Reacher Season 3 Review: Back on Track with Action and Humor

Review: Reacher Season 3 Back on Track
Reacher returns for a new season after the failure of the previous season.
The third season of Reacher comes to give us a dose of action filled with humor.

Reacher returns in a new season, the third one, and after the failure of season two, certainly after the successful first season, the new season tries to return to its roots.
All About Fun For those unfamiliar with the series, Reacher is a kind of “Banshee” that takes itself a bit more seriously and is based on the successful book series, but overall the formula is similar: a capable hero who meets friends from the present and past in each season, and together they defeat the villain of the moment.

There are always casualties along the way, and Reacher tries to give them depth. Oh, and in each season he has a romance with a different character and changes his Banshee like town unlike that other series.
The fun of Reacher is that there is always humor, the action is high quality and enjoyable, and like Anthony Starr, Reacher can fill all the scenes in the series and it still works.
Season three is much more like the first season, so if you want to turn off your brain a bit and watch the bad guys lose with nonstop action, starting tomorrow you can begin watching the new season on Amazon Prime.

As in every season, Reacher continues his wanderings from town to town aiming to settle scores without an official role in the law.
This season he teams up with drug enforcement agents to infiltrate a crime organization specializing in smuggling that hid an undercover agent of that same agency.
Reacher keeps her “language” and the characters say in each scene exactly what they think and what their thought is based on.

In the second, darker season, the writers took this feature to the extreme and every character (and there were many) was a copy of Reacher but far less convincing, making it hard to watch.
This also happens in this season but less frequently and with fewer characters, so it is possible to give them depth and advance the plot smoothly.
The series also detached from the unreasonable flashbacks of season two, and when flashbacks do exist, they are interesting and advance the plot, not annoying.
Hollywood Is HereYou cannot say the production of Reacher is cheap like that Banshee, the action in many scenes is realistic, the rivals and villains are challenging, and Reacher eliminates them in various ways reminiscent of Call of Duty style executions combined with Mortal Kombat finishes.

As we said, it is a great fun for action and shooting fans.
I could not get used to something in the eight episodes, the sharp transitions between dark/serious scenes and light scenes.
The transitions are so abrupt that for us as Americans it is a reality trigger.
One moment the characters are casually scanning a truck for drugs as if it is not serious, and the next a character we tried to connect with is executed brutally.

This happens several times and the extremity between scenes harms the flow and leaves an unclear impression.
Since the series is self-aware but also tries to show depth and does not spare harsh visuals, the idea is good but executed not tightly enough.
Those harsh visuals, like the other action scenes, are detailed, which adds to the difficulty of passing them as just another scene where a minor character departs.
Despite the effort to maintain high production values, the series sometimes misses small details: a car stuck in mud continues driving that same night as if it just left the agency, Reacher gets injured and loses half an eyebrow, and the next morning all hair has returned, and other cases like this.

If corrected, they would have added another point to the series.
The final episode, like the previous season, is one continuous action sequence, exaggerated but not as exaggerated as Reacher holding a stretcher swinging from a helicopter with a tied agent while an opponent strikes him.
Viewers can expect an enjoyable episode, as we said, turn off your brain and go with the flow of the good guys defeating the bad.
Bottom LineReacher is not a masterpiece series and does not try to be one.

It repeats old formulas and clichés, and that is not a bad thing. It is classic television entertainment, not especially sophisticated, filling the screen between a sea of series that force the viewer to think, which is not necessarily suitable, certainly not every night, and it does it well.
If you forgive its mistakes, you get a character fun to spend time with and a story of justice of the old kind. More of it, please.
The third season of Reacher will be available on Prime Video on February 20.