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Luke Leonard

The Big Guy

6 May 2024

Season 2 of Amazon Prime's Reacher takes the protagonist in a different direction. Unlike season 1 where Reacher was alone, in season 2 he is reunited with his old Army unit, the 110th Special Investigations Unit that he recruited and commanded. Three former members are killed, Franz, Sanchez, and Orozco, Reacher and the remaining members, Neagley, O'Donnell, and Dixon, seek revenge on the persons and organization who killed them. In season 2, we learn Reacher isn't quite as much a loner as in season 1, but he has strong emotional ties to his unit and is loyal to a fault. The strength of the show is not how the bad guys are defeated, not that the good guys win, but the interactions between Reacher and his team. Numerous flashbacks of the time when the 110th was a unit shows the intense loyalty the team had for each other and the depths they will go to discover the killers and save their friends. But more than that, it shows how each member grew in the 110th and how that comradery shaped and influenced who they were and would become. While this season was about Reacher and his team uncovering the bad guys, the true strength of the show was the interaction and character development between the surviving members of the 110th and their true friendship and love for each other.