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Drwilson's avatar

I enjoyed the first 2 seasons of Reacher. Looked forward to starting season 3 last night. I’m afraid, however, that Reacher is jumping the shark. So preposterous, such bad dialogue, such a completely unlikable cast of characters. I’ll give season 3 a couple more episodes but my hand is definitely on the plug

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Liam Mathews's avatar

It's very preposterous, to be sure. But I've seen the whole season, and I can say that you'll want to stick around until the end — or at least skip the middle episodes and come back at the end.

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Matthew Spence's avatar

I need to start watching Reacher, great deep dive on the creator.

Fun to see the forgotten show Vegas mentioned, I remember that one being advertised a bunch as the next big prestige show but it faded away quickly similar to Frank Darabont’s failed post Walking Dead firing series Mob City.

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Liam Mathews's avatar

lol Mob City, yes. That one I did watch. I rewatched the pilot recently, I think on Dailymotion or something. Pretty decent. Good use of Bernthal.

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Dr Peter Y Chan's avatar

Initially, I thought it was just MY dad into this stuff. He's 70, and all he wants to talk about is Bosch and Reacher and Yellowstone. He reads a bunch of James Clavell and James Patterson.

And then I realized that most of my male friends who are all in their 40s are into this stuff too. My boss, who doesn't read or talk or post or tweet about reading, has read every Reacher book. Twice. It's completely an untapped market that must be huge, but that no one is talking about.

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Liam Mathews's avatar

Your dad sounds cool. Bring him here and we'll all talk about it all the time.

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