Trend-defying action series Reacher has returned to Amazon Prime Video for an explosive second season, bringing with it the action, gunfights, intrigue, and unapologetic high-testosterone masculinity that viewers came to expect from Season 1. The towering titular star Alan Ritchson is joined by a mostly new ensemble cast including Maria Sten (Swamp Thing), Serinda Swan (Inhumans and Tron: Legacy), Shannon Kook (The 100) and Robert Patrick (Terminator).
With its imposing white-male lead, the Reacher series is something of an anomaly compared to other films and TV shows being produced by Amazon, Disney, Apple TV, and other mainstream entertainment providers, which habitually emasculate their white male characters while promoting “girl-bosses” who usually end up being unintentionally ridiculous or repulsive.
With a kick-off that is reminiscent of the first season, perennial drifter Reacher is called in to investigate the death of one of his former team members and discovers that the rest of his entire unit may be in danger. Reconnecting with his friends, Reacher is surprised and saddened to learn how much of their lives he has missed in the years he’s been bumming it around the United States—but when questioned whether he would have really shown up to participate in significant milestones, he admits, “No,” he values his anonymity too much.
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Throughout the series, Reacher demonstrates a kind of “Captain Kirk” morality that drives him to passionately redress injustice and punish the wicked, but does not prevent him from getting sexually involved with a woman as long as the entanglement presents no “professional” difficulties. This sexual “liberation”, combined with the portrayal of mature women in unmarried professional capacities who do not regret their lack of family, presents the only sour notes in this otherwise excellent action series.
While viewers will not have Cultural Marxist propaganda subliminally beamed into their brains by this series, Reacher, unfortunately, normalizes premarital sex and women delaying marriage to work outside the home.
Pop-culture expert Gary “Nerdrotic” Beuchler has expressed amazement that Amazon—the company that produces ridiculous girl-power atrocities like The Wheel of Time and The Rings of Power—somehow also manages to create the occasional anomaly like Reacher and The Terminal List, another high-T series that refuses to apologize for its white-male protagonist.
The second season of Reacher is based on the novel Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child, the thirteenth book in the Reacher series. The first three episodes were released together on Dec. 15, with the remainder of the series scheduled to be released every week.
Reacher was previously adapted for the big screen by Tom Cruise. While Cruise’s version received generally good reviews, at 5’ 7” the actor was criticized for not being as physically imposing as the character is described in the novels. At 6’ 3”, the hulking Alan Ritchson is the very embodiment of the character.
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