The Reel Rejects - REACHER SEASON 3 Episode 3 REVIEW!!

Episode Date: February 22, 2025

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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 they're going to hang out with us we're going to talk we're going to have a great old time please if you haven't gotten your tickets go get your tickets and oh yeah all proceeds go to the los angeles wildfire recovery effort So let'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. Ready, John?

I am quite running. Let's do it. Oh, yes, I love this season so much. Let's go. Let's go, Prodigy. Ladies and gentlemen, we just watched Reacher's Season 3. episode three weird

the episodes called number two bullet yeah um I gotta say if you watch the intro of the

YouTube video I admit it I was not in a good mood at all very angry I feel completely different

that really like altered my state of mind and emotion or just to punch out those knives you know yeah that was just damn

good television dude yeah This is a gripping. These past three episodes have been awesome. My favorite aspect of this genre of like under my favorite Decaprio performance is the Departed, which is an undercover role. I guess I like the undercover roles are exciting. They're kind of like an under-talked about art type, not an art type, but a role in these kind of investigative moves. Yeah, it's like sort of a trope role, but not really.

but one of the things that's so important is um when i think about walter white from breaking bad what makes his character so interesting as the seasons progress is you don't know if he's telling the truth or not yeah he's the best liar because when he tells a lie he tells it so convincingly and with so much emotion and you really believe him that's what makes him so scary now a lot of the time in shows and movies when characters are lying they kind of make it obvious they're lying and it's a thing i find really annoying in general when a character does that yeah and i think it was so smart to start this episode off in the perspective of not knowing that this is all an undercover ruse because when he is in the undercover spot sometimes i have to at least for my end i have to remind myself sometimes like oh yeah this is part of the role yeah like when he's feeling like stressed out about something or emotional about something and and the lines I like how the lines get blurred like we have it really seems like he does care for this this

call him a kid but he's an adult but the son he really does man he does care for the son you you know he does even stood up for him so that emotion there is definitely real when he wants to protect him but the lines get blurred in other areas but like when he's spouting off all these lies of what really went down you're like man he that's that's what he sounds like when he's not like it's so perfect uh yeah it's just really compelling television dude i'm so happy with with what we got here and i can't get over to the setting of you as that was the thing is like i remember that being um a criticism we did have of season two which is season one is southern gothic and it really does feel like i forget the exact state they're

in but it does i remember it like it feels like you're there yeah it feels hot and sticky and yeah you feel like you're, you know, in this isolated area kind of. And I remembered, and I can even more confidently say this now since I just went, I remembered feeling like, I don't really feel like we've stepped into New York City in this one. Even though they've shot it there. I don't really feel it for some reason, the environment. Less flavor of the location. But here in Maine, the way they use the exteriors really does.

Like the atmosphere of like the birds, the seagulls, you could feel the, ocean nearby and it creates a mood you know or even when they're out in the woods and and it's like that dark blue wolf man kind of lighting yeah yeah yeah totally it's so it's just executed so well where it does feel immersed and yeah it's a constant like ramp up to and it just keeps building you know i and i was kind of like okay first episode great well second episode okay second episode great what do you know oh my god third episode the story just gets more interesting you do have to get past the first episode of be like if it stays consistent you know because it's easy to get a good first episode and then like now it's really slow down

and take our time yeah build this back up no they they they have they they threw you into the plot and they have had their claws in us since and and yeah um i'll set you up for a very specific question then i started talking first rudely we were talking during the reaction about how this Julius guy most likely Quinn is the way they've been building him up and slowly changing the perception of the secondary villain the Beck guy fellow rejects the other day

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Dude, you know, some evil died tonight, I guess. And, you know, it's nice to know that he's not such a bet. Well, we'll see. It remains to be seen. But, yeah, it's interesting to note that you get an actor. It's interesting casting. And I feel like, you know, they've always had good casting. And, too, you know, it was cool to see Robert Patrick in the previous one.

And they obviously used his stature. But I feel like they used him for the type of role Robert Patrick would play, which was fun to watch. But here, I think what's interesting is they've taken Anthony Michael Hall, who has had, like, more who, as he is grown, older has gotten more heavy and more, you know, less nerd guy roles and more tough guy roles. And so you see him and you see what position he's in and you feel like, oh, yeah, this could be the guy who's like really in charge of things and who's like the big heavy and who you don't want to mess with. And yeah, like three episodes, but very naturally so far they have sort of drawn the full portrait as they fill in the details. And even like the way they handled his

relationship with Richard, you know, where like that first time. where he comes in and he's like sits on the bed and he's like trying to talk to him you know like in with this new context you can look back on that and be like oh yeah they probably really can't talk that like they probably it's probably dangerous for them to like be too personal here because like they're always under you know watchful eyes and everyone around them is like a train killer uh not to say that you know uh he doesn't uh beck you know father beck doesn't have some level of criminal uh prowess of his own but you know it certainly seems like they're both like in way over their heads and uh yeah it's it's drawn an interesting portrait of this because too you're like in his home base and it's felt like

