Forget ‘Reacher,’ This Action Remake Is So Good, You Won’t Stop Watching
I stayed up until 4 a.m. finishing Reacher Season 3, which is something I don’t regret but also can’t fully explain. The show is frictionless in a way very few action thrillers are. Every episode moves quickly, nothing overstays its welcome, and Alan Ritchson plays Jack Reacher with an unhurried authority that makes watching him work through a problem satisfying even when the problem is just a room full of people who are about to have a very bad night. I love it. I have recommended it to everyone I know. And yet, somewhere around the middle ofReacher Season 2, I noticed I didn’t particularly care about anyone in it. Reacher will be fine. He’s always fine. The show knows this, I know this, and so do you, and that is both its greatest strength and its weakness.
