The Reel Rejects - REACHER SEASON 3x07 Breakdown & Review!!!

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Starting point is 00:01:05 them in just a bit yeah i'm not out of it let's go despite being predictable i love the dove tape i like what it still does for the characters you know and that's how you earn a trope a thousand percent that's a year unpredictability because you're surprised by what it's doing with the emotional affect and hey prepper they're the ones who edited down these highlights thank you guys so much for doing that really appreciate the hard work you guys put in gia also we are putting our reviews on apple and spotify if you're listening i just watch reach your season three episode seven the penultimate to this amazing season season to television um I'm trying to mix it up.

Starting point is 00:02:01 I want to mix it up because I hate anything. I just feeling too routine. Okay. Normally it's like, what do you think, John? Then you monologue for a few minutes, and I monologue, and then there's a bit of a dialogue. A bit of a badge. But I honestly don't know how to do anything else right now.

Starting point is 00:02:18 Have you seen L.A. story with Steve Martin? I have not seen L.A. story with Steve Martin. What did you think of the L.A. part? It was cool. It was nice. It was fun to see them in L. L.A. I mean, you know, I am always at least going to want an L.A. episode. An L.A. episode. Or, hey, I mean, do an L.A. season. Like, even I could see there being some fun potential there, or at least a season that takes place in California, get some L.A. Yeah. I mean, like, for a show that often does a nice job of putting you in the place and making the place some sort of, you know, scenic character. You know, it was L.A., but it was very brief, so it was fine. You know, it's a, it's, it's perhaps the only thing about the episode where I was like,

Starting point is 00:03:01 oh, I wanted some more like L.A. Reacher flavor, you know, it was cool to see them eat a taco, but like, and it's not why we're here, but one of the charms that, you know, certainly hooked me about the show was the fact that, and I feel like season one is really the season that has done this and the other two haven't so much is like Reacher loves music and Reacher at least has some opinions about food.

Starting point is 00:03:27 So, like, I feel like those are often. kind of fun things you could do if you were going to L.A. in a reacher situation that wasn't just to talk to one guy and, you know, go to one art gallery and then we're headed back, you know. But, yeah, it was all right. How did you feel about the L.A.? I don't feel like... It's weird to call the episode L.A. story. It's weird to call L.A. story when they're there for like 15 minutes. Yeah. They're not really in L.A. and it's not like, it doesn't thematically seem like anything. in that part of the episode is all that important to like the themes nor did it feel like it needed

Starting point is 00:04:07 to be in l.A yeah it's like it's like 15 minutes so it's 15 minutes of story they drive over to there and they fly doesn't feel like they really travel to there doesn't really feel like they traveled back yeah but maybe part of it was like the la la land side of it where that's where their hookup happens because they're in the motel yeah and that's where it's a very like like Los Angeles type of hotel. Yeah. And then they make it love. Because that rooftop, I'm pretty sure it's the W.

Starting point is 00:04:36 I'm pretty sure that's the, I've been to the W before, like once. Yeah. And so I recognize that. It's definitely looks like a, like, L.A. rooftop. Sure. So I feel like they still shot it in L.A. I don't know where they, I imagine they shoot the show on location or in Canada. But, yeah, beyond that, that was a little bit, I don't think, I think we only give her shit,

Starting point is 00:05:00 because we live in L.A., sure. But if we didn't live in L.A., I don't feel like we were in. But what's thought into the fact that it's called L.A. story. And, ooh, our character we love is going to the city that we know and grew up in. Yeah, yeah. But this wasn't like a travelogue. I feel like the most you see of the city is when they're watching that one shot on the screen of, like,

Starting point is 00:05:21 you're going down Santa Monica Boulevard or whatever. Yeah. And then you go to Chicago and, like, that scene was very striking. And I almost feel like we spent more time there, even though we didn't spend as much time there i like the heart of of duffy and reacher yeah obviously they would hook up that's what you got to do with the female lead they're like a bond girl but a bond girl that earns their hookup yeah a bond girl with with with yeah full own autonomy yeah like the girl in the second season they already have a history yeah and they're rekindling some history where

Starting point is 00:05:57 with Roscoe and Duffy I don't even remember the second season girls from Roscoe Dixon Dixon Roxy with Roscoe and Roscoe and uh Roski with Roscoe and Duffy you they really earned their again something that is obviously

Starting point is 00:06:16 going to happen but when you get there it can't feel like yeah like they have to because they have to it doesn't feel like oh they're both hot or you're just in the two character positions it feels like it always happens when reachers like oh you can keep up with me and we share a similar like observational tenacity that's like god approving yeah it's like zeus with as many women yeah yeah exactly worthy of my zeus you are on my level well beyond that you know like a lot of times to create emotional

