The Reel Rejects - REACHER SEASON 2 Episode 2 and 3 Breakdown and Review!

Episode Date: December 15, 2023

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Starting point is 00:06:42 Thank you for partnering with us. Jeez. Jesus, Christi. Well, John, what did you think? I enjoyed these episodes. I think the third. one was my favorite but I do think well I don't know actually now that you have challenged me on this off the dome thought I just threw out here maybe recency
Starting point is 00:07:04 bias is sway I mean Atlantic City was really you know wow didn't think I got so much pushback on this well you know I mean that suggests to me that maybe you like the second episode better that's so really I mean yes I like these both. I thought that they progressively started to synthesize the flavors of Jack Reacher that make the show
Starting point is 00:07:31 Reacher what it is. Or at least what I associate. Well, I don't know. You know, I think maybe it's all falling apart and this is the worst episode I've seen yet. Why don't you lower my mic? You know, sure.
Starting point is 00:07:44 No. It's, of course, my B. Yeah, no, I liked the totality of these two episodes I think I like them both better than the first one just in terms of like impact and enjoyment
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Starting point is 00:08:17 I I liked that in the second episode we got more we got a group scene with everybody just chilling out and then we got some personal time with what is her name again I need to commit it to memory
Starting point is 00:08:31 the one who you suspect who is the numbers oh the hot lady yes just call that there's a hot one yep I liked getting some there's Neely and the hot one
Starting point is 00:08:43 Neely and the hot one not to talk to on Neely's good looks and and then there's Sam Rockwell guy Pretty boy, and Jack Reacher, and well, you know, and then there's Orozco and Sanchez and, uh, I'm tense. And Frenchy or whatever his name is. And, yeah. And there's New York. New York cop. Anyhow. Yeah, I don't know. By the third episode, it felt a bit more like the balance finally of those, you know, just kind of lived in little nuances and stuff like that, or at least getting closer to that. flavor that the first season had with the you know
Starting point is 00:09:25 atmospherics and the character beats but also continuing you know this mystery why do you want to just be the first season John why can't you just accept the fact that this is a different season you know just like the books the books they take place in different locations and different flares and different ensembles
Starting point is 00:09:40 Jack Reacher is the constant yeah and I guess Neely and Lee Child writes every book like it's just totally different author uh yeah I'm just I'm so compelled by your spa day over here it's okay I mean it's not the same
Starting point is 00:10:01 obviously but can you imagine you have a massage or something like that everyone's thumbs break yeah no one can go hard enough on those knots but yeah I don't know the mystery is mounting I think it's interesting that we have met you know the puppet puller
Starting point is 00:10:18 the string puller puppet master already and is a character who does not seem in as much control as like the heavy from last season. I think it's an interesting position to put a Robert Patrick in where he seems, you know, certainly at the outset, like he's a menacing kind of guy, but the more we learn about him, the more it seems like, oh, you're not maybe as experienced with this stuff as you want to appear as being, which is kind of a neat thread. Yeah, I don't know, three episodes, then I feel a bit more. solidified than I did at the end of the first episode
Starting point is 00:10:52 because the first episode did feel very much like, all right, we got this gang together and we're doing the plot, we're doing the mystery, we're doing all that stuff, but I've been yeah, just looking forward to the more nuanced flourishes the show is good at, and I feel like those are mounting with each progressive
Starting point is 00:11:08 episode to some degree. What did you think, G? Well, I think compared to the first season, everything must be compared to the first season. It must be. uh no i don't have it compared to the first season i think the show's good i think it's okay right now i'm not in love with it same i really because the way you spoke about it just seemed like the most
Starting point is 00:11:33 positive shit i've ever heard nothing could be more positive i liked these episodes and i like it the you know i i have increasingly liked it as we've watched it but i won't pretend that i am as enthralled or joyous about what yeah how it kind of is presenting at the moment as compared to the first season that immaculate first season the tom cruise movies it was a pretty great first season I can't deny that it was pretty special yeah yeah yeah like right now there's this show right now just taking on its own merit because really there's no connection to the first season
Starting point is 00:12:19 not at all they don't even acknowledge really those characters which is what I sort of expected yeah I expected that this is what they would do so I want to kind of judge it just based off of this show itself I think though when drawing comparisons to the first season that is to
Starting point is 00:12:35 say that the first season just felt like it's a very unique type of gothic Southern Gothic investigative mystery show with an ensemble of characters that really shine beyond Jack Reacher and here
Starting point is 00:12:56 you've got the setting of New York which doesn't really feel palpable or East Coast I would say like they got Atlantic City in New York and I don't really get the and I thought like okay maybe they should embody some of that a little bit more because like city and environment you got first season had music tracks