oh man you're in the belly of the beast and now you're sort of like well it's tense around here but we've sort of cleared the board for jack to be he's able to kind of use home base as a home base for him for his operations here and now we can yet cast eyes outward to what this uh julius guy Quinn ostensibly is really doing and what the actual I'm very afraid of what they're actually doing you know especially because you've got this missing girl and I'm like god are they like trafficking people uh but you know yeah like it seems like whatever's going on real bad and uh yeah just I believe the the tension and the stakes of that and then to contrast this I think to make the game out of him you know budding up against these guys on his organization who are

capable and who are you know at least you know observant uh yeah like to pin him up against that put him in this you know tens position watch him sweat a little bit now he's got control like this feels like we're going to kick into the next act yeah in a very fun way well i think that's the part that i'm so impressed by it's sometimes shows or seasons of television or movie will focus so much on buildup and immediacy might not be as interesting because you're like all right but we're we're building it up but we're building up this is excelling at simultaneously building up whilst making the immediacy very interesting sure and that is not an easy job to do a lot of movies and shows fail at that but the because it's not about the end result we're just getting

to that build up payoff it's about the journey along the way and the journey along the way i love how problems just keep rising up it's not just like a bad guy shows up they got to punch them or some shit it's like they get real every time they're in a situation where it's like one step forward there's two steps back or people do show up and it's throwing a wrench in the problem like it's a lot of problem solving that has to go down like nothing is going according to plan yeah it's a lot of how to figure out the plan and figure this out and even the way they draw attention from what's going on back at the cabin with this random bodyguard who's being held in a chair and just trying to get his way out and like map his way out with his like he's like his only

little play this guy of being a prisoner by these d a rogue agents you know so i love what they're doing um on all fronts and everything is interesting everything gets a little turn of the screw like and they play off of so many of your expectations because yeah you see where that scene could go and you're like oh no kid don't you know and and yeah like they give the character's chances to surprise you and and man like the way that last part went down too i mean like we've seen reacher have to have kill people before but like you know it's very pronounced and cold yeah and sort of like man which fits the gloom of a main yeah it does yeah fits that a lot of people behind bodies is throwing a mountain to the water i wouldn't imagine and then i mean he's using all these crates and stuff but like yeah

HP lovecraft is like main a lot of people disappear a lot of spooky things happen yeah so it does and i do think there's a little bit of like it's not a horror show but there's horror aesthetics in terms of vibe. There's lurking, you know, maliciousness. I keep saying it looks like a Mike Flanagan show, and it does. You know? House, fall, the House of Reacher. The way the blue lighting and the blurs go, it looks very Flanaginny.

It looks like I'm watching Dr. Sleep again or something. You're watching flanograms. Yeah, something like that. Yeah, yeah. The kid's good, too. That relationship, again, could easily be another perfunctory by the numbers type of relationship. no they found like real nuances and I like the I like how complicated his relationship with his dad is and I like how the dad is multi-layer too he comes across very you know tough and an asshole but he's kind of weak

you know he's just yeah making sure that his operation runs because he's got to answer to somebody who's going to be real hard ass about it so he has to be a hard ass just to get by yeah but he doesn't protect his kid really fully no physically or emotionally the same way and it was an interesting shift in the power dynamic there. Yeah so I think that it was this is another amazing episode of television and truly this season's a banger

it's great it's been a lot of great TV huh? Yeah. Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man Kobe Kai Reacher. Invincible and Richer geez it just it doesn't stop there's so much good TV this year. Once you pop the fun don't stop all right guys what did

you think about this episode of Reacher do you think it might end up being your favorite season leave your thoughts down below and hey we'll talk with you all very very soon landin miller london here's how it's gonna work buddy i'm gonna guess for your name landin means john's gonna guess and whenever's closest wins the round okay all right landin i'm gonna guess um a protector of land good good i like it um i feel like this is a very modern name and origin so it comes from land long something network wires and uh dawn means that you're the head of a family uh landin here we go we're going to consult the a i's uh oh oh what do we got

the name land has multiple meanings including servant and or one who works or lives near a canal it also has a is the name of a dragon in greek mythology too there you go what did you guess I cast Land Wires and Being a Dawn or the head of a family, which it's definitely got nothing to do with whatever. I think a protector of land is closer to servant and works at a canal. Yes, exactly. Yeah, I would agree. You definitely killed Landon's name. Local Area Network is definitely not derived from local area network.

All right. I finally won one, Landon. Thanks. Landon, hell yeah. Oh my God, Landin, my dude, look, all right. I was editing this shoutout together, dropping in the graphic when I realized that we did your shoutout based on a typo.

If you see, I mean, you know, if you've watched to this point, I hope you have, it was Ladon that we got, you know, the first time around. So I'm going to read to you now what the real Landon means, all right? So let's do this thing real quick. The name Landon is English. origin and it means long hill or ridge i don't know why i'm so aggressive during this it was traditionally used as a surname but became a popular first name in the united states in the

1990s there we go i like to see it uh origin landin is a variant of the name langdon like robert langdon of the da vinci code also the name comes from an old english word uh the Old English words, long, or lang, which is a different version of long, and also dun, which is a word for hill. And in medieval times, people were often identified by their place or residence or occupations. So your ancestors must have lived on a long hill. Either way, we were wrong still, I think. I'll have to go back and check Greg's answer. But anyway, I hope you're doing well, buddy.

Thanks for being here. Thank you.