I enjoyed it for what it was.
Lee Child books aren’t freakin’ Moby Dick, they’re mindless action novels.
The show adaptation is a good mindless action series. Simple as that, I enjoy it the same way I would The A Team. Don’t think too hard about it, it’s not that kind of show.
We finished the series last night. My wife says she loves it… I think she loved shirtless Reacher more than anything. She also liked the total lack of remorse in doing away with the bad guys. Mindless entertainment at the end of the day.
Thanks for the review, and I’m not taking a shot, but it let’s me know it’s not for me. I can “sorta” do A Team because of the built in nostalgia, but any modern show that bad…just ain’t for me. Add in guns, cops or military and I get super critical, makes it harder to turn off the brain.
One of my best friends can watch blow it up / shoot em ups and I really can’t watch any of the movies he watches. It’s like trying to watch NASCAR, either it’s you or it ain’t you.
Sometimes I just consciously turn my brain off to watch stuff like that show. Let the brain relax a bit because what’s going on requires no cognitive effort on my part.
That is how one “enjoys” a series like Reacher.
Ironically I do that with documentaries. I hear and learn, but it relaxes my brain probably more than anything. I can listen to things about the pyramids, roman empire and the like all day long. Everyone is wired different. Back in the days when the History channel was actually about history, I used to leave it on all day long.
Same here, I love documentaries for that reason. I can actively watch or do the same thing you do.
So no one’s mentioned, but anyone else catch Lee Child’s cameo at the end of the last episode in the diner?
So no one’s mentioned, but anyone else catch Lee Child’s cameo at the end of the last episode in the diner?
I like it - it is mindless entertainment. And he is either on the spectrum, or a semi-sociopath as to how he views things (which makes it interesting).
I know it’s make believe, but dude is scary. Someone that big and fast, with his brutally efficient fighting technique…wow.
That female cop wouldn’t be walking the next day…
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