New Jack Reacher on Prime

The trouble with many, most, or these series is that for a few seasons they have great original stuff, After 5 years or so they dont have anymore original stuff so they start making up wild stuff just to keep it running. i liked NCIS but after some guy came back from the dead a couple times I had to let it go. Same with 'Once Upon a time". Really cool for a few years then got out of hand stupid and repetitious. Breaking Bad seemed to know when to quit.
 
I have watched the first episode so far. Seemed kinda ADHD with how quick it jumped from scene to scene. I also just read the book this season is based on a couple months ago, so that makes it hard to watch when details are missed or new things added
 
I really have a hard time with poor adptions of books I have enjoyed. The Reacher series of books had at least one factor that really rang true: Reacher's thoughts about hitch-hiking. Traveling by hitching was still a viable means of travel, back after I got out of the Army. I traveled across country several times before I went back to College. Wouldn't do it now.
Met a lot of interesting people, never had trouble with LEO, truckers were friendly, Women in small towns were incredibly generous, and I never needed much cash at all. His details of how he travels, how he gets a room, how he obtains clean clothing, were all pretty much spot-on, for a guy who isn't a POS walking trash bin. Had a lot of adventures, but nothing like Jack.
I'm only on episode 3, but have already noticed several missing parts, and the security fence, is a huge one, unless he's going to break in somewhere else.
I'm not impressed with the Coroner.
I had hopes for this series simply due to the actor being a big guy. Cruise was a piss-poor example of Reacher. They try to keep him logical, haven't seen evidence of his math skills or internal clock. He should work on his glowering. Reacher is intimidating, and Dark. This guy always has a half-smile on his face. Work on it.
Lee Child is producing, but isn't writing the show, and like most of these guys (except Elmore Leonard {Justified), allows adaptions depart from the book in far too many ways.
 
Banshee for the win

Watched the 8 episodes, you can see same folks that make all the superhero flicks were at work here , lots of BS , a cop flick with hulk smash action including supernatural strength and lack of it when it suits and the plot is kinda BS.
 
I still have 3 episodes to go.
I like it so far. The differences from “Killing Floor” are obvious, but I understand why.

I’m a huge Reacher fan. I consider this 50 times better than that crappy version of the Mitch Rapp books from a few years ago.
 
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Without spoiling things, you’ll see Hollywood’s influence on the series as the show progresses.

Yup, although it's not so obvious as to be abrasive (except a couple times). They actually have a few "opposite of the message" moments, too. That said, the show's only high point is Willa Fitzgerald (plays Roscoe) who is painfully stunning (to my eye) and an alright actor.

The story - whether it's made up or from one of the books or whatever - is the standard "small southern town" story I've seen 1,000 times.

Frankly, I disliked it. Alan Ritchson is a good fit for Jack Reacher but man his dialogue and acting was closer to The Terminator.

And they seemed to - at least 3x a show - mention Jack's size. I realize that's an important part overlooked in the Tom Cruise movie, but... you don't have to remind the viewer 3x a show that the guy is big. I just ended the show wondering how he stayed so buff... he never worked out.
 
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2 episodes in, only because Ive watched all the good stuff on NF..

Id give it a C+/B-

Reacher is big and basically clumsy, just a side of beef that takes it shirt off.

Roscoe is pretty good and the black guy is a good actor. Beyond that,....not much going for it though I am looking forward to seeing roscoe in the buff.
 
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Best series like this on PRIME imo is Jack Ryan!
Most woke garbage show ever... and THAT'S your favorite?
And they canceled Jack Ryan....
Thank God

Just finished it, thought it was a decent adaptation of the book. Only sign of wokeness was the obviously lgbtqrstuvwxyz coroner thing but they didn't harp on it

Only technical fuckup I really spotted was the whole 95gr subsonic thing 🙈

The violence level was quite delicious and I appreciate how they kept his fighting 'method' true to the books. A brawler, not a karate ninja master.

