The Reel Rejects - REACHER SEASON 3 Episode 1 REVIEW!! SO F***ING GOOD!!

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Starting point is 00:01:04 Reject Nation, right now, I am at the Preserve here in L.A. We're on February 22nd this coming Saturday. The real rejects, all of us, are going to be having a panel here at Multi-Con. In addition to that, myself and Koi are going to be hosting two separate other panels. And there's going to be a lot of guests way bigger than ourselves who are going to be here. And yes, we're going to get a hang out with us. We're going to talk or chat. We're going to have a great old time.

Starting point is 00:01:27 Please, if you haven't gotten your tickets, go get your tickets. And oh, yeah, all proceeds go to the Los Angeles wildfire recovery efforts. So it's all band together for a good cause. Getting your ticket is going to be for a good cause. Hope to see you there, Saturday, Reject Nation. See you guys. Let's go. All right, guys, well, now that we have watched Reacher season three, episode one,

Starting point is 00:01:56 it's time to talk about it. we don't usually know for sure if we're going to put like two episode reactions back to back it kind of just depends on like what the vibe of it feels like after the first one and you're like all right let's let's just put one and two back to back but i thought this was so impressive i was hoping john would be willing to talk about it for just a few minutes before we hopped on episode i don't like to talk about things gee i don't like to expound or unpack or elaborate on if there's anything i know about you is that you're not much going on to the noggin there. That's what they say about John here. I'm your favorite hymnbo. No, John, please. What did you think of the opening scene? I loved the opening scene.

Starting point is 00:02:43 I thought that was really fun. It was a really fun way to do a prologue because it kept, it was like a little catamari or a snowball. It kept growing. And it's like the first scene alone was just him pulling up to the record store starting to, you know,

Starting point is 00:02:55 haggle with the guy and assess why he should buy these records. uh that was fun enough and that speaks to something that i always love about jack reacher which is the elements of sort of character wallpaper and and sort of the little charming moments especially because you know i am a lover of music uh yeah i don't know i like that thread and i like hearing him talk about music and stuff like that and so to put him in an element that is very much of like the interests of his character is just very fun and then you know you get that little tone setter then that immediately leads to a very cool you know chase and just vehicular stunt sequence uh which then then leads to this oh shit moment of like damn jack just murked a cop

Starting point is 00:03:38 which in the moment you know it seems like a very interesting prospect and you know too it flirts with the line because that's very real it's like i thought he pulled a gun like you know it's it's one of those things where i think especially because jack is so brilliant uh they they nicely wrote a line there where your brain goes, well, it feels like the heat of a moment. You're like, I guess I could see it, you know, and he's got the badge in his hand. But at the same time, part

Starting point is 00:04:04 of you's like, but Jack, that would Jack, I don't know, would Jack do that? And so like to have it be, your mind starts working. You're like, what if the cop's not really dead? Or, you know, what if, what if, but, you know, from there, then you go to him, you know, unpacking who this kid is

Starting point is 00:04:21 and the debate back and forth and him selling this What we later find out is selling this debate of like, why should I accept any help from you and all that stuff? Like as a as a prologue, it kept expanding, but as it expanded, I was like each of these pieces seems necessary to kind of set the scene for the whole season and then to cut to the title card and all that stuff. You get this really fun, yeah, ultimately like prologue chapter. What I thought was a prolog scene became a prolog chapter, which gives you what I feel like is a little bit of all the flavors. up front you get a little bit of a fun character thing you get some cool action that really shows that they threw down on the stunts and then you get the establishment of the mystery and the stakes and you know the fun mislead you know you see the whole plan and then you later on you know you go unpack

Starting point is 00:05:11 that and you see how we got here in the first place but yeah as like the the inciting incident of the season i thought it was really really fun and it brought me back to what i was hoping for because like season one felt like a not you know felt very literary but as like a cool limited series like movie-esque you know piece of entertainment that was also kind of rich and you could chew on it season two felt kind of more like the pg 13 version and this i was sort of like struck with like oh that's right this is like an r-rated show though like not that it's like incredibly explicit but you know like they swear and you might see something gruesome and uh yeah this just had again the flavor and the tone like i i think we both agree like i like season two but this has me excited

