Reacher (2022) — My guilty pleasure

Reacher is a predictable, stupid, action-thriller, popcorn TV show. And it is easily one of my favorite shows at the moment. Whenever I talk about it, I tend to say it’s my “guilty pleasure”, although I can’t quite put my finger on why I should feel “guilty” about watching Reacher. So…let’s just talk about it a bit. I call this show predictable. That might of course be, because I’ve seen tons of similar movies / shows before. But even so, I think anybody will start to see behind the curtain pretty quickly. The arcs of seasons are mostly independent from each other, apart from a few recurring characters. As expected, shit gets worse, until in the final episode Reacher finds himself hopelessly outnumbered / outmatched and barely survives the confrontation. So far, so action genre. But individual episodes are predictable as well. Not the details of course, but the general beats that it hits. By default, Reacher will always do what’s “coolest” in the moment. Every single episode has…

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