlock Holmes
I love it, it's everything I want in a series.
honestly I'm surprised that a show with a strong and smart white protagonist that doesn't get humiliated got greenlit in the current year. the only other recent show like that I know is Mr Inbetween but it's made by Aussies
Amazon have quite a lot of white guy dadcore shows, which almost makes up for all the ultra high budget shows about ugly brown people with god awful acting, writing and so on, that nobody likes but pretend to on twitter
It's a pretty fun show, but this
is definitely not limited to this one example. there is a lot of very convenient plotting and the protagonists just getting lucky with clues. and some of the fight scenes are absolutely ludicrous. they look slick, but people take damage that would lay anybody out. plot armor is laid on heavy.
It's not *all* that, there's also bits where the characters get to be smart and do smart things, and get ahead by just being a step ahead of the bad guys. but it's definitely got some sherlock tv show dna mixed in with its sherlock book ancestry, and a hefty dose of clancy besides.
Definitely something you can criticize about the show, but ultimately, eh, it's pulp that isn't meant to be deep. Doesn't mean it can't be, but here, I think the point of it is to appeal to the more base desires of seeing a big guy rightfully smash up big bad guys while not having anyone's bullshit. That's fine, as long as you don't turn it into some kind of MUH SIGMA MALE ideology.
What the frick are you talking about
It literally had TWO tom cruise movies as headstart
Is like saying "wooow i'm surprised toy story 2 got greenlit!"
My dad seethes at the fact Tom Cruise was reacher. He’s a huge fan of the books and when he found out a lanky manlet was playing that 7 foot tall gigachad he ranted to me for like 10 minutes about how upset he was
I never knew anything about it so I went in fresh and thought Tom was ok. He clearly went for a more covert mercenary than The Hulk: Human
From what my dad told me, Reachers height/size is basically his entire character. It’d be like if Michael Cera played a reimagining of Batman where instead he’s more subdued and doesn’t fight
The more you paint that in, the less I like it, sounds like a gay power fantasy with no nuance
Basically Superman were his only problem is if he's gonna be a god or not
>sounds like a gay power fantasy with no nuance
I don’t know if “gay” is accurate, but otherwise yea, it’s a power fantasy targeted at middle aged men. It doesn’t try to pretend to be something else
Every power fantasy is gay anon
why is it surprising to you that boomerbait like Reacher has no nuance? it's just a fun show, not high cinema art
Love men who can't handle tom cruise being a badass. That movie was sick and probably better than this show
Ok grandpa go to bed
tom cruise does fine playing a badass. look at top gun or the MI movies. doesn't change the fact that he was badly miscast here or that the reacher movie was generally a steaming pile. it'd be like hiring bruce willis to play the terminator. willis was a fine action star, but it wouldn't make any sense to put him in a role where the character's main attribute is "frickhuge".
I liked the movie. That old director guy as the villain was kino. Herzog
I just can't get into Cruise in anything actiony. He's probably competent but my brain just can't buy it. I like him more in sleezy 80s stuff.
Introduce your dad to Cinemaphile, he'll fit right in.
Terminal list was better. Teacher s2 is so and so
Reacher is fine and enjoyable for what it is. Terminal List is one of the best tv series I've ever seen, to the point that I hope they don't make a s2, because I already know it would be disappointing compared to the first.
Low IQ taste
You sound insecure.
How so?
Attributing entertainment choice to "IQ"? That isn't what an intelligence quotient measures.
It makes you sound like you need to be perceived as having value based on the media choices you make, and a need to display value to anonymous strangers is a sign of latent insecurity (particularly when it's done so in a reactionary rather than declarative way).
I just don't see how any intelligent person can think the show is good because the content and dialogue are so knuckle-dragging. All I'm saying.
>knuckle dragging
Nah you’re thinking of oh lawd dem rangs
2 things can be knuckle dragging at the same time.
You got wrecked by
You should stop because you ARE a moron.
The notion that liking a show as unbelievably stupid as Reacher could be an indication of stupidity is hardly unreasonable. And replying with "you're just insecure" is something I'd expect from a child (or someone dumb and immature enough to enjoy watching Reacher).
>Attributing entertainment choice to "IQ"?
You know what he he means and he's right
There are some shows you'd have to be a moron to watch, and some shows too smart for the average joe
You sound really insecure.
I have 140iq and love slop.