Starting point is 00:13:19 this has music tracks but except they're just kind of here first season has fight scenes this has fight scenes and they're good here they don't feel as special they feel more requisite yeah yeah
Starting point is 00:13:34 and first season had Jack Reacher you got Jack here they have an ensemble last one they have an ensemble here and so it's like this similar pieces different looks for sure i i guess i just don't find the mystery um like sure do i want to know find out what happens yeah sure why not uh that's what's your but to its defense um i remembered being here with you in the first season being like yeah i'm not
Starting point is 00:14:13 that intrigued by like the mystery itself is not really the main appeal it's it's uh everything surrounding the mystery that that is truly the appeal of the show and it's the atmosphere and the characters and i can't say that for this one uh so far i think the ensemble i love the context of it i love the idea of the characters yeah people from richer's past instead of richer being like solo cool mysterious guy he gets to share some of the burden here share some of the grief here uh like both like physically and literally sharing the grief the load of the grief and uh people who he's like closer from his past instead of uh you know wander amid strangers and yet and while i think the chemistry with everyone is
Starting point is 00:15:13 pretty good. I think everyone's chemistry is pretty good. And I believe the history, like, I believe they all have known each other. I don't just feel like there's actors cast who are slapped together in a room to pretend like they've known each other. Like, I buy that. I can't quite place my finger on it yet. It still seems like kind of a typical show now. It doesn't quite sing of uniqueness other than it feels like a network TV show that has an R-rated flourish once in a while like oh there's F words here oh it's a little more violent than I
Starting point is 00:15:50 than you would see on network TV like general network TV like don't be wrong network TV can at like 10 p.m. slot shows they can go pretty freaking violent you know yeah then but here they won't go F bombs you know and and that's That's about, and then once in a while I do like a cool thing that I'm like, oh, that's surprising and really cool, you know, like with the backing into the parking lot. That way they capture that shot.
Starting point is 00:16:22 Like I prefer when they do something that does embody a little bit more of the atmosphere of the snow falling and stuff like that or or even getting like a super New York cop, super New York detective. Like I really like that as much as it's like kind of. funny is you have like just the most new yorkest detect you ever detect in new york it helps lend a distinguishability between this season and last and adds a real personality and flavor and i think with its main ensemble of characters as much i like i like the atlantic city hotel bonding scene i think one of them needs to get killed off a little bit earlier one of our main core probably yeah because i'm like i mean you got the four you guys together it's pretty like got like other than jack reacher like yeah he's like jack sledgehammer i get it but you know
Starting point is 00:17:19 essentially four jack reachers yeah you all have similar skills yeah you're you're your four jack reachers and you and each one of you just has like okay like hot girl is is uh you know there's more enhanced with numbers yes then the other ones yeah they're all just jack reachers with a special skill yeah like what but they all share similar skills yeah like they fight the same they yeah they think as a unit they think yeah and so uh i guess they really need to sell it it would be more compelling if they really sold us on the danger and the threat other okay a couple of them were killed off we didn't really know them so it would be i think it would have helped just kind of like flipping some perspective here or allowing or or certain
Starting point is 00:18:11 buildup to them coming together as a unit again like you don't mess with the special investigative like well could have used a little bit more of a bill to these guys instead of you you can't just throw that in here without feels like a bit of a meme slogan that they told us it feels like we were recounted the anecdote but didn't quite get like the full experience to where we are now clued in on you know i don't know the the the the true true charm and earning of the you don't mess with the special investigator sentiment yeah yeah yeah so it does feel like there's some missing pieces here or like it feels to me like it feels like something written by different people or like a different creative voice guiding the show and i don't know
Starting point is 00:18:55 if they had any switchups in their writer's room but i feel like they started attending i don't know i don't i don't know the books and i and i don't like it's it's the it's the thing is like it's not it's not bad it's just not as well compelling or as interesting as or it's fun or uh you know there's a lot of a lot of every adjective i can think of i'm like it's all there just on the less of a higher level well the the thing at least to me here in this moment uh not to not to keep going back to the F.S., but, like, uh,
Starting point is 00:19:32 the, what seems different to me is that this feels more like it's being written like, this kind of show, if that makes sense. Like, it's being written more with the sentiment of like, let's give more cool lines and let's have them like, kind of quip each other in a way that feels a bit more heightened.
