After two Jack Reacher films starring Tom Cruise in 2012 and 2016, which received mixed reviews (decent story and action but controversial casting for a 6ft+ man-mountain of a character), it’s generally conceded that last year’s Reacher tv series finally got all the ingredients of Lee Child’s novels and character about right. A second season was quickly given the greenlight and it arrives on Amazon Prime on 15th December – with the first three episodes dropping simultaneously and then rolling out on Fridays thereafter for the eight-episode run until mid-January 2024.
Though the first run, based on Child’s debut novel Killing Floor, built up a strong ensemble (including Willa Fitzgerald – recently seen in The Fall of the House of Usher – and Malcolm Goodwin who also appeared in that show as the younger version of Carl Lumbly’s lawyer) this season will move on considerably and be based around the events in Child’s eleventh novel featuring the character – Bad Luck and Trouble. It sees Reacher, a man with a mission to find trouble and resolve it, trying to work out who is killing his old army buddies. Once again played by Alan Ritchson – who made quite the impact in the first run – Reacher forgoes his more drifter/nomad lifestyle to decode a message indicating that a murderer is specifically targeting his old unit, the 110th MP Special Investigations team. New supporting characters include Frances Neagley (Maria Sten); Karla Dixon (Serinda Swan) and David O’Donnell (Shaun Sipos), Ferdinand Kingsley as A.M., Robert Patrick as Shane Langston and Domenick Lombardozzi as tough NYPD detective Guy Russo.
The crew saddles up this December…