Look: If your cognitive abilities allow you to appreciate shows that demand high intelligence or lots of education, then that's fine. And yes, people who don't have these are limited in that they can't enjoy those shows. But if you in turn can only enjoy intelligent shows, you are also limited. That makes you a midwit. The truly enlightened can willingly turn off parts of their brain to enjoy stupid things and then they can go and watch complex kino.
>it's a simple concept so it's low iq
midwits like you are the worst
>butthurt black boi is butthurt
No one wants to watch you chimps. Deal with it KEK
gary stu
Smart, strong, affable golden retriever face, doesn't want any trabble, just wants to enjoy pie and coffee in peace. He's literally me.
Anon. He's good looking, tall, Cinemaphile as frick, strong, badass, smart, decent hairline and an overall Chad.
Explain how he is "Literally" you.
The pie and coffee paart
I'm somewhat tall, slightly above average looking, pretty Cinemaphile and strong (that's been important to me for years). I'm wickedly smart and have my grandfather's full head of hair. I lost my virginity while I was still young enough for it to matter, and now I just want to enjoy my pie and coffee in peace, and I'll break the arms of anyone who tries to stop me, unless they're armed with a badge, in which case I'll carefully bide my time and make sure I win in the end.
So yeah, he's literally me, it's just a matter of degrees.
>He's good looking, tall, Cinemaphile as frick, strong, badass, smart, decent hairline and an overall Chad
Literally me
he's literally me except for the part about being tall, strong, badass, smart, good looking, and overall chad
everything about him especially when he fricks. its all literally me
I'm not watching this shit or probably coming back to this thread or scrolling beyond this point but why does this guys head look photoshopped like is this what roids do
i wish there were more gratuitous sex scenes. like banshee.
Agreed. But remember, that era of beautiful actresses is all gone now. Girls like Lili Simmons have been replaced by whatever mystery meat b***h they can find off a street corner.
I read the first book in the series and holy frick is the writer bad. I don't know if that was 'babbys first novel' but the story of him magically going to some rando town because some black guitar player he liked lived there like 40 years ago and stumbling into a crime, and oh yeah it just so happens the barber knew him and introduced him to that guitar players sister who tells him a story of how he was lynched and who did it? THE BIG BAD GUY LYNCHED HIM
Also he's fricking the hot single girl cop by the midpoint in the book! And oh yeah the entire town works for this guy who is mayor! And the entire force is in his pocket! and he kills the henchmen one at a time with a blackjack
Not to mention the annoying words the guy used. Every action was 'He snicked off the safety' 'he jinked open the lock' 'wienered and locked'
oh yeah and I forgot to mention - his brother JUST SO HAPPENED TO BE KILLED IN THIS TOWN INVESTIGATING A CRIME!
And he didn't know that! He had legit no idea!
on hindsight it's clear the brother told him about the musician as a way to get him into the town where the brother was already investigating the dirty stuff that got him killed
>his brother JUST SO HAPPENED TO BE KILLED IN THIS TOWN INVESTIGATING A CRIME!
You know, I was gonna let it slide, but since you're complaining about it... it's established that Joe specifically led Jack to Margrave. There's a coincidence, but only a temporal one- Jack happened to be there at the time Joe was killed. Whenever this occurs in a story, if it becomes an object of critique, I always examine: If you took this coincidence out, would the story still work? Joe could have died earler; a day, a month, hell, a year. It would still leave Reacher plenty of opportunity to realize something fishy was going on and to get involved investigating his brother's death. Maybe the trail would be a little colder, but everything would still work. So in this case, the coincidence is not an issue worth complaining about. QED
I was gonna let it slide, but I just have to tell you: your show sucks ass, Nick
yeah, in that case. but the coincidences in reacher are a constant. the person he needs to talk to is always still alive, his random ass guesses (like in the sherlock show) are always on the nose even when they're probabilistic, the first place he looks there's always a clue, when the plot slows down there's always some henchmen who try to kill him but he luckily counter-ambushes them and finds a clue on their bodies. once or twice would be a freak thing, lucky, but stuff like that just happens over and over.
there's a scene in S1E1 that shows this perfectly where the detective mentions the body by the highway was covered in a cardboard box and he immediately deduces like 10 facts about the crime, and the detective is like "aw yeah, that's all exactly right". the sherlock show was full of scenes like that; it even had one in its own first episode (the infamous drunk guy's phone charger bit). firmly in Smart People Are Indistinguishable From Wizards territory.
like some of that is sensible - eg an experienced assassin picks up his bullet casings - but most of it is so far out in conjecture land that the chance of any of it being right, never mind ALL of it, isn't better than a fraction of a percent.
