Reacher Season 3 Trailer Gives Our Hero a Big Problem
The wandering avatar of justice will briefly settle once again in February. Yesterday, Amazon released a trailer for season 3 of Reacher, the streaming service’s hit show based on the novels of Lee Child. Alan Ritchson stars as Jack Reacher, a former military police officer who drifts through America as he seeks out wrongs to right, innocent people to protect, and bad guys who need the kind of violent retribution only he can deliver. The show jumps around Child’s series when selecting the source material for each season, as the books tend to be mostly stand-alone; season 3 will be an adaptation of Persuader, the seventh installment, which finds Jack Reacher helping the DEA rescue an undercover agent and tangling with a drug ring with ties to his past. Maria Sten will also be back as Frances Neagley, Reacher’s friend from his MP days; Anthony Michael Hall, Brian Tee, Sonya Cassidy, Johnny Berchtold, and Olivier Richters will join the cast this season. Reacher will return to Amazon Prime on February 20, 2025. You can see the trailer below:
Mostly, season 3 of Reacher looks like more Reacher, and that’s a good thing. I love this show, partly for how it proudly wears its action label on its sleeve and partly because it doesn’t stop there, giving each character a believable, consistent personality and a compelling arc. Season 2 introduced Reacher’s old team, and it was fun and illuminating seeing how they’d all grown and carved out lives for themselves while the man who shaped them and taught them discipline was wandering aimlessly, unsure of who, what, or where he wanted to be. That followed the first season, which saw the almost superhuman Reacher interacting with regular small-town folks who were completely unprepared for a wrecking ball to walk into their lives – until they realized that evil that had been metastasizing under their noses and Reacher was exactly what they needed to destroy it. I haven’t read Persuader, and the trailer is actually just a quick teaser, so I’m only speculating based on the book’s Amazon description, but my bet is that season 3 will explore Reacher interacting with a federal government agency as they work together to stop some bad guys. Reacher has clashed with feds before, but they were mostly there to be impediments Reacher had to steamroll through; this season, it appears they’re his main supporting cast outside of Neagley. That’s got to be a different dynamic, and I’m looking forward to the inevitable growing pains that come with it.
Another different dynamic is one of the villains, who’s played by Olivier Richters, a bodybuilder whose nickname is “the Dutch Mountain.” Richters is 7’2, almost a foot taller than Alan Ritchson, and the trailer makes it clear the show will play on that, with Richters’ character a nemesis who is more than a match for Reacher. This is a good shakeup of the show’s formula; typically, a big part of the fun is seeing Reacher overwhelm and dominate the evildoers who take pleasure in harming the innocent, watching thugs who thought they were untouchable get thrown around like rag dolls by a righteous avenger who believes in giving evil what it deserves. (Notice the final clip, where Reacher nonchalantly smacks a guy’s head onto a cafe table before finishing his coffee.) But this time, it’s Reacher who’s finally outmatched, and he’ll be at a physical disadvantage, perhaps forced to rely more on his wits than his brawn. It’s a smart move to shake things up, and while I was hoping they’d adapt the second novel in Lee Child’s series, Die Trying (the best of the three I read), I can see why they went with Persuader. I’m not about to wish the Christmas Season away, but I anticipate being very happy when February rolls around and Reacher stomps back onto my TV.
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