Good discussion..for my money, I like Eric Bana or Karl Urban
Watched 5 episodes and could not force myself to go further. Stupid plot and absurd scenes.
home sick with the (not the panda) flu the past couple days, binged watched this. Guess the fact that I did binge watch it all says I liked it?
I'd say that not necessarily. Depends on how you feel about what you watched.
We watched the series at a pretty quick pace too, but after watching it all I feel disappointed. The series started as something dumb but kind of fun, but the stupidity just kept on ratcheting up to what by the time the series reached its final episode were ridiculous levels.
Fair point Le Francais. I’ve read most of the books and Lee Child has an issue naming stuff correctly. Maybe it is because he is a Brit, but the way some of his characters in law enforcement discuss law enforcement is a little off.
Anyways, when The Killing Floor came out, Homeland Security did not exist - but as I recall, Reacher described his brother Joe’s employer as the “Treasury Department,” which was true but intentionally vague so as to not tip off the reader immediately that we are dealing with counterfeiting, which is a Secret Service remit. How one could vaguely know one’s brother was a high ranking official in the Treasury Department and not know said brother was a Secret Service agent is silly. The inability to correctly describe law enforcement naming conventions and practices is a long running Lee Child thing, and it made me feel at home to know the screenwriters for the series suffer from the same disease.
A lot of Reacher is silly. I think about it as a modern day western set in a parallel universe. Instead of traveling around on a horse, the hero takes a Greyhound.