I thought the new season of Amazon Prime’s popular action series Reacher started off particularly poorly when it debuted a few weeks ago. But given how strong its first season was (), I stuck with it. It had moments in the middle that were fine but, not only did it not get much better, its penultimate episode this week was the worst of any in the series—just terrible. This episode was long-winded, and just stupid. I don’t tune in to Reacher for deep philosophical meaning, but man, has this show’s quality dropped off a cliff.
The show has gotten steadily worse since that aforementioned excellent debut season, but this one has been calamitous. And with a new spinoff coming, based on a secondary character from the same world, I’m afraid we’re in for a double-dose. I’ll watch the finale, but I’ve seen enough to call this one: .