The Reel Rejects - REACHER Season 2 Episode 6 REVIEW & BREAKDOWN

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Starting point is 00:04:32 Yeah, I mean, if you're listening to us on Apple and Spotify, we just watch Reacher Season 2, Episode 6. And whilst we have been on a journey with this particular season, and it was a little bit up and down. I know for many people it was already like a solid, like, oh, this is great right away. And for us, it wasn't quite that in the beginning. And then by four, I was like, oh, this is really. the son of jai with me five i thought was really good and this was like wow this was i'm loving this phenomenal and it's i just pause this by accident on director of photography bernard couture and we don't often shout out the dps on these shows like their names specifically and i'm glad i

Starting point is 00:05:12 excelled here because the cinematography of this episode was phenomenal here i thought it was absolutely excellent it was like the number one thing i was commenting on uh while we were watching it because you know like we have often uh talked about the distinguishable differences between what season one did and what season two did. And I think that this episode kind of made it all sort of emblematic of what the season was sort of building to in terms of its aesthetic and voice of what it wanted to encapsulate. Because you're cutting around between Colorado and New York primarily two very cold areas. One's a busy bustling city and the other is not quite that. It's more naturistic.

Starting point is 00:05:55 Alpine as we're seeing it here. Yeah, yeah. And there's the main spots you're cut in between other than like flashbacks. And here, I thought they really captured, like, season one's very, you know, grimy and what's a word that you use? Like, what's a John word that you use? I mean, season one is both, like, grimy, but it's also got, like, a lot of air to it. Like, it's got a lot of. It's got that swampy Southern Gothic flair.

Starting point is 00:06:22 Yeah, it's got a lot of breath and atmosphere. And so does, and this one does. too but it's much more cold and for lack of a better word but they that's something that i was saying that i really wish that they would um really capitalize on and i felt like they were kind of just doing that more and more as the season has been progressing and this one really brought it to that point where it's like this is they're in the darkness not just with uh with the characters this is mainly in the dark so much of this is shot in the shadows but the way they allow other elements around them via night light stuff to illuminate certain scene work, whether they'd

Starting point is 00:07:00 be gun flares or just lights descending from lamp post or whatever, city lights and car lights. There's a lot that they've been using to just enhance the experience of it, but then the breath that everyone's feeling and you could feel the coldness, whereas the last one, last thing, you can feel the hot, the heat of it all. Yeah, you're training hot and sticky for damp and cold. Yeah, and I freaking love it. Like, I just, I just love the commitment. Like, to me, I'm very much, when people talk about atmosphere,

Starting point is 00:07:27 the thing I'm always kind of, that's often like a mood or a tone. And to me, I'm big on feeling the environment. Yeah. And the weather. And I think that was such a flavor of last season. And then here you're getting the counter to that. But it feels very complimentary with all the characters you have and then having to. And then, yeah, especially, there's something to me about when you see the breath.

Starting point is 00:07:56 I think that's something that can often be overlooked. But I like seeing like these actors really shot the shit in the cold. Yeah, and when you can tell that it's real fog breath and not like CG fog. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, totally. Like another show we were watching. I can't imagine what show you could be talking about. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:08:13 Yeah, no, I agree with everything you've said here. Like this was the one that really clicked together everything that this, new season is doing but with some of the qualitative flourishes i loved so much that it endeared me so heavily to the first season and yeah like i love the way that this episode breathed i love the way it drew tension and mystery and you know just the i think the amount of characters the amount of you know players in this big you know machination that's going on with little wing and new age and all that stuff like it felt proportioned in a really nice way here and yeah we got a bunch of really quality scenes that sung based on acting and just everything we know up until now.

Starting point is 00:08:58 It rewards you for keeping track of the details, but also we got just some really top-notch performances in these interrogation moments or like, you know, when they're luring out and trying to talk to Marlowe in the house. And then Rousseau goes and talks to that other guy who's on the take, who's, you know, who've been involved with all this mess that they've, you know, been dealing with and everything. And just those moments where you catch yourself. And you're like, oh, man, this, we've not cut away from this. Like, we're just letting the acting and the breath of the scene and the room kind of carry all this. And there was that kind of humorous moment of like you comments like, oh, I love that this chase is unfolding without music.

