Gone tomorrow by Lee child

The advantage of watching drama series based on books that you'ven't yet read but belongs to the author you follow being, that you can binge watch and read the story in parallel!! Jack Reacher's latest series on Amazon is based on Gone tomorrow by Lee child and what an experience it was to both watch and read in parallel!! This guy pours adrenaline in his pen while writing stories it seems!! Pure unadulterated action guaranteed and the casting coup of the decade would be to cast Alan Ritchson as Reacher. That man is born to play that role and brings all his bulk and muscle into action and in every stunt he performs which outweighs the dialogues. Right from the first episode, first scene where he encounters a woman, whom he suspects as suicide bomber, by mentally going through the 12 point checklist that has been drilled into military people like him and how she kills herself before he could save her forms the pulsating 30 minutes ever in a series premiere!! The book drags this section a bit and it shows how powerful the visual medium can be in conveying thoughts and emotions that take pages to deliver!! Reacher being Reacher, reaches out to figure out why the lady killed herself and it takes him on a thrill ride as always alongside the viewers and readers, where he gets arrested and assaulted almost every time across all the episodes and manages to escape each time by beating down his detractors, literally!!! He crosses path with the up and coming politician who is touted as the next president and going by conventional norms, fills in all the boxes for being the villain of the story and the twist being his heroic performance in saving several people, true to his role as former delta marine!! The two ladies who reach out to Reacher for help, tick all the boxes as abalai penn from Afghanistan only to end up as the most cruel and ruthless villains ever in the Reacher-verse, almost stabbing him to near death and since he is the titular character, by the immortality assigned to such characters carrying the name, Reacher always survives, as usual, despite being stabbed more times than a cloth getting stitched and the knife wounds are nothing considering he managed to outlive a direct shot to his gut in the previous season, with the muscle bulk stopping the bullet from reaching his heart, as confirmed by the doctor on scene!!

The latest season of Reacher sets the template for what action series must do and should avoid when it comes to making engaging screen plays that almost makes sense, despite being cushoined by an indestructible hero. A must watch for Ritchson's fans as well as Reacher's.