Outstanding. I love the show.

Cool. This is one of those guilty pleasure kind of shows.

No doubt. You aren't watching it for acting brilliance or fantastic cinematography.

Which pretty much tells you that they've captured the essence of the novels pretty well.

Lee Childs ain't exactly Tolstoy.

Really enjoyed the first season and looking forward to where they are going to take the second.

The lead actor seems much more believable than Tom Cruise; his first movie was okay and I didn't bother with the second one...

I've read all the books and the Tom Cruise movies were entertaining. I had to get over Tom not being a gigantic human being, but most people never read the book who saw those movies...

I love season 1 of this as it really followed the book to a T and it is how I always pictured Jack Reacher to be when reading the book.

Can't wait for Season 2.

As the Critical Drinker calls it, definitely a delicious bacon cheeseburger show.

One of the movies was on the other night and it was so terrible it took me about 3-4 minutes to determine that it wasn't in fact satire and I'm supposed to believe a 5ft 6inch 140lbs Tom Cruise it out there smoking guys twice his size.

"Remember.....you asked for this"

Just in case I haven't mentioned this before - Rosamund Pike is hot as the surface of the sun in that movie.

Yes. Yes she is. Not even all that good of a performance, but she is blazing hot.

Just curious how old you are.

He sure was convincing beating the living shit out of those goons in the prison bathroom.

42. I think - old enough that I have to do the math.

It's just easy for me to suspend disbelief with Cruise at this point. I've watched him play assassins and action heroes for essentially a quarter century at this point. There's just very little that's a bridge too far with him for me. Though admittedly, this one was pushing it a bit.

Compare it to the visceral violence of the Amazon series and yeah, it's nowhere near as convincing. But again - when it's Cruise, I just shut up and eat my popcorn.

Cruise is such a good actor that even though he's on the Mt. Rushmore of Scientology, people still flock to all his movies. He's great in everything and charismatic as hell.

Alot of shows on Amazon actually premier in the US a day before there scheduled date. The Wheel of Time was always scheduled for Friday (I think) release, but was available at like 7 pm CST.

I believe he left Scientology.

In the first movie Cruise nailed the dry sarcastic wit of Reacher. I didn’t struggle with adaptation. I do enjoy the Amazon series more. I have read almost all the books. Working on the most recent now.

We did believe a 5'8" Rocky knocked out a huge Russian...

He did?

I thought that would be pretty big hollywood news. At least if I was his publicist I'd make it big news.

Yeah, I mean... he was the face of Scientology.

Edit: I am saying yeah, I agree with you on your statement. Not yeah, he left Scientology.

BLAZINGGGGGGGGGG

That said, she is so batshit crazy in Gone Girl that I can't seem to eliminate her being anything but a complete psycho.

The hot crazy index seems to be appropriate here.

It dropped early... Episode 1 is available

Edit: 2 and 3 also

"Who is Sarah Connor?"

LMAO

That was pretty funny but to be honest this first episode isn't giving me warm fuzzy vibes about the writing. The writing was just plain shitty... quick, we need a password guessed but you can only use three guesses in 2 minutes before it is erases... wtf? That was probably the worst but there was plenty of stinkers.

7 minutes of entertainment.

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nah, they follow the way it is in the books. It's fiction. I can enjoy Superman movies knowing people really can't fly.

Shows having good writers are required even when they are trying to follow a book. They need to change stupid shit and make it better for an audience. That wasn't much better than having some guy show up that could fly in the show with Reacher. It would be just dumb to do that. So was that part with the guessing the password bit. Just dumb. Another one was the dumb ass thing about the mail box. Oh... you are so smart cause he guessed that he would store something in the post office across the street herpa derpa... Oh he would have a box on the right side because his penis hangs that way... herpa derpa.

The show is fun to watch, but yeah the writing is just outright awful in some parts. Too much goofy cliched nonsense.

Like when he was a kid, his entire family called him by his last name? LOL. The constant "Big guy" references. The absurd way he makes a bunch of assumptions in tracking down people and things. Definitely a lot of cringe.

That report stems from him not going to the UK branch of Scientology. Clearwater is a big Scientology town. He’s been spotted around here this summer.

