Over the course of two seasons, the action series Reacher on the Amazon Prime streaming service has lured in viewers for its vigorous action, surprising storylines, and vigilante vision of the world. Based on a popular and sprawling series of novels by Lee Child, the show stars Alan Ritchson as the eponymous Jack Reacher, a one-time U.S. Army Military Police Corps major who, since forsaking his official duties, has come to embrace itinerancy. Physically rootless but not morally unmoored, Reacher spends his days as a kind of roving private investigator and administrator of justice. In Child’s conception, Reacher tries to be of service in investigations, but he does so on a strictly freelance basis and frequently, like many a traditional genre detective, bypasses the laws of the land.
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