The Reel Rejects - REACHER 3x04 Breakdown and Review!!!!

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Starting point is 00:01:36 It's time for Reacher. Let's do this thing. Rolicking and credits on. Would you think that was? An actor who I first saw in a goosebumps, the legend of fever swamp, but has since, you know, just been like a working actor who shows up. There's a lot of henches. you know, guys of that nature.

Starting point is 00:02:02 I think the last thing I saw him in was Violent Knight. It was one of the, you know, goons. But anyway, that's not as important as you guys leaving a five star rating, or however many stars you're compelled to leave

Starting point is 00:02:17 on this, if you're listening to it on a hapel or spoutifay. Hey, gang. Thanks for tuning in. Rechecknationshop.com. G. How did you? feel about this week's episode this week it's it this is this week's and we get to wait till

Starting point is 00:02:34 next week it's crazy what do you think how do you feel why did you say it that way did it reach your spirit i think it's i think it was a really good episode i i it's not exactly like whatever it doesn't matter what you need to compare it to the rank them the the the last season had a lot of flashbacks and i weirdly never felt like we really got to live in the there maybe there's a moment one or two that i just don't really recall but i like that most of this episode was dedicated to the flashback because this is really driving home the buildup to Quinn that we've been getting reacher's motivation for why he's hell bent on getting his revenge completed and it really does feel like it adds a rich piece of history to reacher's background

Starting point is 00:03:28 and pre-110 as well. The whole flashback was genuinely engaging and the Dominique character was a very engaging character. Her performance was strong. You could see how she could have been an excellent partner to reach her. In some ways, oh my God, Blankana, who's the one who's always around now, Neely?

Starting point is 00:03:49 In some ways, she's not exactly like Neely. If I think she's kind of like a more mini-reacher in some ways, in some of her own, like, intelligence capacity and negotiation skills capacity maybe not physical strength but everything else you you could see why he cared about her so much and he identified with her as well and it was beyond like beyond he was someone who like he gravitated towards and was able to feel proud of yeah and really wanted her to succeed like the way they they sold that was well done because you obviously know she's going to die at some point but you also kind of don't want it to happen and

Starting point is 00:04:26 what it does it still really hurts and stings so you know the flashbacks effective on top of that too they also give us Quinn our first time we get to hear him speak and get his interactions and that's really important for a guy you've built up for so long because

Starting point is 00:04:42 even though he's like way more powerful now um that introduction to his first few speaking lines does go to show like the tactical ugliness lack of empathy emotional care this guy is like he's truly villainous in a way that

Starting point is 00:05:01 didn't feel mustache twirling despite the fact that he has a mustache he was it was a really rich emotionally engrossing episode for for that I was a surprise because yeah I mean they cut to the flashbacks a lot in season two and I remember being pretty let down by not really feeling like I got much out of it even though there was a lot of it and this one was like I'd forget that it's a flashback oh yeah yeah this is this is not the immediate unfolding story and I like how it also adds to the nuance of the present like how they talk about

Starting point is 00:05:39 he still keeps up with his kidnapping he does what you know it works for him he knows what he knows what to do so yeah no I thought it was I thought it was really good that was a really really good episode yeah it's not the most plot heavy moving moving it forward but in order for the plot moving forward stuff to be effective we really need to feel the why behind everything

Starting point is 00:06:00 like last season was so much about 110 and one of their own died and was he dirty or not was he dirty or not and the bottom line is you have to really care about one 10 getting their revenge for what they did at one of their own and I never really did

Starting point is 00:06:17 yeah I like these guys and I like them largely because they're so important to reach her but there's some missing element of like real depth to bond you to them because like this episode like i'm also too i'll add i'm a little because we had our criticisms of two and i think some of the but i've actually been listening all at rich and all rich and has this criticisms of season two quite a bit too oh i didn't realize he did oh and and i and i think i'm like oh no wonder like there are times we're comparing it to two and saying like well here's where it's proven upon it and

Starting point is 00:06:52 yeah it's like so he want okay it's like I'm comparing it because it's similar right one 10 guy died you want revenge okay does we see flashbacks traditionally you're supposed to give a shit

Starting point is 00:07:05 about who died as they do the flashbacks so that way you want them to get the revenge totally and this episode succeeded yeah and that or I thought a whole season of that didn't really quite hit it it's that is yeah

Starting point is 00:07:19 like how in one episode they're able able to get like I didn't like full on cry this episode but I did like shed a tear or two I got misty-eyed when the real shoe drops and the grim reality sets in because yeah they do sort of what feels like effortlessly arrest you into these moments and and the way they chose to unfold their story and the way that they kept the wraparound going you know to keep you tied into the present felt very well proportioned and very kind of uh fluidly composed, I suppose, because, yeah, like, it makes absolute sense why you would need this deep dive now, and we're, you know, entering the halfway point of the season. And so, yeah, like, this story, functionally brings us closer to Duffy and gives her and reach her a better eye line and, and by extension, the rest of the team, better eye line.