Starting point is 00:06:50 connections with characters they usually do the thing where girl might be a little bit more vulnerable at certain times and then eventually you know usually i think they've did it in season one where uh jack reacher would then get very vulnerable suddenly he's like a closed off book and then one day that book really opens he's going to give you a whole chapter of his life and really tell you what happened on the inside they don't really do a moment like that where he gets very vulnerable and then she's like looking at him as he laments a pain from his past or something it was really you know like they've already been connected in a way where their skill sets align and then in that moment I love how it was like what changed your mind about this and he's just like very direct about it of like because you because of it like because her priority it's not his priority yeah um it's like really good romantic line work that felt naturally earned in a non cliche way even like the directness of her and like all right i'm gonna just take on my shirt let's go for this yeah all right it's it's different it's a different type of exercise

Starting point is 00:07:55 that aligns with how these characters would go into bed together yeah i see the person that you are and now i've opened to that yeah so i love that a lot um again the the consistency with quinn what is uh anthony michael hall's character back back um with quinn as this terrifying guy he is terrifying he's really really scary and you know he's smart it is a little bit annoying that they didn't even bother to question that it was a bait trap because it seems so obviously like a bait trap. Yeah. And I think Reacher would have questioned it, like him as a character would have done it. It does ding a point for me. As much as I want to just be like, yes, they do earn a lot and there's a thousand million great things in this episode that I can keep

Starting point is 00:08:47 pointing out. And I will. We will. I do think it does dial down a couple points for me, because of I think Reacher would have drawn this conclusion or at least put it out there and you could argue blinded by so close to getting that meat that Quinn meet and we've come this far and there's a lot of problems

Starting point is 00:09:08 I'm like I don't know it's Reacher still would have been able to I think the more heated something gets the more Reacher would anticipate something yeah and the more he would feel the need to like double check everything or yeah it's it's like the fact that we don't even come up with the contingency of like what if the information is bad or what if

Starting point is 00:09:27 Beck is I think it's a very fair assumption to be like he might not as much as she's like well you better make it your business I'm like that might be impossible you know and I feel like they should have anticipated that and also the thought that crossed my mind was when he gets on the phone with Neely I'm like you two could if she's tailing them I can again it's that thing of like I can see how maybe you're just all caught up in so much that you can't get on the phone right away but it seems like she could have at least like updated him on where they're going and this could have

Starting point is 00:09:59 possibly been caught before everyone's there and everyone's like doing the operation so it feels yeah it's weird that she only learned that information right then and there yeah and that's one of the few things that feels more like a trope or a plot

Starting point is 00:10:15 mechanic of like well we need the surprise of like that's a less successful use of trope here where it's yeah it's like we need the shoe dropping and that's feeling in your stomach dropping of like oh no they're in the wrong we're digging in the wrong place um but yeah it's it's it's it is a bummer to for this show and again yeah in an episode there's otherwise so great to be like oh i feel like you you you always want to have that feeling by the end of it like oh they were a step ahead of me even though i thought i was a step ahead of them and in this case i think we

Starting point is 00:10:46 were just a step ahead of yeah and it didn't like it's the drama happening around it all is good it's like you said yeah it's like what it does for the characters is good except for the part where you go i feel like reacher and neely would have had a better system of ruling out the possibility of this kind of debacle yeah because in terms of what they do for the characters i love love love the divide it creates for duffy and reacher because it's a very strong argument it's a really compelling debate of we go to the aft because we're we have to think bigger than our own emotions we have to think bigger than our own personal desires and we have to think about saving this individual and this was something that we that you knew would be a line that

Starting point is 00:11:31 maybe one day we would have to cross um and reacher again being like deceitful towards a woman towards people he really cares about and like how she calls it out like reach her semantics yeah you know in order to mess around like it's a really it's really good writing and i love the writing on duffy too like how they manage to keep her home he very very human all the time yeah like something as little as when she's with the a ft and they say you're just floating and she's like float like in the middle of this heat are you floating and then he explains it you know like I love how she had to have that to be explained it too yeah yeah yeah yeah she has a feeling about it and then we go back to you know the business at hand or

Starting point is 00:12:08 whatever yeah like that it's there's so much attention to detail in the characters that is so well done that when something like this happens it's more bothersome because of how great this show has been particularly this season at its insane attention to detail and the character writing and dialogue and the responses the reactions everything all around that you would want in making a fully three-dimensional character that when you're in the audience seat going i feel like i know these guys well enough to know they would have thought about this that it's kind of uh it's a little it's a little bit bothersome but uh perhaps i'm just letting it they didn't let it out so much during the reaction so maybe it's just like kind of

