You only need to see the first two minutes of the series, the sequence where the poser roughing up his girl backs down from Reacher, to realize this mess is a lost cause and it will be impossible for you or any remotely intelligent viewer to suspend disbelief for any sustained amount of time. Not because the scene itself is so implausible but because leading with such a contrived segment is a tell about the gratuitous testosterone laced way that the one-trick pony series intends to relentlessly manipulate its audience.
Of course the first few episodes do have the ancillary attraction of frequent close-ups of Willa Fitzgerald's face with her hair pulled back and wearing minimal make-up as she does a good impression of a standard Julia Stiles heroine. That is a very nice thing and the director allows Willa to actually get away with inserting a bit of nuance into her character's expression. Something far beyond the capabilities of anyone else in the cast.
Lee Child created a good enough character in Jack Reacher, but he plays best on an audio recording in your car where the thread of his simplistic stories distracts little from the challenges of operating a motor vehicle - even in heavy traffic. But as video production this type of stuff is basically floating debris.
Of course the first few episodes do have the ancillary attraction of frequent close-ups of Willa Fitzgerald's face with her hair pulled back and wearing minimal make-up as she does a good impression of a standard Julia Stiles heroine. That is a very nice thing and the director allows Willa to actually get away with inserting a bit of nuance into her character's expression. Something far beyond the capabilities of anyone else in the cast.
Lee Child created a good enough character in Jack Reacher, but he plays best on an audio recording in your car where the thread of his simplistic stories distracts little from the challenges of operating a motor vehicle - even in heavy traffic. But as video production this type of stuff is basically floating debris.