Starting point is 00:09:36 And the music kicks in. But there are a number of moments throughout this where I think, yeah, they did trust just the environment and the real tension of just being in the situation and how loud just silence and ambient noise can get when. you're in some kind of intense altercation. And I think this episode had a really terrific grip on that that elevated so many different scenes. Even the one brief moment where we check in with AM was appropriately sort of like harsh

Starting point is 00:10:03 and sinister for what it was and you felt the cold and you felt the sort of sad poetic injustice of how he just like took out this cop cold and just moves on. And yeah, it's like all the little details are great and you know we get a little bit

Starting point is 00:10:21 catharsis with dixon and jack and i'm still terrified that you're going to be right especially because we're moving into the point where swan is now perhaps uh going to prove to be on the right side of things and you know prove that jack's faith you know is good but then you know maybe they'll come in i don't know i can't tell if it's going to be that his uh you know judgment is sound all the way through and you know the suspicions with dixon will be unfounded but also i know how drama works and that would be a hell of a, you know, knife to stick in our side as viewers. She is a villain. She's really committed to the act.

Starting point is 00:10:56 Yeah. Murdering a lot of Langston's people. Yeah. Well, you know, she's really deep. Sometimes being a double age, it's hard. You got to do some unsafety choices to sell in your cover. Yeah, yeah, I completely echo that. Because while you got some scenes that are a little bit more direct in terms of its

Starting point is 00:11:16 emotionality, like with, oh my God, what's cops? name rousseau and his captain yeah chief of police i don't know i got a serpico yeah well i mean serpico is is russo because he doesn't he's no snitch he doesn't say the envelope that's what a serpico is yeah yeah you've not seen sirpico it's been a long time is he's not a or maybe it was carlito's way there was a period of time where you were lending me all these Pacino movies serpico man so i should probably watch serpico again serpico Serpico reaction, baby. That's great.

Starting point is 00:11:51 No, Serpico is the... Frank Serpico was a real guy who refused to be on the take. That's cool. And when everyone was on the take. And that is... And then in the 70s, I was like a really big thing. And then he exposed a lot and he was shunned.

Starting point is 00:12:10 There was a whole, whole ordeal. And he had a big beer. He was a great big bushy banger. that has his main trait is that we look like a total hippie yeah he had a beard and integrity um it's funny about the movie though is they shot it backwards because to make because he grows the beard over time in the movie and it starts off with no hair and he goes and this they had to shoot it they started with the most beard yeah and then shaved it down crazy that's awesome hard acting job you have worked the entire thing backwards um you got to hope that you got everything you needed when your beard was

Starting point is 00:12:48 long so strange anyway um the but yeah like with that scene between him that you please that was great uh scene work where that was more direct about the the emotions of of uh what they represent here and like how they come from like the dad was the dad was like probably like the surpico would not deal with anything dirty and then he was surrounded by the amount of crookedness and stuff but a lot of it's rooted in fear and it's about going up against the fear going up against the threats and the manpower and stuff. So that was more direct. But then when you got like scenes such as the interrogation moment with Jack, Chad,

Starting point is 00:13:28 and Margo, Marlowe, them, where that's a little bit more plot heavy and a lot of expositional shit, what they do so good at is still capturing the fear that like Marlowe's experiencing and the intensity and the determined. behind what jack and company are after as well so even though there are scenes that could still just be like sometimes the plot exposition back and forth scenes can just feel that way you know we're just like man-man-man rhythm and then here this episode they really gave us scenes that were beyond that they were they would they would do that but they knew to ground it in some type of immediate emotion that even if you're not fully keeping up with all the the shit they're saying

Starting point is 00:14:18 that you're still latched onto the emotion of the scene you know and that's the most important thing and that was kind of what was missing for me in some of the other earlier episodes i'm like yeah there's there's a lot of back and forth there's a lot of scenes you got a build to it i get it um that's that's a good observation though because that's what tempers i think yeah in the first few episodes i was like okay we got a lot of details and we got a lot of people and we got a lot of history that's been told to us but like to get to the point where we can have the emotional moments that can transcend all that and just form the attachment between viewer and characters yeah you know that was the stuff that yeah i was hoping for more of that that has only grown as the season has gone on