I like the show in spite of that, don't get me wrong. it's fun. but you never really get away from the artificiality of it. just because everything in the plot is so fricking convenient. like the writer is applying chekhov's gun logic to every object that appears in frame.
>writes 3,000 words explaining how deeply offended he is that people enjoy simple boomer power fantasy
Really, anon?
said I liked the show. you just can't read or what?
been saying this the entire thread since I read the book
it's fricking terrible
I just can't get over how inconsolably mad this show makes some people, lol
>makes me mad
No I am pointing out how BAD the show and writing is - you are stuck defending this like you yourself wrote it
>he says
>lurking all day in a thread about a show he hates
It's just an amazing level of insecurity.
>lurking
>he's posting
>he's still here
It's really amazing. You could have left at any time, but you can't. You have to stay here, compulsively, pathologically. It upsets you that people enjoy this show. You NEED them to not like it. You need to posture that you're somehow too smart for it, you need to be recognized and lauded for "not liking thing", lol.
You'll be here for the next couple hours, still replying, I'm sure of it. You physically could not stop yourself even if you wanted. I've seen your type on Cinemaphile often enough to know the patterns by now. And you WILL now post "lol didn't read" with a reaction picture that attempts to depict yourself as above it all, because that's how predictable actual low-intellect personages like yourself are. Like an open book
Lol the level of projection in this post is nuclear
Sounds absolutely kino to me. A true traditional hero in a small town adventure story.
eh. He's not a cop, just some dude who blunders into a fricking world wide crime ring of money making and magically knows everything
it honestly is like something a teeenager would write
Sounds great. I'm not sure why anyone would prefer watching some warm garbage "realistic" modern cynical show over great entertainment like this.
I hear what you are saying, but it's slop. I don't read much fiction but gave the first book a shot but it came out way too much like a power fantasy that was a comic hero who doesn't have magic powers for my taste - and it's a bit too formulaic and predictable.
You sound cynical and sad to me. I'm sorry, I don't think we'd get along. You don't seem like you take much joy in entertainment. Can you recommend me your favorite show where everything is awful, life is terrible, there are no heroes, and nothing means anything? I'd love to not watch it.
The Shield (especially the scene where they have no idea what the frick 'marked bills' are and spend hours looking for marks on the bills)
The Wire
Community
>book character is magically all knowing 6'8 power chad who can beat up anyone and has the perfect comeback quips
Enjoy your capeshit fggt
>needs to post söy reaction pics to bolster his insecure strawman
I'm almost embarrassed by proxy ngl
>has no comeback beyond confirming what was in the post
>unironically confirms what the post said was true
>censors himself
Grow a pair of balls you dumb homosexual
>putting yourself on the naughty list the day after christmas
no thanks
I got 364 more days to be a good boy
If you must watch power fantasies, just go full moron and watch shit like Cobra or John Wick. At least that stuff seems to have been written by people who are aware of how ridiculous the films are.
I'm quite enjoying Reacher as well. I'm not sure why that bothers you so.
Yup. You mad?
Awful lotta folks gettin testy in this thread for some reason, projecting their own insecurities more than accomplishing anything else. Real odd iffin you ask me.
He was a military cop and his brother lead him to the town by telling him about the musician. I have no idea how all you morons missed the reason why he's in that town.
In the book he's in that town because randomly he decides to visit this town in the middle of nowhere because it's where this guitarist he liked is from
And then he gets arrested and finds out his brother is dead and there is some massive huge conspiracy where the big bad guy killed that guitarist who was POOR AND BLACK AND BLIND!!!!
Oh - and his brother was investigating this huge crime for the Feds - BY HIMSELF! And he SOLVED IT RIGHT BEFORE HE DIED!
He wrote down, in code - e pluribus unam as a hint to his brother who he magically knew would come and search his dead body.
He didn't call the FBI or the T-Feds.....he simply was like 'ah i will be killed now I'll leave a cryptic note!'
I love how you go out of your way to get mad at a fun hero guy adventure film.
