Reacher - Season 1

A very good adaptation of the first series of Lee Child’s books. Vagabond, drifter, ex-military special investigator Jack Reacher always gets caught up in something and leaves no stone unturned until he unravels it. Old school fun where legs and noses are broken and punches are the order of the day. Allan Ritchson doesn't just look like Reacher, he is Reacher, it's hard to imagine Tom Cruise back in the role now. It's good that we're starting from book one, “Killing Floor” is a nice introductory story with a good personal line, and the flashbacks also work. If it weren't for the exaggerated scenes like the final inferno in the paper mill, which looks very B-movie, I'd go for the full score, because it couldn't have been done better. Carry on. (01.02.2023)

Right between 3 and 4 stars. Comparisons with the films: Alan Ritchson's Reacher are undoubtedly better adaptations of the book, with theirmusculature, their buzz, and their dry catchphrases; and Tom Cruise is a better actor. The Reacher series honours the source material better and more accurately, but it loses its pace quite dramatically in the middle, the storytelling around the criminal conspiracy is not fully rendered and some of the actions of the main and supporting characters are very questionable in places. Cruise, as usual, threw himself more fully into the action and although the show's creators, not to mention the lead actor, are not afraid of it, they don't have Cruise for stunts. The bottom line is that while the films can be embraced by a broader spectrum of viewers and especially the first one works well as a "universal" crime drama, the series will be more for die-hard fans and lovers of 1980s nostalgia and the smell of good old-fashioned action heroes. (28.03.2022)