Starting point is 00:05:54 like this is the flavor or at least this is more akin to the flavor that i loved the first time around and i feel like they've smartly seemingly observed what worked then what worked in season two and now i'm just hooked for what's to come here in season three yeah um how are you feeling about it fellow rejects the other day uh we had one of those days where everything just piled all at once Our back studio flooded. It actually flooded. And in that same exact time frame, we got hit with a bunch of copyright claims. Suddenly, in just one day, due to everything, I just naturally became stressed about finances. This is a real thing that happened.

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Starting point is 00:08:09 Review port, disclosure is acorns. Thank you. I mean it. I'm feeling like we're back. I'm feeling that Jack is back. get on back and I know that like season two is is really some people really love it some people like it and I did see more people come out who had similar like opinions as us where it was like it was okay you know like a couple of a couple of really ones that really like we loved and then

Starting point is 00:08:33 there were but a lot of it's just not season one yeah and this doesn't feel exactly like season one by any stretch um other than some like the other season one's very much like a southern gothic yeah um type of vibe right and this is main yeah yeah you're in new england now kid yeah yeah but they the there's there's so much that i thought as you were saying i i have to be in the habit of i keep forgetting to bring a notepad guys but i am so terrible that i'm the kind of listener that when someone's talking i'll get like a thought a sentence that pops in my head i'm like oh don't forget that and i pay attention and i forget it um because i don't want to like not pay attention so i just like write down the quick set a quick like three words so i'm like no that's the thought

Starting point is 00:09:13 that I had and I have a terrible habit of forgetting so trying to be better about just taking notes and yeah with that opening scene uh at the at the record store it's so smart because it's playing on what you know about Jack Reacher as much as this

Starting point is 00:09:29 thing feels like it could be a pilot um it it that's opening scene would work whether or not you've seen Jack Reacher before yeah but because you have and you know the character like all right this is just another the day in the life of Jack Reacher and oh my god

Starting point is 00:09:45 he's someone's in the wrong place at the wrong time there's a crime and he's going to go save the day he's going to be a hero just like that opening scene in season two yeah you know so it's really playing on that and having fun with the audience and it's the moment the cop get shot where you're like oh what's the shit

Starting point is 00:10:01 just went down yeah and my mind started racing of like is Jack getting like old what's is going to be of him in this career of the show like how's he going to handle this can he morally But my mind just started racing with thoughts of what it's going to do to Jack Reacher

Starting point is 00:10:17 and the commitment to that leading all the way to the phone call was like I'm in I was so cool we were both convinced this was all real and I loved being fooled. They had to fool the people

Starting point is 00:10:35 in the show and I love that they fooled the audience. I'm sure there's people who watched who had some doubt it just stuck around for so long and it was just in that one mood that I had no doubts that this was the actual plot of the story. So I love that they can they throw you like and I love that plot set up that he goes on. But there's something about how freaking clever it is. You're like I don't even care. It's not the main it's still like part of the main plot but I love the twist on it. It's interesting.

Starting point is 00:11:05 This is a demonstration to me about when you mess with screenplay structure in a way that truly works. A lot of people try to do the Tarantino without really knowing why it's cool. And this is a case of what it's really cool. He's like reservoir dog did it. You know, it really was. It's like he's Mr. Orange in the situation. That's

Starting point is 00:11:26 how they sell the plan is by showing it to you without any of that context. And then we go plan the plan and then we cut that off. Right before the plan is supposed to take place. And we've already seen it. And the fact that it like goes with the title of Reacher the title card at that exact

Starting point is 00:11:42 moment you're like that's fucking jack reacher baby that's who he is one so cool it's so cool yeah and it does play on it because you're sitting and you're what i love that moment of recontextualization because he's watching out the window and you're like of course he's doing his jack reacher observer thing and then you realize later on you're like oh no he's literally watching the beats yeah for his cue you know and uh yeah like as much as i think it's interesting because it's a strong hook and that's you run the risk with a hook like that because it's like if you hook out if you you know make it some kind of reveal or a switcher room maybe somebody was like on board for like well I want to see jack reacher having just murk this cop and having to be on the run but I feel like that's