Starting point is 00:08:15 And it serves to continue building up the threat that is Quinn, or whichever name he's going to be, you know, know truly revealed as and yeah like I really just enjoyed like I was just really endeared by the nuances and the choices and the whole way they meet him you know being apprehensive about having any kind of help and then her coming in and being like oh I did my research on you and judging by the room like she yeah it's like you know you can see how you wouldn't expect them to have similar approaches or similar you know just like mindsets when it comes to things and it made for a very natural first impression and it really was charming to watch the way in which

Starting point is 00:08:58 yeah like reach or truly wants just to have a peer or peers who are you know who excel at their own strengths but who also you know effortlessly kind of align with you know the way that at least he likes to do things and and that methodical but you know respectful nature of things and yeah it's like their flavors you wouldn't necessarily guess would go together, but like watching them bond and watching them like on a stakeout. Like on a stakeout is a good way to have like, ooh, the crime action is happening. But also it's an excuse for characters to learn and get to know each other. And yeah, like all that contributed to the fact. And too, him looking out for her was just a nice way of making it so like,

Starting point is 00:09:40 oh, Jack Reacher is an especially enlightened guy. He's aware of the fact that yes, there are a lot of ways in which women especially are diminished in various leadership positions or in the military or any, you know, any, you know, status of power and authority. And even that thread, I was just super endearing. It's like, you know, like truly like Big Brother looking out for you, looking out for my peer. And when, you know, the reality sets in, you find yourself bargaining, even though you know what's going to happen, you're, or I was arrested in that moment of like, you know the same way on the current timeline we're like are we going to find uh what's her name teresa uh you know part of me is like well maybe we can find dominique and she'll be okay but i know

Starting point is 00:10:24 she's not going to be okay and like it's good when they get you kind of bargaining with yourself and sort of hoping against hope that maybe what you know is going to happen maybe it's not going to be that and then yeah to capture the reality the outcome the way they did i thought was really well handled because you know i remember the first season really struck us when you see that one dude nailed to the wall and like you see that it's gross and it leaves uh an impact it really stands out though because it's so like jarringly gross so this show's never done anything since then to be that like jarringly gross yeah exactly the only reason i think it still works is because it is just like well it's just a nail gun so like conceivably you could do this but also like how extreme and this wasn't

Starting point is 00:11:08 quite as extreme as that but it is like really icky and harsh and the fact that again like they they strung her up in a barn is a very loaded thing to have done anyway but yeah playing so much of that in it will feel this tasteful if they actually showed it yeah or exploitative and you know you get just enough it's like these intimate little details you see her feet

Starting point is 00:11:31 and the space and the blood and you see like I really appreciated the choice to have that deep focus lens when he's at the doorway and he leaves frame it's the one time you could theoretically make the whole image out but it's all out of focus you can't and it's yeah it all serves to crystallize this moment that is clearly important to this character we've seen return a lot of positions and certainly season two brought a lot of that personal like i feel some level of responsibility how could somebody i you know trust and care about potentially be involved in some kind of crime and or you know met an unseemly end and this was like for the

Starting point is 00:12:14 amount of for how reticent he's been to speak about it you can see we've had all these scenes in the lead up to this episode in season three of him you know clearly playing out probably that moment in his you know mind's eye to to then solidify it there and to see his face as that moment of trauma and that moment of you know taking the responsibility like you should go you should be the one to do it he's trying to help her out by sending her out to do this arrest and you know had he not done that things might have been different and you believe the human bargain of that and the weight of the responsibility a character like reacher would accept in the wake of this and yeah you without too many words or a big melodramatic like falling to the floor and crying kind of seen like

Starting point is 00:13:02 the emotional impact resounds heavily and yeah it's funny that you have like a season two that has so much flashback and then this season has like this one major flashback that like is so rich you know and it does and granted there's a lot less to do

