Starring: Alan Ritchson, Sonya Cassidy, Maria Sten, Anthony Michael Hall, Brian Tee, Johnny Berchtold, Olivier Richters
Reacher's season three is the first season in which Reacher (Ritchson) doesn't have all the answers and isn't the biggest or the baddest dude on the block. It's refreshing to see Reacher sweat, something we didn't see in the first two seasons. This is the first season which maintains our interest throughout, and the villains are thoroughly scary. Granted, the concluding, inevitable fight between Reacher and the towering bodyguard Pauli (Richters) continues long past either person would be able to remain conscious, but we were waiting for it and it delivered.
In the beginning of season three, Reacher is passing through a small New England town when he sees a young man named Richard (Berchtold) being kidnapped. Reacher thwarts the crime and drives the scared kid home to his grateful father Zachary (Hall), who offers Reacher a job as his bodyguard after a thorough background search. Zachary lives in a lush mansion with plenty of acreage, and is said to be a carpet dealer, but we soon learn he also deals in guns under the thumb of the vicious Quinn (Tee). Reacher has a past with Quinn and assumed he killed him years ago, but this isn't the case. Reacher seeks vengeance against Quinn while trying to assist DEA agent Susan Duffy (Cassidy) in finding her informant who was kidnapped by Quinn.
How season three differs from previous Reacher seasons is how we sense Reacher is in danger and not always in control. Ritchson's season three Reacher is vulnerable and more human than the previous seasons' iterations. The human stakes are higher this season than in previous ones. Anthony Michael Hall also gives us multi-faceted dimensions as a gun runner who is also a loving father. He's someone we can sympathize with to an extent, while the villains are cold, nasty, and unsympathetic. This is the best season of Reacher by far. Now that we know how well it can done, I hope season four builds on it.
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