Reacher S3 Review – An Action-Packed, Intense, Dramatic Thriller

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Category: Streaming, Cable

Published on Thursday, 20 February 2025 12:23

Written by Janet Walker

Reacher, from Prime, returns to the screen with Season Three as the former military special investigator so traumatized by duty, he has dropped off the grid, continues to stumble into corruption and fight the good fight.

Season Three begins with Reacher, played by Alan Ritchson, walking into a vinyl store in an unknown Massachusetts college town. He hears the gunshots. He steps outside and sees a kidnapping in progress. He rescues Richard Beck, played by Johnny Berchtold, and in the process kills the bodyguard John Cooper, played by Ronnie Rowe, and takes out a local sheriff deputy, Guillermo Villanueva, played by Roberto Montesinos.

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As Reacher is fleeing the scene, we realize he is in a bad spot, and this good deed will come back to haunt him. So, he attempts to ditch the kid, who has made it clear, he is wealthy, and his dad can help him, even in this situation. So, Reacher takes him back to his palatial estate on the water.

Guarding the estate is Paulie, played by Olivier Richters, a supersized, hulk of a man, who makes Reacher look underdeveloped. In the gate house, a 50-caliber automatic rifle sits on a tripod, locked and loaded. Richard explains to Reacher that Paulie is dangerous, and don't antagonize him.

As Reacher saved Richard's life, his dad, Rug store magnet, Zachary Beck, played by Anthony Michael Hall, offers him a job. When Reacher clears the security test, he is given a room in the house. Once he is alone, he removes the heel from his boot, takes out a cell phone, and makes a call. We hear him say, "I'm in."

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After this we meet Susan Duffy, played by Sonya Cassidy, a seasoned investigator, who just got burned by a bad ruling that allowed a year's worth of surveillance to be ruled inadmissible, Guillermo and Steven Eliot, played by Daniel David Stewart, a rookie, on his first undercover case.

Susan wrangles Reacher into helping her after he sees a ghost from his past, Quinn, played by Brian Tee. Once Reacher has his team back in Arlington run the plates, his need to find Quinn, and the state cops missions intersect. So, Susan stages a kidnapping, and holds the bodyguard, until they can gain access to Becker's home and find Susan's C.I., who she sent in and has now gone missing.

Once Reacher is inside the home, his first mission is to find the C.I., and once he begins to look around, he finds clues that she has been at the home. But she is nowhere to be found. Beck put him to work, driving the trucks to the port. And as everyone believes he is importing more than luxury, high-end, carpets, the trucks come up clean.

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Reacher decides to search the warehouse, and Angel Doll, played by Manuel Rodriguez-Saenz, begins to question Reacher. Something is off about him, and Reacher ends the conversation. So, he calls Susan, and they begin to search for the C.I., and still nothing.

Across the next couple of episodes, Reacher recounts the story of how he knows Quinn, and calls in Neagley, played by Maria Sten, to run the background checks. Her traces alert Beck's security team and places her in extreme danger.

The blueprint of each season of Reacher is similar, a lone soul he travels from place to place limitedly off the grid, and along the way he meets those who serve the people, and those who abuse the people. In Reacher, the lawless are not the ones who dictate to the law the boundaries of the system. Season 3 is no different, pulled unwittingly into another jurisdictions desperate desire to dismantle a criminal enterprise, Reacher, who is unable to turn his back on justice, risks his own safety to fight the good fight.

Told over eight episodes, Reacher S3 is an action-packed, gripping, dramatic adventure filled with gritty, intense performances, and extreme fight scenes. Binge worthy, Reacher S3 is streaming on Prime. See it.

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Country: U.S.

Language: English.

Runtime: 8 episodes/50 minutes per.

Director: Sam Hill.

Executive Producer: Lee Child, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Don Granger, Marcy Ross, Nick Santora, Scott Sullivan, Paula Wagner, Matt Thunell, Mick Bentancourt, Alan Ritchson.

Producer: Agatha Warren, Penny Cox, Aadrita Mukerji.

Writers: Lee Child, Cait Duffy, Michael Gutierrez, Lillian L. Wang, Nora Jobling, Penny Cox.

Cast: Alan Ritchson, Maria Sten, Sonya Cassidy, Johnny Berchtold, Roberto Montesinos, Olivier Richters, Brian Tee, Anthony Michael Hall, David Michael Stewart, Caitlin McNerney, Ronnie Rowe, Donald Sales, Brendon Fletcher, Greg Bryk, Mariah Robinson, Anousha Alamian, Alekks Paunovic, Manuel Rodriguez-Saenz, Mark Taylor, Aury Barnett, Milton Barnes, Owen Roth, Nicky Guadagni, Sean James Lee, Joshua Obra, Khalid Karim, Ankit Kumar, Victor Ertmanis, Drew Nelson, Andreas Apergis, Stephen Bogaert, Robert Bazzocchi, Mick Bentancourt, Farhang Ghajar, Michael Rhoades, Sebastian MacLean, Johnathan Sousa, Brandon Knox, Brrendan Carmodu, Garfield Andrews.

Janet Walker is the publisher, founder, and sole owner of Haute-Lifestyle.com. A graduate of New York University, she has been covering international news through the Beltway Insider, a weekly review of the nation's top stories, for more than a decade.  A general beat writer/reporter and entertainment/film critic, she is also an accomplished news/investigative news/crime reporter and submitted for Pulitzer Prize consideration "Cops Conspire to Deep Six Sex Assaults" in the Breaking News Category and was persuaded to withdraw the submission. Ms. Walker has completed five screenplays, "The Six Sides of Truth," "The Assassins of Fifth Avenue," "The Wednesday Killer," "The Manhattan Project," and the sci-fi thriller "Project 13: The Last Day." She is completing the non-fiction narrative, "Unholy Alliances: A True Crime Story," which is expected to be released in early 2025. She is a member of the Los Angeles Press Club, the National Writers Union, and a former member of the International Federation of Journalists.