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Starting point is 00:16:54 getting beers because it's about propelling her image up and even i as an audience when she walks in I'm like she looks a little like shy or something little green and then before you know it she's like just as like hyper observant and analytical a great at reading a room like physical stuff and telling about a character like how reach her is right away it surprises you which is effective because reach her surprise by how good she is too so it works but as the story progresses that blue dark lighting which is very much reflective of their present day picks up starts picking up in starts entering the flashback yeah and then by the end of course it is like very much today of whenever we are in the night time of our present day storyline whereas it is a descent into darkness so there is like a cool uh cinematography telling of what we're watching with the flashback as well definitely and too just the way they draw that air of paranoia it's like you know oh the guy yeah i thought everyone was like oh even the lead guy who was helping him out of the end i'm like he's going to like shit yeah 100% 100% so like yeah and i appreciate and i don't know if that was exactly their intent i feel like it probably would be and yeah like it just engages you that much further like it really puts you in the flashback rather than feeling like you're being told information and then when we cut back to you know present day like i thought i was really charming to get that aside with uh with what's named richard the son uh you know that little brotherly back and forth that they're developing

Starting point is 00:18:27 I think is quite charming. And then also the kind of fun of the season, which is like, okay, so I finally did the next part of the puzzle in solidifying my position as number two. It's like every problem that arises, every solution leads directly into another sort of like, oh, shit, now I got to go put this fire out because the solution I came up for the previous problem is now creating a new problem. Now we have all this intel from Angel Doll's computer, but now Angel Doll's computer is going to leave them directly to Duffy and, uh, and, uh,

Starting point is 00:18:57 the other guy. And so that's fun, you know, as much as obviously these guys are formidable. And too, the reveal of Quinn in the flashback is cool because it's like we meet face to face. You hear how he talks and you see

Starting point is 00:19:13 like you have this expounding of information about like, oh man, his file's crazy. He's like torturing animals and he's a sociopath and he's a malignant narcissist and all this stuff. And then you meet him and he's just like bargaining in a way that yeah, feels kind of sociopathic or feels

Starting point is 00:19:29 yeah like snaky and and and was an instantly confident tactical liar yeah totally totally and like it's unexpected like you know yeah you might expect a different posturing from a character like this but yeah he's just like literally

Starting point is 00:19:45 reading the situation and coming up with the next possible you know lie or whatever it would be and to have it come down to what's our first name you know you know so you're selling me this that she was corrupt to what's her first name it's always like a detail like that but i thought that was really nice and too like those some of the most uh horrendous villains are people who you

Starting point is 00:20:08 wouldn't necessarily expect just from their outward demeanor and i thought the quinn performance at least in the past had that quality where you're like ooh you might not make this guy like at face value but like ooh that's even creepier especially when you see what happened to cole you know to uh dominique and uh yeah It's like it still adds to the tension of meeting him in the present, you know. Yeah. Yeah. And I think my favorite, my last thing is that the, I think they're doing a really good job at giving you little moments.

Starting point is 00:20:43 It's like the emotions of Richard, of Jack Reacher, the character come through in micro moments. And these micros build up enough to make macro differences. And, you know, sometimes it's more apparent or obvious if we're getting like the stakeout. seen or whatever or seeing the death of dominique and that but it's like even there the death of dominique and then that moment we're like it looks like this guy cry right now and he says take a breath and do a job or something like subtle with him getting clothes i don't know where they're going with this whole frenchmaid story but the curious about that feels very like it's the most like uh i don't know it's not it's only four episodes in but currently i'm like this is a very

Starting point is 00:21:25 action movie type of thing happening here it is a little bit the hot French me I'm rooting for well yeah the hot French maid

Starting point is 00:21:35 and the chef lady I'm rooting for that to you know it's charming when it's there I'm not bothered by it no but the just really quick it is the

Starting point is 00:21:45 when he gets the clothes and he says like there's like there's like this weird awkward pause and he's like I haven't smelled new clothes in a while

Starting point is 00:21:53 and like things like that I think add richness to Ellen Richson's character, so they had texture. Yeah, I thought, I think it's, I think it's good stuff. I think it's really good stuff. I think everything, everything about it's really

Starting point is 00:22:05 good. And, uh, yeah, but I'm, I'm rooting for the French lady and the chef to amount to, I'm curious about them because I think it's, it's a fun trope. And it's a true trope that like, oftentimes it's like the help or the people in the kitchen or, you know, the people in stations that are like, non-involved with the operation are often the people who are able to catch stray details or hear things because people kind of forget that they're there or they don't you know estimate anything of their presence and so I hope that I'm charmed yeah by the thread that that is so far and I'm hoping that it amounts to you know perhaps some interesting you know piece of intel or development as we go because yeah just the back and forth there is is is fun to watch regardless um what did you guys think of the episode is it the best one so far should we get a

Starting point is 00:23:01 spin off about uh cole where there's just this story but more expanded because there would be no other stories to tell leave us the comments leave us all your thoughts and we'll catch you next week for season 3 episode 5 this has truly been terrific thus far and i cannot wait to continue thank you guys Peace Jamie's son My man Jamie's song patron of the day shoutout

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The Reel Rejects - REACHER 3x04 Breakdown and Review!!!!

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