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5.0 out of 5 starsWouldn't all, or many of us, like to be an unstoppable and incorruptible bada**? *SPOILERS*
Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2024
The final fight in the episode where Reacher lies in wait for the mercenaries/killers in the abandoned home of the one accountant who is on the run seems somewhat incongruous and incredible to me as Reacher seems to have an unexpected and inordinate amount of trouble with one guy who pushes him into a pool and nearly kills him seemingly having the upper hand during their whole fight even though he is a minor character who has not shown any comparable abilities during the whole season prior to that point.
The very last episode of Season 1 not only feels rushed to me, but suffers from another glaring issue in my opinion that is even more of a concern in Season 2: Reacher pretty much never feels like he is in actual danger nor that he ever really faces significantly high stakes. The whole scene from when he and his friends storm the burning counterfeiting plant to him fairly quickly defeating the unhinged antagonist and then walking out from the burning building seemed too easy and almost comical in its pacing and execution.
In summary I still love the show, Reacher, and part of me wishes to not only realize my own dreams of being an unchained, free-roaming American bada** who helps people and stops corruption wherever he goes, but to also wish that someone even a quarter as epic and incorruptible as Reacher exists or could exist in the world. I'd like to hope that he exists somewhere. Maybe he exists in each of us, but also I can't shake the feeling that Amazon and other such high powered corporate and government entities know how to harness even, and maybe especially, something as beautiful and honorable as Jack Reacher, package him, commodify him, and sell him to us as an escapist salve so that we remain fat, docile, and continually lining their pockets. Something to think about...but I still generally like the show very much, and for me I watch pretty much nothing else other than Real Time and Stranger Things. I don't consume any Youtube, Television, Video News, Movies (In Theater or through streaming, etc.) or any other visual entertainment almost at all anymore. The only two movies that I can recall going to theaters to see in the last decade both happened in the last couple of years: Maverick and Oppenheimer. Anyway that is enough from me for the moment. Cheers.