I read the book and just rolled my eyes the whole fricking time
Fine, but this isn't about the book, you're on tv, we're talking about the show where they fixed the thing you're b***hing about
most writers are mentally ill hacks so this tracks
>Damn, this shit is tight.
Sorry, I grew up around black folk. Not black myself but I still use 90s black slang.
>it's everything I want in a series.
Will you be watching it before or after you mow the lawn?
söyjaks are a dead meme ergo your argument fails
NCIS is peak boomercore. I have unironically liked it since it started back when I was in high school.
>Muh white daddy figure role model!!!!
Do piggus really?
>he worships black guys
Sorry you had no father and you mom had to settle for low iq black men desperate enough for white pussy they would smash a single mom, and the only father figure you ever saw was taking your moms paychecks to spend putting rims on his shitbox
>*plops down on lazy boy*
>*let's out unreasonably loud groan*
>*flips open the foot rest*
>*cracks open a Bud*
>"now THIS is entertainment"
The fact that is makes so many söyposting trannies mad is all the proof I need to know this show is kino, lol
Oh cool it's another thread where prisongay incels, bugs, boomers and poos slobber over this guy's dick cuz he's tall
>Cinemaphile:
>manlet: AAAAAAAAARRRGHHHHHHHH WHY AM I SO SHORT
lol
I'm 5'11". Like half a foot taller than the original jack reacher.
You guys are just homosexuals
>I'm a manlet, so I'm angry
Yeah, got it.
Manlets are like 5'6" or under. Which is what most manletposters are when they're not troons or hideous ogres.
Reacher fans are boomer homosexuals, incels and/or Asian. Facts
>manlet tries to explain why he, a manlet, akshually shouldn't be considered a manlet
Manlets, when will they learn?
Cool meme, homosexual
Show is fine. It's the homosexual fans
>I get irrationally upset by what other people like
Not an emotionally strong or stable way to go through life imo but ok
Manlets are under 6 foot Mr 5 foot 10.
Them tall homies do be making my bussy wet
First season is good entertain. Second season starts off very weak with lots of Tag Lines and and Cool Team Lingo.
Will probably give this one a go. Are the fight scenes any good?
Yea. Although it usually boils down to Reacher punching people really hard. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, just go in knowing that it’s not exactly high art
Thanks anon. At this point I'll take anything that isn't spinning modem movie fu bullshit.
They ruin it in season 2
>they're in the army
>one of his team is female
>she’s black
>she’s enlisted
>she’s super smart
Most unbelievable part of the show
Patriot is a better show but admittedly cannot exist without Reacher
Its basically True Detective for morons
I like this show because the mc is just gigachad, just like me
Based
It's a fun show. There's actually way fewer fights than the memes/shitposting imply, it almost makes he wish he'd just beat on a few MORE people, heh. It's more detective work and not-particularly-deep tension, with a recurring bit where someone tells him to do something, and he just says "No." and proceeds with staredowns/threats/explanation of how he'll stop the person trying to force him, with the violence only coming as a last resort. It has le cute white girl cop partner whom he routinely makes look semi incompetent just by existing and being more aware of his surroundings. He's chad gigasuperman and it's fun to just relax and enjoy the ride. Funny watching so many tryhards getting insecure about a good old fashioned hero show.
These Cinemaphile threads are about as non-informative as the ads ive seen for this shit. All the ads show me is a 5 second loop of this dude walking up to a car and smashing the hood before the title pops up. And the only thing ive learned from the threads on Cinemaphile is that the protag is white.
On general terms the show is almost like those old cowboy movies where the lead arrives at a new town and somehow gets sicced on some scheme or conspiracy by bad guys so he decides it's up to him to stop them. When he's done he doesn't stick around to be treated like or rewarded as a hero, he just moves on and continues his adventures. Which is I guess why it resonates with viewers, it's basically a modern version of an old archtype. Plot wise though there's only so much you can talk before you start spoiling stuff.
Sounds nice, too bad neither the official ads nor the opening posts of these threads ever shed any light on what the frick this show is about.
Bro why are you such a whiny b***h?
Cause ive had to look at reacher ads every day for weeks while i wait for my subway train and none of them were informative. And neither were any threads on Cinemaphile
Okay but then someone answered you and you're still whining about it like a fricking b***h.