Lot of elbows, head smashing, head butts, saw an eye gouge, vicious stabbings

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SRS question-does anyone other than me watch stuff just to be entertained/kill some time? Don't get me wrong, I can't stand the blantant wokeness in some films, but the closest this one came was the coroner thing. Nobody was preachy about race, although it was an obvious undertone, no interracial BS like every commercial on TV, just a halfway decent show. Plus, it had the trifecta in at least 2 episodes. Gun play, violence and boobs, with a decent story to boot. Win-win-win. Now crap like the TV series The Equalizer, where I'm supposed to believe Queen Latifa is some kind of badass-uh no thanks.
I thought it was much better than the previews.
 
Epic fucktard garbage.


Jack Reacher was not a 28y/o queer in any of the books, he was a retired Army officer. Means he was at least 43 years old, not 32. Even a 28y/o gay man would have knocked a dent in that lady cop within five minutes. She was blonde, cute, nice tits and a cute ass and he was in the middle of a dry spell, homeless and smelly and she still went for it.....................he hot boxed her like a geek loser the first few times.

They keep saying this guy is 6'5" but he is a few inches taller than every woman on screen with him, so they are are gorilla women or he is a 6ft tall guy.

95 gr subsonic "small caliber" super bullets, seriously? This bit of ignorance comes from some cunt reading 9mm Kurz on the side of a .380 and concluding it is a 9mm, equating it to 9mm Parabellum. I dated a opiniated woman who owned a Walther marked 9mm Kurz and the bitch kept trying to buy any 9mm ammo for it and none of them worked. She was to thick headed to listen, like the writers of this shit show.

Rug licker black chick who is strong, empowered and does not touch men.............................fuck her.

Evil enemy who washed dollar bills and prints hundreds that are 30 years out of fucking date and expects people to accept them, seriously fucktard.

Evil enemy who literally know every fucking step you make hours ahead of you and kill everyone, seriously fucktard.


No one in the state, county or federal government notices a missing Secret Service executive, a dead police chief who was force fed his own nuts, a dead trucker or another god damned dead Secret Service agent or more dead cops and locals or random dead "South American assassins" shot with a fucking 50 caliber pistol.............................................................are you shitting me? When a cop dies in Shitsville the state troopers or a neighboring county investigate, it is the law. Are we to assume the entire town of Democrats fucking put on their masks and hid?

A homeless weightlifting idiot driving around town in a fucking Bentley belonging to a missing person...........................no one cares.

The show follows a few leftist themes;

1. All cops are assumed crooked and aligned with massive criminal elements that exist everywhere.

2. Elected Democrats are always aligned with crooked cops and criminals and they prey upon the fears of gutless civilians.

3. All civilians are utterly incapable of thought or reasoning and blindly obey their elected leader. As with covid, they are ordered to go home, stay inside for a few weeks, "until this is over" and not one single person in Shitsville contacts anyone outside of Shitsville to make them aware of the crisis.

4. Every problem in Shitsville can be solved by sending four local retards to beat up a new arrival in town.

5. Every town has a few GED retards leading South American dead squads and no one seems to notice or care.

6. No one owns a normal fucking gun, stored properly. Two mags of ammo is all you need........................................................always.

7. Every one in the show is one kiss from a gay love scene.

8. Any southern white person is racist as hell...............................................especially cops...................cops can go 1936 klansman on your ass in a heart beat.
 
Epic fucktard garbage.


Jack Reacher was not a 28y/o queer in any of the books, he was a retired Army officer. Means he was at least 43 years old, not 32. Even a 28y/o gay man would have knocked a dent in that lady cop within five minutes. She was blonde, cute, nice tits and a cute ass and he was in the middle of a dry spell, homeless and smelly and she still went for it.....................he hot boxed her like a geek loser the first few times.

They keep saying this guy is 6'5" but he is a few inches taller than every woman on screen with him, so they are are gorilla women or he is a 6ft tall guy.