Starting point is 00:12:50 overshadowing my brain a little bit because overall the actual experience of itself like even the final few moments leading into the predictable twist is so cool to me of of the tension of that argument that they're having with each other of the presence of the aft like the head of the aft i thought he was a really strong actor the way he commands a room like the two acts who guest star roles that um personally thought were very strong i mean the the buyer guy or whatever he was good but the um the ones who i thought really made an impact in terms of oh i really feel like they they have a whole history with these characters is when neely confronts that one guy outside of his home love what they're doing when really like neely on her own is totally different than

Starting point is 00:13:33 neelie with people yeah you're a scary dangerous woman yeah right you're so cool calm and collected and in control and just yeah you're so you threaten people with like crazy like you're a violent person you know yeah i'm glad you're not an evil Like, you don't have evil motivations. Yeah, that would be bad. Rejignation, fun fact. Fantasy football is now a part of my life. Why? Because my wife and her friends are obsessed with it.

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Starting point is 00:15:33 And I love this scene with her and Reacher when he when he does say the way I feel about, I say, I feel the same way about you. Like a lot of the characters were getting a lot more open. And of course, the massive highlight in terms of emotional stuff is that that scene when the when Beck does see the. on the present that they've been building up all season. I love that because it wasn't like that gift was introduced many episodes ago. Very early on in the Adventures of Reacher and Beck's

Starting point is 00:15:59 kid. And that baby back. There's been a lot to what will his response be towards this gun, you know, and to use it as a driving force into opening up the door of emotional repression and

Starting point is 00:16:15 being able to have a start of a resolution with your own son for diving back into being brought back to the childhood and letting that like brings them back so it starts unpacking everything everything it's like a well just coming out and to have them in the same scene the first scene you see of them together where he's got a lopped off ear now too i just thought was really great like a mood scene and they didn't rely on like music for that shit they just let actors act and let the camera roll and i thought that was like an incredibly good scene but ruined by predictability of an no that's an amazing scene well yeah right down to that

Starting point is 00:16:57 I didn't I realized you could easily reframe that scene so you're shooting it from both of their ear sides and they always kept it on their non ear sides just like always keep you in remembrance of like the shared trauma that these two have and yeah like there was a

Starting point is 00:17:13 that was a really lovely scene and it clued me into something that again not to keep always comparing the seasons to each other but also to keep comparing the seasons to each other like the one thing I had missed from season two with having Robert Patrick was like Robert Patrick's a really great actor I really love having him around I enjoyed watching him that season but again being in the same sort of cast of casting in terms of like oh this is one of your big main guest stars of the season this is your season arc guest star I feel like Anthony Michael Hall here got to have like a really satisfying acting emotional moment whereas like that's like something i wish not even in the same flavor it wouldn't have to be something this vulnerable but like i wished in season two like man we could get some like juicy thing for robert patrick in an acting sense and here it was really uh lovely to see that scene and to see the things that are like still kind of unspoken and to see the little like i think one thing

Starting point is 00:18:11 that's been really nice about this season is that they have from the very beginning laced in these hints at know the repression of their relationship and the strain of their relationship but the actual like you know the love that exists like it seems like they both care about and want to love each other and want like a good life for each other even with all this stuff like it doesn't seem like you know richard is like oh i hate you dad blame you for all this stuff fair sure you know and uh and yeah like i love the nuance of that and i love again the way that that kind of twists the sort of outset of like oh anthony michael hall's here he's going to be the big bad but he's he's not and I think they've done a nice job of taking a character who is like into some bad

Starting point is 00:18:55 business and who has you know made his bed as they say but also making him sort of sympathetic in a way where you're like damn dude like you know you only have yourself to blame for a lot of this but at the same time it does seem like you really just got the awful end of the luck stick when you found Quinn McCabe yeah you know you could have found any other guy who would have just been normal evil and not like this vindictive you know monster guy and uh yeah i thought that was lovely the scene with the uh teresa's grandma oh yeah yeah that's also really great another amazing powerful scene and uh and it's always just a joy actually a great one of history too that's just a little bit more um how would i say

Starting point is 00:19:36 it's more uh overtly historical in the dialogue yeah whereas what i was particularly crediting for the other actors was it's just like the immediacy of this one scene yeah But you could feel like a whole background to them. That's not too discredit or knock any rounding points down for the elderly actress. But she was great, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I mean, like, the function of that, because it's like, you know, digging into Cole for Reacher and digging into what's happened here with Teresa is sort of the ways that Reacher and Duffy are getting close to each other and learning what each other cares about and why.

