Reacher
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Our Review
The most satisfying action show on television, full stop. Alan Ritchson is Jack Reacher the way Hugh Jackman is Wolverine: casting that makes every other version feel like a rough draft. Six foot five, 250 pounds of former military police drifter who owns nothing but a toothbrush, a folding toothbrush at that, and walks into towns that desperately need him.
Season 1 adapts Killing Floor and drops Reacher in Margrave, Georgia, where he is arrested for murder within minutes of stepping off a bus. From there it is eight episodes of the best kind of mystery: a conspiracy that unravels one layer at a time, a villain worth hating, and fights where the big man wins because he thinks faster, not just hits harder. The prison fight alone is worth the price of a subscription.
Season 2 shifts to New York and the murders of his old army unit, and if the grief hits harder than you expect from a show about a giant who breaks wrists, that is the point. This is a show that takes its punches seriously and its people seriously. Season 3, an undercover job inside a criminal empire, is the best season yet: Brian Tee as the antagonist is genuinely frightening, and the final stretch is some of the most tense television Prime has ever made.
Every season works as a standalone story, like the books. You can jump in anywhere, though you should not: start at the beginning and watch it all.
Our take: 9/10. The single most reliable watch on Prime Video. When a new season drops, everything else waits.
