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Starting point is 00:01:43 Oh, did it! We are here today to kick off Reacher Season 2, Episode 1, John. How pumped! Oh, are you? It would be a reach to say I'm not jacked about this, G. That's some Alan Tudik. That's right. Alan Tudik, my bad. On the Tudik path.

Starting point is 00:02:05 You know, he's got some buff. The citizens, please, go ahead. Leave a like on this video. That would mean a lot. Also, subscribe, click the notification bell to get notified when our reaction for episode two is up on the channel. If you didn't catcher, Reacher Reacher reactions for season one. They are, of course, here. Thank you to Prepper for helping us edit down these highlights.

Starting point is 00:02:23 And as usual, a full-length reaction watch along where you sync up with your own copy of Reacher with us. available for our super sexy rejects over at our Patreon page and over there John and I cover several things exclusively with the highlights and watch longs included. Anywho, John, you ready? So ready. Let's do this. Let's do it. Hell yeah.

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Starting point is 00:07:02 again, we've started off in New York. It seems like there's at least a potential that we might stay there. In the first season, we were so immersed in the atmosphere of Margrave, and I hope that we can get more of just that unique atmosphere again. But yeah, I don't know. It's just great to be back in and among the characters of this work. It's a lot of setup and stuff like that. We're just meeting the key players and getting the lay of the land.

Starting point is 00:07:27 So, you know, I mean, I feel like this is a good starting point for the season. I'm not like, oh, my God, this is among the top episodes of Jack Reacher, but I'm thrilled, you know. This gave me a lot of the things I would hope for upon reentry, and now I'm just excited to see how the mystery grows and grabs me and pulls me in with the blend of personal and badassness. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I know we're talking about, most people will just watch the first. What, they released three? Yeah. And most people probably already watching and finish the other two by now.

Starting point is 00:07:59 So I'll keep whatever slight criticisms or concerns tempered because I'm like, well, let's just see. They released a few out of top for a reason, right? Yeah. But for a premiere episode, a great just return for Alan Richardson again. loved the guy so much and he that loneliness in the past couple years he has significantly buffed up

Starting point is 00:08:23 compared to Jack Richard never go back that sophomore entry in the Tom Cruise entry it's it's fun because in that movie they had the whole he walks up to a guy in a car window smashes it like nobody's business and they open with this one

Starting point is 00:08:39 and it's a sophomore one but this is way better already than all of that yes terrible movie but i i loved i love i love i love the fact that we're getting him and neelie uh neely right you don't pronounce the g uh him and and neely partnered up together and just thinking about how they are evolving jack from the first episode first season he's he's he's kept

Starting point is 00:09:08 more at a distance and at a mystery and then oh you're compelled by the personal relationship between him and his brother and even though he's kept at an arm's length you're like i'm gravitated towards this buff mysterious wand work because clearly he is feeling the anguish of the loss of his his brother and now they're keeping that loss going uh with other brothers and sisters uh the ones that he served with chose together but he was also the leader of and it's an interesting um relationship of sorts because while he whilst he was the leader he wanted to be seen as an equal it seems like you know like yeah if i if i give a command you got to obey the command however he does like don't call me major don't call me sir

Starting point is 00:09:54 we are we are equals here and and trust my judgment but don't fear my rank and as much it seems like everyone really looked up to him the one who died is the one who most wanted to be him is the one who most looked up to him and last season he wanted to be so much like his brother and now he has to it starts off with avenging the one who uh wanted to be like him the most and so it's it's cool like dovetail of a story so i feel like storytelling wise it's appropriate to go down this path and then to get these flashbacks flushing out his time in the military flushing out his time as a major i think is really cool there's a lot of interesting ingredients that i'm excited to see how the recipe ultimately cooks by the end and uh action violence yeah all strong stuff i do think that it would

Starting point is 00:10:42 be kind of a mistake to compare the the first episode of like because on your pilot like you really got to make a bang and you know but then for a first episode of a season two where you're aired a few on the same day you already have the audience's faith. I'm like well let's just play it out you know yeah it was like in season one you got to really got to hook you on that first episode because that pilot was like near perfect yeah and it's got to be like a little short film almost. Yeah. And it's got to be like a little short film almost. Yeah, where it's like the, so I'm trying to understand some of the stylistic choices a little bit better at so I'm like, okay, so we're in the flashbacks of the military, we're in green, it makes sense, army people,

Starting point is 00:11:21 all right, I got it. And then we're in the blue of the New York, New York vibe. All right, sweet, I get it. We're in L.A., we're in that yellow. Yeah, totally. So I'm trying to understand the visual language a little bit.