Starting point is 00:20:16 Yeah. And so, I don't know. Yeah. just to have that scene with her and to kind of see what we're fighting for beyond just saving this one girl's life, but it's also, yeah, it's, it's all the ripples and things like that. And too, just as a fan of art and acting and performance and stuff like that, it's always cool to see, like, an older actor get a chance to be in a scene where they're not just like a joke or, you know, boilerplate old lady or something like that. Grand, it's one scene. It's not like the lead of the show. But it didn't seem like a character that you would have to kind of, you know work on develop you know really get to stretch your legs a little bit you know for you know someone who's continuing to act you know through you know uh you know i don't know much about that actress

Starting point is 00:20:59 but yeah this is always cool when somebody you know who you wouldn't expect to see comes on and you're like damn this is a really great scene you know this is it's the same way like that that episode of cobra kai where like Miguel's grandma gets this like a couple of like really choice acting moments and you're like cool man like because they are really good at on this show and yeah like the guy on the porch who talks to neelie all these different characters who pop up like they they really do feel real and yeah like there is a history to their just presence you know beyond any contextual thing and so yeah like in an episode like this that does have a rare occasion where i'm like yeah i do have a gripe with this uh there's still so much

Starting point is 00:21:40 great work and that's you know i think what i value a bit more and and too you know sometimes i feel like you can we'll see i have to see how the finale goes because sometimes you can use an alleyup like this of like well i feel like that you know doesn't quite track with like who we know these characters to be and then maybe in the next episode there's some other piece of context where it's like reachers like i knew it would be like this and i decided to let it go down so that i can verify these people are here and then we could go over here and then i don't know or maybe not but but yeah i'm very excited uh also very excited to be right that it's going to all come down to the birthday maybe right about that you've probably had a long time ago that's uh

Starting point is 00:22:18 I'm going to hold this forever. That's cool. And they're going to get the Polly rematch. It's going to be an exciting episode. Wind death. Absolutely. Everything. Oh, no, man.

Starting point is 00:22:27 I hope he makes it. I hope he makes it. Teresa's going to be like a hood character being like, I'll suck her. Yeah, that's right. No, she's so up again. And even that, like, they've made so much. They have talked up these two characters, and especially Teresa, who we finally have a face for, who we've finally seen once, and who we know. above many other facts is a recovering addict who had finally turned it around so that scene where he

Starting point is 00:22:54 you know shoots her up is like really sad is like really sad in a way that's like this would already be the kind of thing you'd see in a crime thing and it's already icky but like yeah because the character stuff is hitting and because they're good at building up characters who you don't even get to see for a while that was like again very striking and like damn not only is it your physical livelihood at stake but it's like your chemical livelihood it's like so much more than just a kidnapping for sure for sure all right guys one more episode to go and we're done we're done with richer season three thank you guys so much for being on this journey with us like always you can support us at patreon and uh you can support us by getting a reject nation shop

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Starting point is 00:23:54 I really feel like you would be a great DEA agent here in the United States of America. That would be so cool if you had to... You know why he would. Oh, let's hear it. Take one guess. Mikhail being a DEA agent here in the United States. States of America. He'd model his entire approach. Oh, after 007. After James Bond.

Starting point is 00:24:18 And we're shouting you out on Reacher, Episode 7. A, oh, 307. I'm so close. So intended that. Dude, this was the time for you, and you would be a great Reacher, like, addition to the cast, honestly. He would be. He'd speak in his Swedish accent, you know? That would be cool. You know how to do a Swedish accent? Jack or Ritcher

Starting point is 00:24:41 I'm here to help you solve the crimes God wouldn't that be such a great character for season four I think it would be very cool honestly we've had a lot of different flavors of America in Ritcher and different accents we've got that annoying ass Boston woman yeah yeah

Starting point is 00:24:56 and that and that that other woman from the first season who had a southern accent yeah and then the second season woman yeah she was a woman too I think it's time we get a Sweden guy yeah I like God I like guys.

Starting point is 00:25:09 I like guys. I like guys and my guy stuff. You get girls out of here. Yeah. Shaken, not girls. You could be the gay love interest. Yeah, you can be the guy who's constantly seeing Jack Reacher in his underwear and having a little like... Holding to those sexual interests.

Starting point is 00:25:28 Yeah. And like just drinking it in. Then the Jack Reacher in there would be real. Oh, my God. You can bring it full circle. Mikhail. I'm excited for you to replace. all these women and be gay yes twofold victory here and and jack reecher saves the day

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The Reel Rejects - REACHER SEASON 3x07 Breakdown & Review!!!

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