Starting point is 00:12:24 that was one of those things where at first I was like man that's a really interesting pickle for him to land in but also if I know this guy I feel like he would like go turn himself in or something you know and so like yeah it wrote this interesting line where I was like curious about what his character was doing and then you come to find like yeah okay this is the right amount of like oh no this is all like part of the plan but just so many details alive in the plan then come in to play in the later parts of the episode and uh yeah like it was just a very striking gripping way to pull us into what actually is the mystery which is more in line with you know the kind of thing that would be happening in a jack reacher story as far as i know them to be but they still carry

Starting point is 00:13:07 on the tension really well yeah like that they explain in detail the whole plan that went down they break down a lot of the why i think what this really has is a lot of personality everyone the environments feel alive the characters are are very distinct from one another uh i think the strengths of what the show does so well is on blast here it has more of that sense of like because i've been curious about what it is between seasons one and two and i think this has again as season one did and own way this feels more observant of the characters rather than that the characters are moving on the beats of a story or something like that so like even like when they're all in the diner and

Starting point is 00:13:47 the one guy's like eating food like the way that um i'm gonna learn everyone's names but you know like the woman like kind of slacks him off for eating he's like what i was i was getting the copies and then she kind of like steps on his line she cuts him off like there's so many great little lived in alive yeah it feels alive or when the when jack is mouthing off at this head of security as he leaves him in the room for the night what if I don't like that we'll call the cops you know like there's so many great elements that really feel like

Starting point is 00:14:13 actors got to do the scene work but also the camera is like so well composed and stuff like it's it has yeah that thing where you feel like you're kind of reading a book and yes some of that is because there are just a lot of dense elements of like who's this guy and what does he do and how does that bring you into this situation

Starting point is 00:14:29 and me into the situation I feel like he really knows how to play he's found they put him up with characters where he can have like a solid quippy back and forth with yeah and be able to even even for the i already forgot her name the main cop woman whatever her name is even like her her strength in the way she carries herself and how she has her dialogue with jack she's able to give it back to him you know so they're able to really feed off of each other so well and both flavors feel really natural between the two of them like yeah props to her and him because like you know like

Starting point is 00:15:05 He's very charismatic and stuff like that, but like the Russian roulette scene seemed very much like, oh, this is kind of like a, you got to kind of work up an acting froth to do that. And she as well had, it's a type of character. And so like you really got to get an actor who can absolutely own both the accent, but also just the stature. Well, like, there was like that great moment that there's this one little moment in their dialogue exchange that just feels so human from her in a way that doesn't draw attention to it. itself. It's when he reaches like if he's with that if she's with that Quinn guy she's probably dead. She's like what do you mean? Why would you tell me something like that? She just became so human in that moment once she's talking about something vulnerable because you're right. It actually feels like actors truly like acting and that's the part of it that I love is on the surface it's like here's the mission but there's a lot of emotional drive underneath it all. Yeah. yeah which is like which is cool and it's like you can be dizzying sometimes with the intricate details of yeah the pieces on the board and i think that there is you know like stuff like this begs to be rewatched partly for that and i think you know you're caught up in all that stuff and i feel like as long as you're catching enough of the context you can kind of let it like that's the thing is like without those character elements and those little lived in things it might be harder to just vibe with it you know like sometimes sometimes i think as a viewer

Starting point is 00:16:33 and especially in a visual medium like this, and especially with so many creative elements to both of the cinematography and the musical landscape and the sounds and all that. Like, you know, sometimes you're caught up in it and you're, you can't always just like stop and rewind. You guys can't. But yeah, I think there's,

Starting point is 00:16:49 when the emotional flavors are hitting and the setting feels tangible, then I think those details that do get dense are also just carried along with that in a more easy to grasp and vibe with way. you know and yeah I don't know this this has again that nicely sort of like it's got those clever you know sort of cheeky earmarks like there's clearly fun happening behind the camera here but it's like just the right amount of restraint to where like the tension so far is like really

Starting point is 00:17:21 kick in as well and I really believe that this little unit this unlikely sort of like I don't want to work with you guys you know you got nothing to offer me well we got a couple things you know that that overlap and I believe them coming up with this plan together. Yeah. I thought was nice. She's like, I've got a plan. And then you see Jack adding to the plan and they're all kind of, yeah, like this little.