Eat shit
nta but yeah you kind of sound like you've made your own self mad for no reason. So you "had to" see ads, and that made you so angry you now transfer that psychic damage onto random anons for nothing they did? Weird baggage you got there.
Nothing projects "I'm mad" more desperately posting an "I'm not mad" reaction pic + "didn't read". It's 2023 anon, Cinemaphile is 20 years old, those are the loudest "I'm mad" dogwhistles around. Try again tho 🙂
Yeah a lot of nerds view it as a power fantasy. It makes sense that you would like it.
Sirs, watch this show, Amazon pay me to promote it. I get 50 rupee every post. Please sirs. Is good show.
It's just a comfy show, dunno why the girls are getting so upset.
His constant "dark and brooding" face is actually pretty goofy
He's adorable, it's part of the appeal. He's like a big dumb dog.
>posts "didn't read" to single line of text
lol you read it and got rustled
>walks into thriftstore
>always finds clothes that fit him perfectly to the point they look tailored for him
that broke my disbelief
In one episode he walks into a suit store, the tailor mentions that a football player never picked up his suit, so he can try that. In another episode he has to get new clothes from a fabric donation box, there they make point of him not finding anything that fits and ends up with a t-shirt that is too tight. So what you are saying isn't true.
>the tailor mentions that a football player never picked up his suit
Lol it's like a parody of a power fantasy
woke dogshit
lol
Every single scene in this show is about the white gigachad showing up the woman and the black guy at their own jobs.
try another tactic troonella
But it has black people, therebefore i won't watch
Even if the premise is the white guy being way better than the black guy in every conceivable way?
>noo i can't believe anyone would just start watching this show with a white gigachad and enjoy it, must be a secret psyop
seriously how detached from reality can you get
constantly jumping at spooky sHiLl ghosts on a bangkok lanyard braiding board
Actually, no, seriously think about that irony for a moment: you're so afraid of "shitskin" ghosts, you're running away from something that actually promotes your own race for once. That's amazing. You've become your own worst enemy.
This board is filled with zoomers, which is why they don't "get it", and they're not capable of "getting it". The proof is here,
this guy being all "frick amazon". Zoomers had a smartphone put in their hands when they were born and they were raised to only be able to do what authority tells them. You can't pirate on a smartphone, you can only watch what mommy's credit lets you watch on the official stores, so they lack the concept. For that same reason, they can't understand organic discussion either. Everything either has to be what their authority master says is ok, or else it's a secret plot from some Other authority.
+20 shekels have been deposited to your account
How embarrassing.
What's it honestly like being so miserable you set yourself up to lose arguments you didn't need to have anyway?
+10
keep shilling this garbage
>mindbroken
Kek
I didn't mean to kill your ego, but here we are.
This show is getting shilled hard. And this time the shills are told to act "white" and "manly" instead of the usual shitskinning.
Frick Amazon.
My gf wont let me watch this show anymore cause she says its problematic that it promotes vigilantism among white men.
as someone who owns guns in NJ I reeeee'd fricking hard at the scene where he buys guns in NJ. We have the gayest fricking process for getting a gun and he does none of that shit and the writers pretend there is some loophole that doesn't exist and now morons are going to make the process of getting a gun even more fricking moronic because they think it is like in the show
I might watch cause he sexy and strong
OP's assblast could fill an olympic swimming pool by now
?
???
Its not really my cup of tea but i do think its cool there is a strong white protag that isnt portrayed as a totally neutered cuck for once
This series is moronic and unrealistic. The MC gets into physical fights everywhere he goes because random people antagonize and attack him.
IRL, no one normal sized would ever provoke a 7 foot guy who looks like he could wrestle a bull.
>The MC gets into physical fights everywhere he goes because random people antagonize and attack him.
He actually doesn't. I wish he WOULD. There's more then a few places where it would have been great to watch him break some spines, but then he doesn't. None of the fights I've seen so far are "random" people antagonizing him, they were all paid to do it, except the Black folk in the prison and the boxer he beats up in the bar to interrogate about his crooked guard friend. And the israelite lawyer he strangles with the phone cord. Really, he's the one doing all the antagonizing.
>except the Black folk in the prison
Wrong. They where paid to kill Hobble aka the guy with the glasses. Reacher protected him, and then put on glasses to make the other thugs who where also trying to kill the guy with the glasses target him. Both prison gangs where sent by the Kliners/Venezuelans to tie up loose ends.
