“Reacher” is an action crime streaming television series based on the book series by Lee Child.
Let’s find out some trivia and facts about the series.
- Reacher is an American action crime streaming television series
- The series is developed by Nick Santora for Amazon Prime Video
- Based on the Jack Reacher book series by Lee Child
- It stars Alan Ritchson as the title character
- Jack Reacher is self-proclaimed hobo and former military policeman with formidable abilities
- Reacher always encounters and is forced to battle dangerous criminals throughout his travels
- The first season was based on Killing Floor, Child’s 1997 debut novel
- It was released on February 4, 2022
- A second season has been ordered
- It was based on Bad Luck and Trouble
- The second season will premiere on December 15th
- Jack Reacher is a former U.S. Army military policeman
- While visiting the (fictional) rural town of Margrave, Georgia, he is arrested for murder
- After he is freed, he teams up with Oscar Finlay and Roscoe Conklin to investigate a wide conspiracy with corrupt police officers, politicians, and businessmen
- On July 15, 2019, a TV series adaptation of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher series was announced by Amazon
- Nick Santora, who created Scorpion, was set to write, showrun, and produce the series through Paramount Television and Skydance Media
- On January 14, 2020, the TV series was greenlit, with Don Granger, Scott Sullivan, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Marcy Ross, and Christopher McQuarrie as executive producers with Child
- The first season was announced as an adaptation of Child’s novel Killing Floor
- In July 2021, it was announced M. J. Bassett had joined the series as a director
- Adapting the books to screen the writers decided they would need to make Reacher verbalize his thoughts more often
- But that they would keep his dialog short and direct and have him only speak longer to people he respects
- They also decided to introduce Neagley to the series earlier than in the books
- A temporary townscape was built in North Pickering, Ontario to support filming of the show
- The entire fictional city of Margrave was built from the ground up in a leased farm field in Ontario
- Other areas of filming include Toronto, Port Perry and Pickering
- Principal shooting of season 1 took place between April 15 and July 30, 2021, in Toronto
- During filming, Ritchson broke a bone in his shoulder which required surgery and tore an abdominal muscle during a fight scene
- Reacher was the most streamed television series for the week of February 7-13, 2022, according to the Nielsen streaming rankings
- This marks he first Amazon production to achieve the feat
- The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 92% approval rating
- With an average rating of 7.30/10
- Based on 73 critic reviews
- The website’s critics consensus reads, “Reacher captures the trademark bulk of its titular hero while trading away some of his definition, but fans of the novels will find plenty to love about this faithful adaptation”
- Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 68 out of 100
- Based on 18 critics, indicating “generally favorable reviews”