Starting point is 00:19:48 Like that, again, was always there. But it feels like they're writing it more like some kind of tactical thriller. rather than like the first season seemed to be like oh this is this feels like it was written to be like some sort of literary gothic mystery that happens to feature a soldier who is highly trained
Starting point is 00:20:09 and who can you know level anybody there's like a noirish quality to that it feels like you're yeah you're following some kind of anti-hero and there are multiple genres at work but it presents as some kind of military procedural thriller and this feels like it's mostly just trying to be a military procedural thriller and kind of eschewing the other things that it was so charming at being and that made it kind of reminds me of the piece of advice people say it's like if you want to write a genre watch a bunch of different or read a bunch of different genres read other stuff outside of that and bring that into your genre and where I'm feeling right now is mostly like this was mostly just fed on the same kind of stuff that this is trying to be it's it's incredibly straightforward yeah Yeah, to the point where it just loses. It's like taken aback by that.
Starting point is 00:20:59 Yeah, it loses a lot of its personality to me. And it makes the characters feel less alive. Yeah, like this core of characters, when they're all like really quipping with each other, I'm like, you all sound the same. And maybe you're trying to tell me that's the point that you all think alike because you're at one unit. But there should be some subtle differences
Starting point is 00:21:20 if you were all such a great view. At the same time, you're like, You're a, you're a show, you're a movie. You're like, I would hate to watch, like, Oceans 11 or something. You'd be like, they all sound exactly the same. Like, no, I come here to watch, like, distinguish personalities interact with each other. Yeah, you know? And for the most part, you're all, you all sound the same.
Starting point is 00:21:42 And it does make it feel like the, it doesn't feel alive, makes it feel less alive and it makes it, like, it's just not as exciting. and and right now I am I'm not I'm not bored I'm just not as invested as perhaps I would like to be like I think look guys it's a season two so you're naturally going to compare it
Starting point is 00:22:08 especially when you're not a book reader of the in general like you still like books when the first season was such a surprise well you I think Roscoe and Henley Finley Finley
Starting point is 00:22:23 Yeah Roscoe and Finley Like black detective Who they keep bringing up Like why are you a black detective Here Yeah And then Roscoe
Starting point is 00:22:32 With her history to the town Who could just be a generic cop character Those two Are way more interesting To me Than anyone in this court group
Starting point is 00:22:43 Like they are way more interesting Well and he and Neely Like Neely was such an interesting presence And an interesting facet to add partway through the season there in the first when you juxtapose her with everyone else yeah yeah
Starting point is 00:22:58 exactly there's contrast and it's like I think there's a way to make it work with a bunch of people who share who are cut from the same cloth and who share a bunch of like experience it's like the first season had all the flashbacks and I felt like those even though those served a function in the present timeline of the story
Starting point is 00:23:13 I felt like we were spending time getting to know Jack Reacher throughout that and I feel like the flashbacks here ought to serve a similar purpose and they kind of do but they still feel more like information delivery than they do like let's dive into the character for a second and develop them i don't know it just doesn't feel like there's much of a character story beyond the plot no there's not and that's that's that's exactly what i was trying to bring up earlier was that it was the first season i remember the mystery
Starting point is 00:23:46 being kind of whatever like like i i kind of am interested in the mystery but i'm really it's everything around the mystery that makes it show so great yeah the mystery is cool and here it's like it's all about the plot in the investigation and i'm like with the personalities that the characters i'm not loving like i i'd rather be here just because i like jack reacher yeah i like what this show does so i'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt and to give a while to see where they take and i'd rather yeah i would i will gladly wait but you know when you do a three episode premiere I expect to
