- Starring
- Alan Ritchson, Maria Sten, Malcolm Goodwin
- Creator
- Nick Santora
- Rating
- TV-MA
- Genre
- Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Release date
- Feb 20, 2025
- Where to watch
- Prime Video
Overall Score
Rating Overview
Rating Summary
Season 3 of Reacher follows Jack Reacher as he dives into the dark underworld of a powerful crime syndicate. Based on Lee Child’s novel “Persuader,” this season sees Reacher going undercover to rescue a DEA informant whose time is running out. Along the way, he confronts unfinished business from his past and faces off against formidable adversaries.
Reacher Review (S3:E1-3)
Looking slightly less roided out as well as less interested than in previous entries, Alan Ritchson once again dons the utilitarian t-shirt, jeans, and workboots of his most famous character to date in season three of Reacher.
The first season of the show was a breath of fresh air to many who had grown understandably disillusioned with the dull, assembly line models of brassy, unstoppable girl bosses being churned out by Hollywood as inadequate replacements for masculine men. Massive, tough, intelligent, and noble but not afraid of getting his hands dirty in the pursuit of justice, Jack Reacher was a paragon of aspirational masculinity- a much-needed oasis in a sea of costumed estrogen. That the program was well done was merely the creatine-flavored icing.
While still entertaining, season two suffered from a bloated cast (including some girl bosses) that left the show feeling far less focused than its progenitor.
Then, Alan Ritchson, sailing on the warm winds of goodwill from those who appreciated the series’s general lack of wokeness, had to open up his big dumb mouth and call Donald Trump a “rapist and a con man,” instantly alienating a massive chunk of his Reacher fanbase. Some thought that that was the end of what had been shaping up to be a beloved franchise. However, Amazon Studios was already halfway through filming season three at the time, and the show must go on. So you can imagine that a lot is resting on the quality of this season. Will it be good enough to overcome Ritchson’s roid rage? Probably not.
The first few episodes feel a little rushed and contrived, with a handful of competing plots. Few are particularly interesting, and with each vying for first place, the two catalyst plots get lost amongst the hurried narrative and uninspired and overproduced build-up to a promised physical confrontation between Reacher and an even larger character—so much so that I honestly forgot about them until one of the characters mentioned them again in the third episode.
What is good is that season three, this time based on the 7th book in the series, “Persuade,” has, in many ways, returned to basics. Once again, Reacher is a one-man dynamo with a trio who provides occasional support along the way. Fans will enjoy watching Reacher think on his feet to quickly avoid detection, even if his solutions aren’t exactly as smart as they may have been in past entries.
Regrettably, the supporting trio, led by the terribly miscast Sonya Cassidy, is rather dull, with little chemistry between themselves or with the big guy. Cassidy, who plays Agent Duffy, seems like a fine enough actress. However, few 110-lb women with girl-next-door good looks can successfully portray the tough-as-nails New England DEA team leader with a bad attitude written like a man archetype that has so poisoned American cinema and TV for decades now.
Still, it’s early in the season, with five more episodes to go, and there’s enough badassery and time for the showrunners to pull it all together.
WOKE REPORT
Wicked Waif of a Woman
- Sonya Cassidy, who plays New England DEA Agent Susan Duffy, is everything wrong with modern female characters. (I didn’t ding the Woke-O-Meter too hard because, so far, she’s in it very infrequently. It’s just that when she is in it, her character needs her @$$ kicked. Time will tell if the character gets worse.)
- She’s brassy and acts like a man.
- She’s written like a caricature of a man.
- She regularly barks out emasculating jibes at the men around her (i.e., she “jokes” like how a bunch of soy munching Left-coast weenies think men joke with one another).
- She’s constantly outsmarting the men around her and then putting them down.
- She’s not portrayed as being the physical match of men twice her size, but this only serves to exacerbate how unbelievable it is that neither of her subordinates has either decked her or become venomously resentful of her because she’s a woman and, therefore, “can’t” be hit no matter how deserving.
Because, of course, He Is
- The cast is comprised chiefly of Reacher, the villains, and three DEA agents, so there’s little room for diversity. However, some might find it noteworthy that virtually all of the villains (save two) are white and that the only white male DEA agent is a young and scrawny screw-up doofus who serves as little more than a verbal punching bag for the female DEA agent.
- I didn’t mark the Woke-O-Meter too much for this because he’s only on-screen three times for a few minutes, but it was a close thing. 89% is Woke-ish.
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James Carrick
James Carrick is a passionate film enthusiast with a degree in theater and philosophy. James approaches dramatic criticism from a philosophic foundation grounded in aesthetics and ethics, offering insight and analysis that reveals layers of cinematic narrative with a touch of irreverence and a dash of snark.