Starting point is 00:14:58 and was the best it's been i think in this episode yeah and i i loved uh i love allan richson's performance this season around because there's so much uh you could you could feel the worry in him that is like rising to the surface just in his eyes alone he's doing an excellent job and i think the guy plays rousseau is great it's a fascinating because it can't have easily just been like another roscow situation i'm not roscow finley finley it's another finley situation and while there's like some dynamics that you can sort of compare it's not the same thing and and i really do like that guy and i'm hoping that they're just doing some like ending scene yeah like he's dead and then he comes back he's in the hospital healing or some shit you know

Starting point is 00:15:46 I can see it going both ways with this show. This is an instance where I would be like, oh, yeah, please just like let him be alive. Because it would be heartbreaking and very effective because I think he gives an excellent, excellent performance. And I like seeing the way how certain seeds were planted that you kind of just feel like are pass away information that eventually come back around.

Starting point is 00:16:07 Little girl being gamer. You know, Russo talking with a kid at the funeral. Yeah. These little things that do ultimately factor into the bigger picture of the season or to a later episode I really like. Because sometimes these things happen in an episode and then they kind of just happen and you don't really know what the point of it is. And then they come back to like a later episode. It's like a function of like, oh, look, he's nice to kids. But like it says something about him in the previous episode.

Starting point is 00:16:39 And then it sets up this natural, you know, reason that he would initially be taken aback. but also like, yeah, okay. I can watch this kid. And on top of that, too, I just love how much of a bulldozer, Jack, is this time around. You know, like, there was that one episode in last season where he was a one-man army, but he was like, I'm going to put on my makeup, I'm going to prepare my knives.

Starting point is 00:17:02 I'm going to do everything. And then here, when Marlowe's just in the middle of about to get shot, he just runs and starts shooting. It's like, everyone leave. I'm going to handle this. Yeah, I got it. It's not a tank. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:17:13 Let me just use my environment. And, yeah, this is a top of just great scenes throughout. Even if we didn't get like the action scenes, that was just like the cherry on top. And I just thought it built to the finale very well where every scene felt like before it's been like a political, it's been a political thriller. And this brought it to a more tangible crime drama. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:17:38 You know? And that makes it more personal when you, that genre in particular. I personally find to be more personal and intimate and that that's what it I think it I think you know what now I think about I feel like that was the ingredient secret sauce to season one was was that's a crime drama yeah you know it's not really a political like there's really it felt like crime drama first political thriller second and then this felt like the inverse where it was like political thriller first then crime drama yeah like a crime procedural and then the drama yeah kicks in later

Starting point is 00:18:13 And that's the thing is you don't want it to just feel like a procedural. Yeah. Yeah. I thought this was freaking awesome. It was really cool. The action was really cool, too. Yeah. It was really cool action.

Starting point is 00:18:26 Oh, my God. The dudes are going to the bus. Yeah. And he's just murking him. And yeah, like you said, the shadows, the way they use the lighting, the way they really make it feel dark and cold and damp and scuzzy. And yeah. Scuzzy was the word I was looking for. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:18:41 It's really nicely. It's nicely. It's nicely. handled in a way that's that is really effective. Yeah. It's not like in your face at the same time. Like it's a, it's really nicely chosen.

Starting point is 00:18:53 And even when they pull out some weird lens or something, it's always like well chosen here. Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot of shots here that I think could be very overlooked. Oh, yeah. Like, I love the shot with the helicopter descending and Jack running away.

Starting point is 00:19:07 And there's a lot of just really well-composed shots. Yeah. And it took a lot of thought. And the only thing that kind of distract me is when they're on this city streets, and it's just completely vacant. You're not a movie or show. Sure. The fact that you're doing this with such clean cinematography,

Starting point is 00:19:25 like you're not relying on a bunch of wild cuts. Like you could really keep up. The camera looks really locked on. And it's not going all handheld and like cut, cut, cut, cut to mask your lack of space you had to work with. yeah i'll take actual car stunts and actual chase over vehicle extras yeah it's like if i got a trade i'll take that yeah there's always so much you can do um but yeah i mean overall but yeah this was a really great episode yeah um this this was truly a great episode i'm looking forward to the next two right two more two more thank all right we'll knock it out

Starting point is 00:20:07 the park guys thank you so much for being here um if you're listening to apple spotify please right this video and thank you everyone who's been on this journey with reach her with us and we will catch you all soon thank you very much bye

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The Reel Rejects - REACHER Season 2 Episode 6 REVIEW & BREAKDOWN

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