95 gr subsonic "small caliber" super bullets, seriously? This bit of ignorance comes from some cunt reading 9mm Kurz on the side of a .380 and concluding it is a 9mm, equating it to 9mm Parabellum. I dated a opiniated woman who owned a Walther marked 9mm Kurz and the bitch kept trying to buy any 9mm ammo for it and none of them worked. She was to thick headed to listen, like the writers of this shit show.

Rug licker black chick who is strong, empowered and does not touch men.............................fuck her.

Evil enemy who washed dollar bills and prints hundreds that are 30 years out of fucking date and expects people to accept them, seriously fucktard.

Evil enemy who literally know every fucking step you make hours ahead of you and kill everyone, seriously fucktard.


No one in the state, county or federal government notices a missing Secret Service executive, a dead police chief who was force fed his own nuts, a dead trucker or another god damned dead Secret Service agent or more dead cops and locals or random dead "South American assassins" shot with a fucking 50 caliber pistol.............................................................are you shitting me? When a cop dies in Shitsville the state troopers or a neighboring county investigate, it is the law. Are we to assume the entire town of Democrats fucking put on their masks and hid?

A homeless weightlifting idiot driving around town in a fucking Bentley belonging to a missing person...........................no one cares.

The show follows a few leftist themes;

1. All cops are assumed crooked and aligned with massive criminal elements that exist everywhere.

2. Elected Democrats are always aligned with crooked cops and criminals and they prey upon the fears of gutless civilians.

3. All civilians are utterly incapable of thought or reasoning and blindly obey their elected leader. As with covid, they are ordered to go home, stay inside for a few weeks, "until this is over" and not one single person in Shitsville contacts anyone outside of Shitsville to make them aware of the crisis.

4. Every problem in Shitsville can be solved by sending four local retards to beat up a new arrival in town.

5. Every town has a few GED retards leading South American dead squads and no one seems to notice or care.

6. No one owns a normal fucking gun, stored properly. Two mags of ammo is all you need........................................................always.

7. Every one in the show is one kiss from a gay love scene.

8. Any southern white person is racist as hell...............................................especially cops...................cops can go 1936 klansman on your ass in a heart beat.
Tell us how ya really feel about this show.
 
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Breaking Bad seemed to know when to quit.
AMC seems to know when to keep a show going and when not to. Turn, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, and Hell on Wheels all managed to avoid going totally overboard and end when appropriate.

Not so much with The Walking Dead, though, but everyone fucks up at least once.
 
It was alright. Its something new. The ending was very contrived and a little letdown, but overall the show was at least interesting.
Have not read books. Plan to remedy that soon though. So the series isn't all a waste.

Good:
(1) Its not Tom Cruise
(2) Roscoe--easy on the eyes, but she got sidelined last few episodes and did seem to be a good match to Reacher
(3) Liked the 'crunchy' fight scenes
(4) Chief Detective was annoying as hell, but as a good character
(5) Overall mystery/thriller/twists

Bad
(1) Ending. Hollywood Plug and Pay. Anti-climatic
(2) 95gr Subsonic 9mm. Plus lets go into a major fight with a handgun. A Deagle
(3) Sometimes it got a little corny. The repeat of the "Dune" joke -- You Looked Jacked! Really? No. Some of those T-shirts
(4) Definitely some plot holes.

Verdict: Better than the onslaught of network TV fare, but mostly a nice change of pace.
 
Most woke garbage show ever... and THAT'S your favorite?

Thank God

Just finished it, thought it was a decent adaptation of the book. Only sign of wokeness was the obviously lgbtqrstuvwxyz coroner thing but they didn't harp on it

Only technical fuckup I really spotted was the whole 95gr subsonic thing 🙈

The violence level was quite delicious and I appreciate how they kept his fighting 'method' true to the books. A brawler, not a karate ninja master.

Lot of elbows, head smashing, head butts, saw an eye gouge, vicious stabbings

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I said, best series on PRIME. Never said it wasn’t fave. There is a difference.