Starting point is 00:17:42 I feel like real people. Yeah, exactly. Which is really cool. Like, yeah. Yeah. That was good. And then the action itself is amazing. That's what you need.

Starting point is 00:17:51 The practical stunts. The car chases the way beyond it just looking cool. It's grounded so much in that tension where you're like first you're in a shootout versus car crash then a shootout then we got to get away and then and then the dialogue becomes like action when you're discussing like no you got to get away from me kid those those types of backs and forth like jazz man it's like music the way the way this episode flowed watching him scale down the house scale down the house exactly he was really doing a lot of that at least i don't know which like other ones but it looked like he was doing most of it didn't look like a cg bobblehead on a stuntman

Starting point is 00:18:26 to make it real actually provides stakes is that's one thing with jack reacher that you can run into He was like, I don't really feel like there's much daint. This guy's in danger at all. And you can't really hurt him too much. So to see, to put you in that, even, even though it's an allusion in the, in the first, in the prologue, it still gets you with the feelings of like, oh, damn, Jack's really in trouble this time. Yeah. And that kind of feeling carries over because you see how apprehensive and nervous he is about having to jump into this mission. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:19:00 And now he's trapped with all these guys and, you know, he's got to maintain this cover. And we know that he's capable of that, but also he's just in a snake dead. Yeah. And the history with all the other people or the one guy who he saw across the street. Yeah. The Asian American guy. Asian American man. Quinn.

Starting point is 00:19:17 Quinn. Joseph Quinn. It's that little line of how it's like how he's being discreet and building the mystery about what really went down with this guy when he says he's the most dangerous dude I've ever met. I believe him in that moment. when he says that it sounds like that so the way they're building it up without relying on like music cues or anything that feels like cheesy is really impressive like it feels like filmmaking you know um so yeah i'm really impressed with it so far it sounds like you are we got to keep watching because there's like three of these right um so yeah guys thanks so much for being here uh would you think

Starting point is 00:19:52 about jack reader season three episode one really make any reach your rhymes reach your name jokes you know we're we're just as they come taking them as they come it's just so good it made me serious it made me so serious yeah that's how good it is yeah i'm serious now you're serious correct yeah yeah this is the next tyler perry movie this is jerry of a serious reach diary of a serious reacher there you go yeah anyway thanks so much guys bye riley peterson riley here's how this is going to work riley i'm going to guess with name Riley means. John's going to guess

Starting point is 00:20:32 the name Riley means whoever is closest wins the round. Very simple. Riley. Riley. I'm going to guess Empath. Oh, okay. I'm going to guess spry and energetic. Rebasing this off any characters named Riley.

Starting point is 00:20:50 Are you basing off the character from inside? Yeah, but I don't know why I went with empathetic for that because I think the movie's an empathy source was Riley. Anyway. Okay, let's go. Hitting enter. Riley has multiple meanings and origins, including woods, clearing, and courageous. Oh, dang.

Starting point is 00:21:06 What did you guess? I guessed. What did I guess? Energetic and, like, lively, I think. So, I guess you're closer. Not quite, but valiant. You're also valiant. That's fun. It's a gender neutral name, often used for both boys and girls

Starting point is 00:21:22 and pets. The name is popular in many English-speaking countries, which tracks. I think you're definitely close. If we had to associate a word to that it would be yours for sure you know uh i'm glad to have won your name and uh thank you for contributing to my overall massively impressive score

The Reel Rejects - REACHER SEASON 3 Episode 1 REVIEW!! SO F***ING GOOD!!

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