Re: ‘Reacher.’ Just read the books by Lee Child. Start with ‘The Killing Floor’ and you will be hooked!
The movie version(s?) with Tom Cruise are ridiculous. I haven’t seen the TV series, so correct me if I’m wrong on that point.
I can’t remember the last time I watched anything ‘new’ on TV. I’ll read or watch a cooking show or a travel show before anything else and the both of us love a good Murder Mystery. ;)
I thought the first 10 or 12 Reacher books were good, but then they started to fade. The last one or two seem like Lee and Andrew Child are pretty much phoning it in now.
I watched “Mayor of Kingstown” for two seasons.
Part of it are excellent—but they can’t help having scenes where a leftist teacher propagandizes their students—totally ruined several episodes.
I found myself hoping her mugger would kill her since she was obviously incapable of joining the rational human race.
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At the end of season 2 they really blew it—had a five minute lecture of leftist propaganda “explaining” what the show was about...
That is brutally bad art when you have to do that.
That is what I mean by “sledgehammer” propaganda.
If they cut out the stupid scenes I mentioned the show would be solid.
The 2 seasons of Reacher on Amazon Prime are pretty good. Much more faithful to the books than the movies. A little woke but they don’t beat you over the head with it. Well worth checking out.
I read “Make Me” and can’t read anymore. The Dark Web stuff is something I had to work on in my last few years of government service and can’t handle it. Child’s depiction of some of the things occurring was way too spot on.
I have read all the Reacher books up to #23 I think (I have had a real hard time reading since I had Covid due to a severely diminished attention span. Used to read 3 or 4 books a month and haven’t been able to finish one in a few years but that’s another story). The series “Reacher” on Prime is excellent and very true to the books. Definitely worth a try if you like the books and have Prime. The movies were crap. A 5 foot 6 guy playing Jack Reacher was a giant joke.