Reacher's whole persona, if you have read the books, is his intuitiveness and ability to access a situation quickly and determine what most likely took place. On the mailbox, with hundreds to choose from he deducted the general area and size of the box that he would have used, eliminating most of the boxes. The writers would have put that in to show a pattern to folks who haven't read the books and are new to the series. I enjoyed the 3 episodes out as I can suspend reality for action movies. Sounds like you didn't.

You don't have to suspend reality with good writing. And you can write in intuitiveness and the ability to access a situation quickly and not have dog shit writing. It is the difference between good writers on a show and shit writers on a show.

The next two episodes were a bit better than the first but the first one was horrible.

It's shit like that that just kills a show/movie for me.

Yeah - this isn't a show that needs an Academy Award winning screenplay or anything, but boy - this is pretty rough.

It's doing that network television detective show shit where they are just WAY too omniscient in their guesswork. I hate that shit. "Well he has gin in his fridge {insert 7 degrees of nonsense}...HE'S HIDING IN A YURT IN ANTARCTICA!!!"

Too many massive stretch plot devices so far. It's dumb even by dumb entertainment standards. I hope it improves.

Did you ever watch Sherlock?

The difference here is the difference between good episodes of Sherlock and bad ones.

Obviously Holmes intuition is essentially the entire character. And when they had a great episode (Reichenbach) they demonstrated it in a fairly natural manner; definitely gripping if nothing else. But when it's bad, they just hammer it in there (His Last Vow).

I understand the need to do it as that's part of the character. But there's a way to do it well and better written shows have. Hell, this one did it better last season. Thus far it's just been forced in, IMO.

As, I said before, I think they are spoon feeding it early, but I still find it entertaining, like most action movies. I still remember Mel Gibson chasing Gary Bussey in a car on foot in Lethal Weapon for blocks and catching him entering the freeway, yet it was still entertaining.

I laughed out loud when Robert Patrick said "Who gives a shit??" when he was asked who Sarah Connor was.

This show ain't Shakespeare in the Park, but it's like a big sloppy cheeseburger when you're starving and don't want to eat healthy.

This latest episode was as bad as a 70's cop show or the old westerns.



JFC :shake:

Biggest complaint I have is that Reacher has 'God Mode' turned on. He's never wrong. He's never injured.

Everybody saying "Hey, Swan's dirty" and Reacher won't admit it. So you KNOW he isn't. It's just a matter of giving us the 'twist' that proves that Reacher was right all along.

I don't mind a damn competent protagonist but the problem with Reacher's infallibility is that it becomes a Chekov's Gun of sorts. His unwavering belief in Swan gives the story away because you know he's going to be proven right in the end.

I agree. It happens way too often. Too many of the people who make these things think 'if a little bit does a little good then a lot of it has to do a lot of good' and it sucks.

I'll watch the rest of this season but I doubt I'll invest much time in any more of it.

Have to agree with both of you. This season has been a complete let down and I loved the first season. It was great even if some of the things you guys mentioned happened a bit in that season as well. The first season just seemed to work. It is almost like the writers just dialed it in on this one.

I blame the writers strike.

Hopefully the next one is better.

ya this season sucks, can't get even get past the first two episodes

loved the first season, bummer

I'm enjoying season 2 and I think it's great.

The cheese and invincibility of the good guys is definitely ramped up a bit but I’m still enjoying it.

I still enjoy it for what it is, but yes, they need to put a little more effort into the writing. Unfortunately I think that's a symptom of many TV shows and movies these days. Writing talent seems to be lacking.

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And have I pointed out how hot Dixon is yet?

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Neagley is packing some heat, as well

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The fact that Amazon refuses to give me a little gratuitous nudity with Dixon just makes me angry.

My word she's good lookin'

And there isn't a look she couldn't pull off. You want upscale professional? Done. Insecure secretary - she'll rock a 9.5 there. Slutty nurse/stripper - she'd kill it.

Total package of hot.

She looks good in military dress, jeans and a t-shirt, and my lord how she rocked that dinner dress (couldn't find an image, dammit).

To steal Buehler's line - I'd win wars for her.

Found one!

