Reacher

This is probably what fans of Lee Child’s creation have been waiting for since the series of books started. Reacher the new Amazon Prime television series was always going to rest or fall on the casting of the right leading man who fits the physical bill of the title character. For the uninitiated, Jack Reacher – our ex-military police, lone-wolf hero man mountain, walks the length of America where trouble seems to find him wherever he stops. Alan Ritchson delivers in the first five minutes of the opener. Based on the first book of the series 'The Killing Floor.' Reacher visits a small town, and is mistakenly arrested, and incarcerated. From then on, he outthinks and outfights everyone that dares to cross his path, and protects, those in need along the way. But stopping every once in a while to deliver an analytical dialogue to those five steps behind him. Like much in the style of muscle-bound Sherlock holmes. Ritchson delivers a performance warm enough so that you always tend to sympathise with him, no matter how brutal he has to get. The series from this first episode delivers exactly what the successful series of Child's book's promised in your head. Which only bodes very well for the rest of the series.