Hmm, I loved the first season, but so far (after only watching the first episode):
1) there's ~900% more Maria Sten~/Neagley~, who's dull and unconvincing in this role, and being tasked with delivering the majority of the annoyingly received retellings of the plot points via strings of exposition that would just be redundant and even stranger (than it is here) in real life, and
2) they haven’t introduced any interesting characters (like the white lady cop and the black male cop of the first season, or even some of the recurring dirty/corrupt folks of that season) to take the load off of Reacher who isn't supposed to say much via words, and
3) the poorly incorporated and delivered info-dumps I mentioned above leading to just a bunch annoyingly bad acting taking up too much a percentage of the watching time and very little moments of seeming realness to attach to (heck, the first of surely not much more actual highlights of character development, acting, or mere coolness was a mere ~90 second scene of Reacher interacting with two ephemeral characters during a merely incidental, passing carjacking).
…So, I'm hoping some of the positive commenters have similar taste to me and thus that their positive comments on the season means it gets better in the following two released episodes.
Review by Chloroform CowboyBlockedParent2023-12-17T06:33:01Z
Hmm, I loved the first season, but so far (after only watching the first episode):
1) there's ~900% more Maria Sten~/Neagley~, who's dull and unconvincing in this role, and being tasked with delivering the majority of the annoyingly received retellings of the plot points via strings of exposition that would just be redundant and even stranger (than it is here) in real life, and
2) they haven’t introduced any interesting characters (like the white lady cop and the black male cop of the first season, or even some of the recurring dirty/corrupt folks of that season) to take the load off of Reacher who isn't supposed to say much via words, and
3) the poorly incorporated and delivered info-dumps I mentioned above leading to just a bunch annoyingly bad acting taking up too much a percentage of the watching time and very little moments of seeming realness to attach to (heck, the first of surely not much more actual highlights of character development, acting, or mere coolness was a mere ~90 second scene of Reacher interacting with two ephemeral characters during a merely incidental, passing carjacking).
…So, I'm hoping some of the positive commenters have similar taste to me and thus that their positive comments on the season means it gets better in the following two released episodes.