The only thing fans apparently wanted was to go in Reacher season 1 on Amazon- an eight-episode adaptation of the first novel in the series by Lee Child, Killing Floor– was a long Reacher. Specifically, a 6’5 “250-pound brick exterior of a man, a faithful rendition of the novel’s Jack Reacher, which is described many, many times in the novel as being, just, great.
Hollywood has already had a crack at the cast with a few Reacher films—Jack Reacher in 2012, based on Child’s novel A chanceand 2016s Jack Reacher: Never go back, based on the Child novel of the same name. In those films, the studios broadcast a 5’7 ”Tom Cruise to play Reacher.
While few might question Cruise’s commitment to action film, everyone could see that the studio missed the physicality mark. Reacher series creator Nick Santora has since put all casting complaints to bed when his team literally included Titan Alan Ritchson — who is actually 6’2 ”and younger than his literary counterpart, but who cares?
Ritchson’s physical presence is perhaps the most compelling part of season 1, where we as readers still overcome the strange feeling of seeing a literary character so faithfully brought to life. (With God, a stream service eventually did.) And while Reacher strays from his source material to fill his eight episodes, the tone and pace of the story do the novel more than cinematic justice; we’re starting to think that the series might have been TV shows all along.
Of course, there are many more stories to adopt. Season 1 has completed the full storyline of Killing Floorbut it represents only one of more than two dozen books in the series. Give us another 12 seasons of Reacher, Amazon.
Here’s what we know about season 2.
Shall Reacher get a season 2?
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Amazon has not yet announced a renewal order for the series. The decision will likely depend on viewer numbers over the next few weeks. Early reviews, however, proved to be strong and many other adult-ass-kicking content did well for Amazon, including The boys, Jack Ryanen Invincible– renew everything for future seasons.
It seems that streaming services are also going through, still the adjustment route, in the hope of achieving great success with an abundance of source material to help it for several seasons. (Wheel of Time seems to be Amazon’s recent venture.) There’s enough reason to think that Amazon has heard a large enough audience for adult action.
And so, we are optimistic.
The next book in the series after Killing Floor is 1998’s Die try.
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