The browns were trying to kill Hobble but the Black folk just wanted a b***h.
if race needs to be brought up in anything, it probably means whatever the persons praiaing is mediocre at best
Or Cinemaphile is just a reactionary race baiting shithole
Why the need to read so much into it? It's a fun show that happens to stand out simply for having a super-competent white protagonist who DOESN'T constantly get shit on all the time, like every single other thing Hollywood has produced in the last 10-15 years. You can enjoy it perfectly well WITHOUT it being about race at all, because it isn't. It's just a classic hero show "just like they used to make in the good old days", with modern aesthetics. It's not cynical or degrading or critical-theorist or subversive of institutional morals or simple heroism. The only racial elements come from the "bad" crooked white cops beating up the good black cop, whom the good white hero (only begrudgingly) teams up with. The whole thing's basically just a grownup version of McCloud.
kek, this. More succinct than what I wrote.
He's just your basic Strong Female Protagonist - Male Edition
>He's just your basic Strong Female Protagonist - Male Edition
Those Stronge Female Protagonist all act like males, there is no male edition
he's a big guy
how often are the episodes being released? i assumed weekly but suddenly there were already 4 episodes out
First 3 released together and now it's weekly for the rest.
He got the nickname Reacher from his time in the army. Every time he buttfricked some beta army dude he was still chad enough to give em a reacharound for unit cohesion. Respect
It would be a mediocre show 20 years ago but now its refreshing compared to the amount of subversive slop that passes for television today. If you're wasting time shitting on this show compared to the sea of garbage surrounding it then I have to question your taste. It's a mildly inoffensive boomer power fantasy at worst.
Why does the existence of this show makes people visibly mad?
Really is pretty funny.
Is the guy a good actor? I loved justified
I give this show credit just for having the balls to not use 555 phone numbers.
they are washing dollar bills and turning them into 100s.
>True Detective season 1
>Reacher season 1
I need more of the US south detective/crime corruption genre. Is there more of it?
Justified. If S1 is tough for you skip to like ep 6 or even S2
Just finished the 4th episode of season 2. So far, this season isn’t as good as the first, but I enjoyed getting to see Finley again. He’s pretty based for a black man.
>some people have posted twice, maybe 3 times! how dare you have a conversation on this image board???? post one post and then leave!!!!!
but if that is the case - why wouldn't Jack go to Margrave WITH him?
He has no idea his brother died there
>but if that is the case - why wouldn't Jack go to Margrave WITH him?
Because they said they haven't talked in a while, but Joe had been leaving clues enticing Jack to Margrave. It's really not a big thing to get a spider up your butt about.
Except for the whole 'he died and now you have to pick up the case' plot point - which is fricking dumb.
Again, not something to get a spider up your butt about. You're just being pedantic at this point. It's hero adventure guy solves the mystery crime with vengeance as the motivation. If that's too difficult for you maybe stick with Teletubbies.
And he's no other than thad castle star linebacker and leader of the blue mountain state goats
While an imposing guy, Ritchson is a terrible actor
It's like he went to the Lee Majors School of Acting
Isn't Jack Reacher a tom Clancy character?
You do know you're just proving the SJW's right on how important identification is right?
All your life 99% of shows and movies had a protagonists you could identify with on that level while non-whites and women had little to nothing and were at most sidelined.
Now not every show has your demographic at the forefront and you get a teeny tiny hint of what it's like for minority groups(it's really nothing considering you have the entirety of western entertainment as a backlog)
But nah frick them snowflakes they are out of their minds all black kids love Goku amirite bros xD
Shut up homosexual
So you just.. save gay pictures? Like, on your hard drive and everything? Or is that on your phone?
What a weirdo.
Military good! Police good! Obey! Serve! Authoritarianism good!
Bad criticism. The show literally deals with police corruption, shows that deferring to authority is bad, and portrays Reacher as a vigilante. Do you also think Batman was about how the police is great and authorities are super because James Gordon was a good guy?
I'm sorry do you need #BLM #DefundthePolice ?
Go back
Yea, it's good. I don't know how Amazon who made shit like Rangz or The Boys but managed to get Reacher right without shoving gay political shit.
They probably filled their substantial woke quota, and had some leftover money to throw at the more conservative viewer base.
this show is an example of how Netflix should have treated The Witcher series, it's absurd how badly they fricked it
Yeah, I'm still mad.
