I started watching the TV show, Reacher, a couple of months ago, and really enjoyed it. On social media, it gets criticized quite often. That’s fine, not everyone likes the same shows, but the review in The Atlantic is illuminating. Sophisticated people don’t like Reacher.
Amazon’s Reacher, the second season of which wraps up this week, is among the most-watched shows in the country.
I like it, and so do a lot of other people. It’s got an 8.1 rating on IMDB.
It’s as if our collective imaginative power source, its fuses blown, has switched over to some kind of small, noisy backup generator. Enough with nuance, enough with finesse.
You get it? The popularity of Reacher is indicative of a malfunction in America. How could a show that doesn’t address contemporary issues, politics or anything controversial, be such a threat to the deep-thinkers?
Reacher is pure masculinity, so the opposite of a Progressive. Reacher has a strict moral code that he lives by. He doesn’t force anyone to live like him. He doesn’t talk about it, he just does it. He is not a victim or a victimizer. Everything he is, is the opposite of Progressives and the political elite.
It helps that the casting, directing and writing are well-done.
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