Starting point is 00:24:22 I'm naturally just I wish I was more looked by everything that's happening but right now yeah I'm not like chomping at the bit to watch episode four
Starting point is 00:24:33 yeah I don't think it's unfair to ask certain I don't know because the things we keep comparing to are broad I don't think it's unfair to be like I should feel the time and place and I feel like New York Atlantic City these are
Starting point is 00:24:45 places that beg that have their own personality that have their own life we should feel like we're there in the music like they clearly are making a point to have it so like make it meaningful like you did the first time or at least clue us in somehow rather than just having them talk over it and me going i like that there's music because that's kind of realistic but also the sound mix is a little bit like it's i'm not focused on the right thing right now and uh yeah i just don't think it's unfair to ask for those things when that's what set the show apart initially was the tone the atmosphere the place the character
Starting point is 00:25:19 oh and hey it just so happens there are great striking fights it's the other thing too is like the fight scenes are fine but in the first season there were moments where tons and tons of moments where it's like there was distinctive impactful and I don't know just sort of like
Starting point is 00:25:35 less chop chop and it's not even the action here is shot or edited poorly it's just like there was something that was almost like sumptuous about it the first time and it was really pronounced and it really crunched and like it does in the moment like I think him kicking in the hood of the cars the most impactful piece of that here and even the villains and stuff like that's like I think it's a cool subversion that we know that Robert Patrick is at least you know pretty much behind this or is a big player in this but you know the first season also has that contrast where they build up at least the villains with some pretty horrific like murder scenes and you're investigating that stuff and being like wow they they nailed this guy to a wall that's really stark
Starting point is 00:26:19 and upsetting you know and there's not really much of that kind of thing either really like even when it goes back i remember we had a moment in one of these episodes we were like oh that's right they do some messed up stuff sometimes on this show i don't even really feel like that is gonna happen or if it does happen i'll be kind of like oh that's right whereas before it felt like yeah those things would just happen appropriately at times when yeah you're coming across a crime scene or in the midst of some kind of scuffle or whatever i don't know I hate you I hate you
Starting point is 00:26:53 but not as much as I hate anything that's not season one of Jack Richard what are you guys are you just as satisfied as you were before uh yeah I'm a little tired I'm a little tired now
Starting point is 00:27:08 oh I'm a little more Nap Reacher I'm willing I'm willing before I cast a full judgment on and I would rather wait because I'm like shows done enough good yeah and um there's enough qualities i'm rooting for right now everything's just sort of because this could very well be a first season that's my point
Starting point is 00:27:33 and if this was a first season and i and i feel like you can do that with jack from what i know about jack reacher the novels from even watching the movies like yeah every new one is like a new start yeah new thing New story, they're episodic for the most part. Yeah, and I, other than some characters can carry over, you know, you can, sometimes it could just be a new jumping off point for someone. They don't have to start at the first Jack Reacher book, you know? Yeah, it could be, yeah, you could start with any of these.
Starting point is 00:28:05 Here are the best ones you might be interested in trying. Yeah, because I, from my understanding, not even like the first season is based off of the first book, right? Yeah, it's like I don't know, whatever. And same thing here. So my point being with that is, if this. was a first season, I'd be like, that's fun. This is about what I expected. Jack Reacher show to be.
