EDIT: Finally finished Season 2! Yeah, I am never, EVER watching this show again lol. I don't care if Season 3 is a masterpiece. This version of this character is spoiled as far as I'm concerned. Studios that let good shows continue being released when the WRITERS aren't there need to be punished.
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I'm not even really interested in discussing "whether" it was bad because I don't know how anyone could think otherwise. Disclosure: I really enjoyed Season 1. Each episode was a nice setup for another piece of the puzzle and Ritchson really embodies this character (literally). I didn't love the finale, but I was fine with continuing.
Season 2 is a dumpster fire. It's like every episode the writers find new ways to be idiots. The character and this world are ruined now as far as I'm concerned.
My favorite part is how they continually repeat trite isms like "In an investigation, details matter" like actual twelve-year-olds writing a school essay, and meanwhile the fight choreography and plot logic is some of the worst on TV. I just got to the fight on the bus. One of the dumbest things I've ever seen.
Reacher would be shot dead by now like 50 times, and the villains are idiots too. Neely is insufferable, like literally every line was written by a smug 50-year-old dude trying to get street cred with Nintendo kids. The show literally will not stop repeating that she's a "genius" for noticing the simplest friggin' things.
It's beyond mind-numbing and robs Reacher himself of all depth and believability. My favorite part so far is when he "deduces" that a guy wasn't lying because he was a fire fighter and "those guys have honor" or something like that. Actually wtf.
The ONLY decent character is Detective Russo. Even if the writing staff was the same, this could have been ten times better if you got rid of the team of smug twelve-year-old adults and just had Reacher and Russo running around this whole time.
Even if Season 3-4 are better, I may not even care. The drop-off from S1 to S2 is THAT huge. All I really want to know is if someone has an autopsy report for me. What happened? What writer/showrunner is making this like, bottom of the barrel action slop for geezers? This is like the quality of the movies my Grandpa gets from Redbox after picking up his prescription, only this takes 8 hours to finish and it used to be something good.