Starting point is 00:11:32 I don't know if it's just like neat cinematography choices of what they're doing, but, you know, the music was something that was so integral to last season of something that created, an atmosphere to it and the soundtrack was it was completely intentional and in tune with the character as well and here i'm trying to just kind of grasp i don't know if i'm overthinking it but

Starting point is 00:11:53 the show's kind of made me pay attention to the music considering what they did in the first season yeah like what are these tracks you know like well do the tracks have any meaning like how they had the last season you know it does make me wonder what the shape of this season is going to be like just because this episode is more i guess by comparison to the first season i thought just overall they demonstrated a nice balance of like here are some are like thoughtful character-based scenes that will tie back around to the theme or to the mystery or whatever it is and and namely among those things they had that thread of jack and his you know like cultural anthropological interest in music and like come into this region to learn stuff about such and such

Starting point is 00:12:32 a singer and it's like those those are character earmarks that I thought were really fun and enjoyable and I like that this thus far has that same kind of yeah vibrant uh you know assembled soundtrack but it does make me wonder like this felt a little bit more like an episodic show where the first season had a a really nice blend of i mean it's obviously it's a very serialized mystery um but i don't know that that one felt like it carried itself almost like a limited series in a way whereas this one at least just at the outset this episode felt like more of a part of like an ongoing series in a different way. So yeah, it's like

Starting point is 00:13:10 it's not like it's totally different or anything like that, but it's much more at least at the outset I think kind of focused in on the plot and these people and it makes sense because they're so personal to Jack, but it is, it does make me curious because the first season, yeah, had so much of he's just meeting all these new people

Starting point is 00:13:26 and that gives it all this flavor with the mystery and he had that exchange with the girl in the pawn shop but that's the only kind of real like we're in acting with local flavor you know have you seen the equalizer movies i've seen the first one i think okay so in the first equalizer movie i would like and that's kind of the first season of reacher where so much of you learning about the characters is the other characters learning about him like

Starting point is 00:13:52 this guy is unstoppable killing machine and he's a hyper genius yeah and who is he yeah yeah and then equalizer two is when it gets more introspective you're more from reacher you're more from uh denzel's perspective in that movie and it becomes more of a character study of him and the real and now you're just you're in on the know of of who jack reacher is in this season so i kind think that's what they're doing here yeah first season he is more of a mystery so you're looking at him from the perspective a lot of these other characters and then this season immediately is just kicking off with we're we're with him and now we're getting more personal with him we're seeing what these other relationships the his friendships are like the communal experience with reacher is

Starting point is 00:14:33 like he's getting the team is getting back together even though they don't want to get back together for like for fun for the reunion yeah yeah they're getting back together for a very specific cause and and uh it's going to be rooted in in vengeance and there's something linked to their past of something they've discovered before whatever yeah so yeah like it it's it there are aspects of this that i that very much remind me actually of equalizer too and and and uh and i i I guess I'm just waiting to see how the ensemble fully fleshes out because that was one thing the pilot did in the last one was they made every character like really intriguing right off the bat and an overall aura where here we were cutting around to like New York Los Angeles and flashbacks and so there's there's an established tone that we that I think just needs a little bit time to fully settle and breathe and then we will have a better crisp understanding and focus of what to. zero in on but uh but you know we got seems like we got a villain set up with robert patrick at least it looks like it looks like we got a villain set up with that one dude who's

Starting point is 00:15:43 with passports oh yeah the a m guy yeah yeah yeah and then we have uh i like i like i like i love the actresses plays neely i think she's a great actress and i like the other guy i forget his name already but i like the other guy yeah yeah yeah he he's i can't the show could go either one or two ways like they're they're teasing him to be the guy who's like a traitor or they want you to think he's the trigger because he seems like he'd be the obvious one right exactly totally uh but i i i really have no clue and and uh that's going to be yeah that's going to be a big part of the fun and i imagine the more of the people if we are if there are more survivors of uh you know the special investigators out there you know it'll only be more and more interesting i hope to a get to know them see what they reveal about reacher and b i don't know i mean it it it If we do me more of them, it could be any one of them, you know, involved somehow. To your point, it does feel a little bit more straightforward. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:16:43 And not as much of the unique voice and flavor. Yeah. It's just a little bit more like, oh, what I imagined a Jack Reacher show would be like when I was told there be a show. Yeah, the first season. And then if we watch it, I was like, oh, this is so much better than I thought. Yeah. Yeah, this is good, but it's not, but there is a special, unique kind of voice. It transcends being an investigative procedural show by having such a great flair for tone, atmosphere, and characters.

Starting point is 00:17:16 Yeah. And I can see all of the pieces of that here, but yeah, I think it is partly because we are going so many places in this first episode. And because we do already know Jack, at least, you know, to a fair enough extent, yeah. I could see how maybe it'll take a minute, hopefully, maybe by episode two even, just to kind of, it's just to get that sensibility back. Because it does excite me to be like, okay, so we did that with Margreve and we really immersed in that environment. What's it's going to be like to do that in New York? Well, yeah, I mean, this is New York and L.A. that's kind of, it's a general populace. It's just metropolis.

Starting point is 00:17:51 Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So it's like, how is that? How are we going to get that more unique? Or small town. It's intimate. You know. Yeah. Yeah, there's just, yeah, there's that natural sense of atmosphere and personality just by being there, you know. Yeah. Yeah, so much stuff takes place in metropolitan cities.

Starting point is 00:18:06 And this whole review can be rendered pointless. Why? I've been, that's the thing is when you, if this was like the only one they released, we could probably talk for longer. Yeah, no, but I'm just excited to see what's nice. I'm going to cut us short because I'm like, there's already another episode. So let's just see if anything we're saying is anything we have to even be concerned. Yeah, I'm excited regardless. Yeah, guys.

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The Reel Rejects - REACHER SEASON 2 EPISODE 1 REVIEW! 2x1 Breakdown!

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