13 comments
_JB_
February 27, 2025 at 12:07 pm
It’s now nearly unwatchable, let’s be clear, it’s WOKE, period, impossible to ignore this.
pritish
February 27, 2025 at 5:20 pm
saw the latest episode 4,the dominique is changed to black woman,he was a white male,reacher is mostly seemed useless,that duffy always trying to say how important she is,even she do nothing but rely on reacher,this season is going mostly woke with girlbosses and unnecessary changes
dvaz
February 28, 2025 at 8:19 pm
Episode 4 went full rtard.
5’2 ugly black girl boss and of course the white dudes are all simping all over her.
I am glad she got killed off, don’t have to hear her shit acting again.
Darth vader
February 28, 2025 at 10:07 pm
I was watching episode 4 and reacher starts talking about dei, basically, and about how It might look if they went to the bar and that people would think she didn’t earn what she got because she is black and a woman, blah blah blah it’s all the same crap God I hate it, really sometimes wished I lived in another country where they didn’t have all this stupid woke crap.
NoSimp
March 1, 2025 at 7:33 pm
Already hard to watch given the Reacher actor’s douchebag hateful comments against conservatives. But ep. 4 … straight up accuses anyone who has a problem with DEI of being “assholes.” Umm, disliking being discriminated against across all sectors of society doesn’t make us assholes — YOU are the self-hating racist asshole Reacher.
James
March 19, 2025 at 6:11 am
Hahaha just came here because I knew incel racist would need a “safe space” to spew their mediocrity…once I heard Reacher talk about DEIA in regards to taking a drink with the SFC, I JUST KNEW the beta’s were going to come out and cry about it somewhere online lol…I love that you weak men exist so I can have something to laugh at. Anyway, I guess that is the point of this website so yes in regards to the acting and such, the supporting roles are pretty dull. Reacher trying to explain soft racism and misogyny to a black woman SFC is hilarious on its face because what could you teach a black woman at that rank about those said things that she wouldn’t already know about…would have been better to say no and have the beer there in the office. Anyway, took me a while to even click on the show because all it really does is make pansy frail white boys feel manly in their minds for a few minutes letting them forget how useless they’ve become in a ever changing world. lol, Its okay, death and oblivion is coming for us all, you won’t have to cry and feel inadequate forever lmao.
plrknb
March 24, 2025 at 5:20 pm
So what’s with the weird green tint in the video, even in a scene supposedly outdoors and in the afternoon?
James Carrick
March 24, 2025 at 5:43 pm
It’s used to signify a flashback.
John Truck
March 26, 2025 at 12:38 pm
one of the cars in this season is black. THATS WOKE
John H Handy
March 28, 2025 at 12:43 pm
I was interrupted while watching episode 6. Maybe the 1/2 way point. After answering the door I got mildly distracted making coffee and forgot about the show. Walked right past the TV on the way to something else. I hoped it would draw me in if I gave it time, but it failed and it is time to move on.
Petranic1
March 28, 2025 at 6:48 pm
The Duffy character was unlikeable all the way through the series. I knew her character wouldn’t die but I was still wanting it to happen. Annoying, did virtually nothing, demanded everyone pay attention to her needs. Frustrating. Reacher needed to ignore her completely. It was the weakest of the three. Hopefully back on track for Season 4 but stop the woke elements!
Rick K
March 29, 2025 at 5:31 pm
Struggled through the final episode of this season last night. And it was a struggle. First, we decided a drinking game was needed to keep watching. A drink every time Duffy said Theresa, but that could lead to fatal alcohol poisoning so we had to abandon that. Then came the revulsion at Duffy and Reacher having sex, with absolutely no sexual tension between the characters leading up to it. Weird, weird. I’m not the biggest Lee Childs fan but the story was incredibly antiseptic and boring. This series is sliding downhill.
BB
April 7, 2025 at 12:50 am
REACHER SEASON 3
“Tear Down Better”
I’ll admit I was a big fan of season 1&2 but then I heard the anabolic monkey share his political opinion. (We’ve all just been here waiting for Richtman to chime in with his political analysis of the Presidential Race)
Anyway I went into season 3 with a smirk. I know/knew Nicky Santora from our Vegas days and wanted to give season 3 a chance because he’s a good man.
Richtman just phoned in the entire season in my opinion. Looks distracted. Looks constipated. His timing was off. Looks more interested in posing and staying pumped than delivering a good performance.The story wasn’t as good because he’s on his own and I liked the unit working together much more. It was a little tiny bit more believable.
Look I know big guys like him, bigger even, I’m a big guy and it’s rare to find a big guy who’s dooshy. Richtman pulled that off in season 3. At this point, they would be better off, letting one of the 90 pound females take his role. After all, they expect us to believe Angelina Jolie was a Russian spy and a ruthless killer….
Thanks for giving me a place to vent my impression of season three.