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:drool:

Dixon

I don't really need to expand on anything already said above. Just wanted to show support.

Last couple eps have been meh.

They did get me with the "I'll tear out your trachea and your last thought will be 'holy shit he actually did it'." line. I laughed pretty hard at that.

The books are full of cliches, and instead of doing like they did with Jack Ryan and only using the name, they are being pretty true to the Reacher books.

I'll take that every time over the writers deciding to go off the reservation.

This show is ****ing great. Not because it is well written, but because it isn't and they lean fully into just how bad it is. Which makes it awesome.

A bit of research and I sadly couldn't find any nudes of her.

My favorite scene is when he kicked the detective's car and set off the air bag. I LOL'd!

The embolism thing was just cold.

Part of me wants to point out that but I'm just going to keep enjoying the ride instead.

I noticed that too. And those doors are probably locked/coded.

I remember watching 'Man of Steel' and during the last fight scene the wanton carnage was SO over the top that I turned to my wife and said 'shit, he should've just let 'em win. Or maybe fight in central Kansas or something? This will have the economic and societal impact of like 5 nukes being dropped in the city...'

I got taken out of the movie. That's never a good thing.

Here they've just gotten SO murdery that it took me out of the show.

This has become obligation watching. I'd far prefer spend an hour on Foundation instead. This just isn't very good.

The last episode didn't do what they thought it would.

But I'll watch Reacher **** shit up all the time.

Yeah, they didn't quite stick the landing. I was still entertained, though. I'll definitely be back for season 3.

And even battered and bloody. Dixon is still a damned smokeshow. Dammit, girl.

It wasn't amazing, but the finale did enough box-checking for me. Enjoy the overall story. Onto Season 3

I'm hoping for 2 things out of season 3. One, better writing which we've talked about. Two, he doesn't need to be so big. I might be in the minority, but I thought he was big enough in the first season. He was much slower/plodding in this season. He seemed winded half the time.

I won’t argue that. He hit the roids hard between S1 and S2.

The action was better in S1 even if the final battle was a little over the top.

But I’ll watch that dude crush fools any time.

I thought this season was kinda flat.

Dixon, however, was not

I'll watch the next season but JFC the damn God mode bullshit has taken it down from a solid 9 to a 7.

I keep reminding myself as I watch it that it's not that type of show, but the logic holes still bothered me. Particularly at the end. The only thing dumber than Reacher turning himself in was T-1000 not immediately shooting him in the head when he did. Especially once he found out Neagley was alive.

It might have made sense if they had something T-1000 needed, but all it was is that he "didn't like loose ends". He could have just left early for the meeting with arms dealer and been totally fine.

I'm not going to say anything bad about it; for me, the first season was something that I looked forward to each episode and after watching the first two episodes of season two, I've completely forgotten that it's on at all.

No, she was not

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I just learned she was Zatana on the Smallville show from 20-ish (!) years ago

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And she was on the Rock's show Ballers

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Yeah, she might have been the best thing about this season, honestly.

Finally watched the last two episodes. Could've been better. Occurred to me that Reacher is basically Mack Bolan (maybe someone else has read the Mack Bolan: The Executioner series by Pendleton). Trashy action books along the lines of Marvel's The Punisher. Same kind of shallow writing, but was a fun read for me in my teens.

Wasn't as good a season one, but I was entertained.

Reacher is the #2 streaming show, #1 original. Young Sheldon is somehow #1 overall.

https://www.nielsen.com/data-center/top-ten/

:shake:

We may have reached the point in our society where it's best to drown us all in gasoline and light the fire.

I’ve read all of Lee Child’s Reacher novels, and I think it’s just like anything else. The movie is never going to be as good as the book.
I sit through the whole movie, comparing it with the book, and I can’t enjoy it.
Killers of the flower moon was the same way.
I hate watching movies that I have read the book.
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LOTR was one of the few adaptations that were arguably better than the book. And if nothing else, were definitely something that added to the readers experience.

Maybe…I see your point, but I devoted a lot of time reading all that shit.
Kinda like the Game of Thrones books.
They miss something, or add something and I notice it.
No big deal except to me, and I don’t count for shit.
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