Starting point is 00:28:25 I don't really need to watch the rest of the, like, yeah. Whereas here, I'm like, I've continued with it because I really love the first season. Because the first season left such an impression. And I'm really holding out here. And defied so beautifully the expectation of what you thought it would be. And frankly, the last thing I'll say is that on the idea of a unit is cool, but at the same time that kind of strips away, what makes Jack Reacher special is that he is the he is that's you ruin this specialty when because the idea is you placed this special anomaly of a military human being buff dude
Starting point is 00:29:04 in with this crazy Sherlock Holmes mind yeah in the middle of like normalcy yeah when you got like four of them you kind of and then you're following that and he's accompanied by that sometimes he's even asking questions to the group where I'm going, I feel like Jack Richard would know that. But he has to ask it now because he's with a group. And I think something, I don't think that couldn't work, but I think that's definitely the hazard is, yeah, now Jack isn't as special of a presence because there are a bunch of people who can do what he does and probably have a similar mindset, but also they haven't
Starting point is 00:29:40 really at least yet in the present day. It's like in the past you at least have the hierarchy and, you know, the dynamic of his leadership whereas here they're all kind of on equal footing well it's like well the other thing too is jack richard is you know like he's the drifter he's like doesn't have many money yes how much of identity yeah you know he's got he's got he's got to scrap whereas here is kind of like he's taking care of yeah he's got everyone's taking care of him that's why i'm like you got that's what i'm saying i feel like you got to kill off one of the four yeah earlier on create some problems you got you got you got to really put them in a bind or something like that's because you because right
Starting point is 00:30:18 now there's when I boil it down to something really simple at the simplest if you made it this far is I don't feel any tension I don't feel any stakes so when you don't have those qualities which is like the driving force the most basic driving force of any television other than like right now I got his baseline likeability for everything and nothing is egregiously bad He needs to go talk to the gun guy more So we can have any other character Who's just like a person in town Yeah, sure, yeah
Starting point is 00:30:54 Because that was one scene that kind of reminded me Of some of the lovely types of character moments Reacher can provide And I mean, not that it's the best one Well, that's why I like the scene with him being arrested In the cop because Yeah, that puts him out of his power position And it's a game of power dynamics again
Starting point is 00:31:14 And it's fun to see the cop actually arise as a character that we can like and trust yeah and that was a nice aversion where i thought he might have just been another bad guy following as well or he could have been a crooked cop yeah and so but i'm like oh i really believe this guy is as a good guy yeah and i like the the guy the a m guy they're chasing around the country sort of but i feel like because he is also a type a trope of like you know calm collected laconic hitman guy i feel like that again you need some contrast to really sell that
Starting point is 00:31:48 so that it doesn't just feel like a born you know pull or something like that yeah that's true I don't know they got all they need to to cook with I just hope that they they kick it up a notch yeah for real man
Starting point is 00:32:03 Emerald Lagassee put some more seasoning on this it's a very workman like meal right now all righty guys we'll leave your thoughts down below what do you think about Jack Reacher season two, premieres. Much love to everyone.
Starting point is 00:32:20 And, no, let's keep going. At least for RM, I mean, I'm sure there's a lot of people who really love it. Still looking forward. Happy you do. So let's see what it's like going with open minds as the season progresses. We'll see what goes on. Thank you guys so much for being here. We'll talk with you all soon.
Starting point is 00:32:37 All right, John, pick a name. Ooh, let's do this thing. Let's do a niece, I'll leave. Anisa, you know what you're getting for Christmas this year? Anisa, you're going to get two first-class tickets to Houston. Yes, that's right. Via the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport. Where did she live in Texas?
Starting point is 00:33:02 This joke would have landed this perfectly if I remembered specifically what city. The only city that I associate people I know with living in is Austin, and I don't feel like that's right. I hope that she's actually in Austin. She might actually be in Houston. Wait a minute. Well, she got us that sand. You remember that? The bottled sand, which I have on one of my shelves.
Starting point is 00:33:25 I don't know where your bottle is. It's right there. Oh, then let's, maybe that is from her sacred homeland of Port Oronis, Texas. Or maybe she just took a trip to Port Oronis, Texas. You know what you're getting for Christmas? a take two and on your take two you are going to be getting a mannequin of john humphrey it's going to be like one of those wax museum ones of john yes and we will keep it at your nearest arco gas station oh yeah with the dinosaur always in the bathroom that way with the dinosaur don't they have a
Starting point is 00:34:09 no i'm i'm thinking of a different station or the pegasusus either way the gas station bathroom. Take three. You know what you're getting this year? A Merry Christmas. A Merry Christmas. A Felicia Navidad. And a happy new year. And a good time with your family. Prospero anio if Felicidad. Merry Christmas. Anisa, we miss you. We hope to see you out here again in Porta Arunsa. Is it Aranis or is it Aransas? That's the problem. States have messed all this up. for me. And only me. Take four.

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