1st season was pretty good. Doesn't take itself extremely seriously (god I love Reacher's autism, it honestly makes the show for me), has some interesting themes, action is mostly really good.
2nd season so far is a bit eh. Maybe it's because I'm watching the seasons back to back, but it's getting a bit too "OH REACHER, what have you done now you silly rascal?". Yeah I know that dynamic was in the first season too, but it felt a bit more balanced there.
yeah.
i also dislike how much of a psycho he is in season 2, and how much of a pussy the cop is.
>reacher murders like 10 people
>cop rightfully arrests him for murder
>brings him in but says he's not even going to put reacher away for life if reacher helps him find the mastermind behind one previous murder (?)
>the cop begs reacher to help him but accidentally says one of reachers friends might be a weak suspect
>reacher announces he will now beat the cop to death for this, and commands him to undo his handcuffs
>the cop does this without question and appeals to reacher to not murder him in his own police station
>reacher agrees and tells the cop he works for him now
>reacher then spends the rest of the 3 episodes murdering basically anyone he sees, while the cop repeatedly begs reacher to maybe not murder people so much, if its at all possible
i liked the first season because he was mostly beating the shit out of unlikeable bad guys, but in the second season he's just murdering hundreds of faceless goons with impunity, like random bikers and shit.
the only good parts are where he beats up the drug dealers and the kidnappers.
I mean, he was always a psycho, you see that during the childhood flashbacks. Telltale signs of sociopathy in there, except for having some empathy. Still, Reacher's sense of morality is basically "I have my idea of what's right and if you interfere with it, I will beat you up and your rules don't apply to me." It's just good that he's, well, largely on the side of the good guys. He's basically a superhero in that sense.
But the problem is that the whole thing is too grounded still to apply the same standards as to someone like Batman, IMO. Season 1 was okay because, yes, it was a bit more realistic.
The problem with S2 is, we now have several Reachers. So naturally, the amount of goons needs to increase and the carnage thus also increases. I mean frick, the pipe bomb in a residential neighborhood? It's getting a bit too slapsticky, maybe. On the other hand, silly could work with Reacher because frankly, he IS silly. His waddly walk, his autism...I'll have to see how the rest of S2 develops.
Actually kinda funny how backwards people seem to get this show though. There's way fewer fights in it than it seems, and rather than the MC being the superhuman gigachad he looks like, all the skinny venezuelans he fights hold their own way better than they have any right to. And Reacher continually makes mistakes in judgement that lead to people with information he needs getting away, getting killed, or otherwise throwing wrenches into his own investigation. At best, his Hulk Smash routine just prevents anyone he could have squeezed for actual clues from staying alive. This shit is far from any Gary Stu, anyone who says that hasn't watched it. The only thing he does great at is random encounters with town rowdies, which shouldn't be surprising.
Don't like his new girl
Post a pic.
>reading through the series
>reacher as a 24 year old man had the hots for his COs 15 year old daughter
Wew
hlm
just when i thought he couldnt be literally me anymore
Which book? I have them all but have only read a few
Why did you get them if you're not reading them?
Tripwire, the third one.
The character's name is Jodie and she(aged up, the book takes place like 15 years later) is the main love interest.
They have this dumb little "I want to frick him/her but I bet he/she looks at me like the big brother/little sister"
I will now read your novel
WHY WOULD ANYONE TRY TO FIGHT HIM
It took me out of the show, it is very stupid. Some guys were 160 lbs
manlets never learn
lmao little Cinemaphile losers are such hypocrites. You nerds watch this trash. It's garbage.
i like watching trash
i do not like watching Black folk and trannies
Go watch rebel moon, it's flopping
if you don't like this show you literally were not born in the 80s or 90s
i love 80s and 90s action movies, but those had actual choreography and charismatic leads.
LMAO, can you broadcast you're a liar any harder.
I started watching The Terminal List after seeing this thread, I'm already on episode 3. Pretty good so far.
Might check Reacher out next.
The only thing that disappoints me about hero man action shows/movies like this is in the end they always just kill the bad guys with a quick ol bullet and never go full ham making them suffer like they made all their victims suffer. I guess psycho boy did burn to death with a face full of chemicals but really why don't they ever just string up the bad guys and torture them for several days?
Reacher is pure kino