"Reacher" on Amazon

[Zorro]

5. Bingewatched the series this weekend

Reacher is just as preposterous as he's portrayed in the Lee Child novels (and I've read a few).

He's a ridiculous caricature; a musclebound savant who can effortlessly kill or maim a half-dozen or so simultaneously but is seriously challenged by a twerp wielding only a crowbar, and a clairvoyant who can locate a man on the run within a hundred mile radius down to the very room in the seedy motel where he's hiding out with nothing to go on other than his "instincts" and "experience". And Ritchson certainly looks the part and has some clever lines, but Laurence Olivier he ain't.

The plot itself is pretty violent, with so many gruesome deaths that in the real world it would lead to the national guard being mobilized. It's waaaayyy over-the-top, but I suppose that's part of its appeal.