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Here, Let Me Crush That For You! Amazon Prime’s Reacher Season 1 Review

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 A former Major of the Army military police, recently released and self-proclaimed hobo Jack Reacher heads to Margrave, Georgia, where he’s accused of murder and has to fend off corrupt cops, shady businessmen, and crooked politicians!

So the character Jack Reacher, from the books by Lee Child, has gone through a few screen incarnations at this point, perhaps most notably the Tom Cruise version. This latest embodiment, played by an absolutely stacked and jacked Alan Ritchson, seems much closer to Childs’ original vision, so let’s dive! Reacher season 1 is based on Childs’ debut Reacher novel, Killing Floor.

Like Agent Cooper, Reacher does love his pie. And yet, he never gets to actually experience it, for literally when he’s about to tuck into a piece of “best in the state” diner peach pie, he gets arrested by some shouting cops. And this is how he meets the law enforcement side of the Scooby-Doo gang in the making – Chief Detective of police and apparently the only black man in the entirety of Margrave, Oscar Finlay (Malcolm Goodwin); and pretty little Roscoe Conklin (Willa Fitzgerald), who immediately gets caught in Reachers’ orbit, whether she likes it or not.

It seems everyone in the entirety of Margrave has a secret to hide, and some are larger than others. Kliner Sr, (Currie Graham) is the owner of Kliner Industries and is more or less the godfather of Margrave, considering how much dirty money he’s sunk into the town in an attempt to more or less purchase ownership of it outright. Kliner’s spoiled son KJ (Chris Webster) of course immediately takes on his father’s dislike of Reacher and does plenty to meddle in Reacher’s unsanctioned investigations into the corruption of Margrave. The Mayor of Margrave, Grover Teale (Bruce McGill), is happily in league with every dastardly decision Kliner wants to make for Margrave, though he also has personal side hustles he tries to keep quiet. Reacher makes friends with the elderly black barber in town, Mosley (Willie C. Carpenter), after easily figuring out Mosley has a whole secretive past that occasionally crossed paths with Reacher’s own. Margrave’s medical examiner Jasper (Harvey Guillen) is one of the few law enforcement officers not trying to impede Reacher and pals in any way, and indeed, even tries to help them as the bodies begin piling up! And of course, there’s FBI Agent Picard (Martin Roach), an old friend of Reachers who comes to Margrave ostensibly to provide witness protection, but of course, has a dark hidden agenda all his own!

So, Paul Hubble (Marc Bendavid) is a quiet little banker, living with his pretty wife Charlene or Charlie (Kristin Kreuk) and their two kids in a modestly well-off place here in Margrave. Except he isn’t – Paul happens to be the first unwilling domino in a whole Rube-Goldberg operation of corruption that spans Margrave and beyond, and Reacher, aided by Roscoe and Finlay, is about to crush that vortex like an empty beer can!

Saying anything more would give away the entire game, so Moxie can but say, this version of Jack Reacher is quite entertaining, much closer to the books, and is worth repeated viewings! Season 2 has already been ordered for Amazon Prime Video, based on ‘Bad Luck and Trouble’, the 11th book in the Lee Childs Jack Reacher series.

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Paramount+ Reveals Official Main Title Sequence for the Upcoming Series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

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During the TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES panel earlier today at San Diego Comic Con, Paramount+ revealed the official main title sequence for the series. The sequence is composed by EMMY® nominee, Matt Mahaffey, known for his work on Sanjay and Craig, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie and much more. 

From the studios of the Mutant Mayhem film, the all-new Paramount+ original series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES explores the adventures of everyone’s favorite pizza-loving heroes as they emerge from the sewers onto the streets of NYC. Leo, Raph, Donnie and Mikey are faced with new threats and team up with old allies to survive both teenage life and villains lurking in the shadows of the Big Apple. The series is produced by Nickelodeon Animation and Point Grey Pictures.

TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES is executive produced by Chris Yost (The Mandalorian, Thor: Ragnarok) and Alan Wan (Blue Eye Samurai, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [2012 Series]). Production is overseen for Nickelodeon by Claudia Spinelli, Senior Vice President, TV Series Animation, Nickelodeon, and Nikki Price, Director of Development and Executive in Charge of Production.

In addition to the upcoming new series, stream all things Turtles on Paramount+.

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DISNEY+ CASTS DANIEL DIEMER AS FAN-FAVORITE ‘TYSON’IN SEASON TWO OF “PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS”

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 in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con, Rick Riordan and Disney+ revealed that Daniel Diemer (“Under the Bridge”) will star as fan-favorite cyclops “Tyson” in the epic adventure series “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.” Diemer joins Walker Scobell (Percy Jackson), Leah Sava Jeffries (Annabeth Chase) and Aryan Simhadri (Grover Underwood) as a series regular. The Disney+ Original series from Disney Branded Television and 20th Television will start filming its second season next week in Vancouver.

Season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is based on the second installment of Disney Hyperion’s best-selling book series titled “The Sea of Monsters” by award-winning author Rick Riordan. In the new season, Percy Jackson returns to Camp Half-Blood one year later to find his world turned upside down. His friendship with Annabeth is changing, he learns he has a cyclops for a brother, Grover has gone missing, and camp is under siege from the forces of Kronos. Percy’s journey to set things right will take him off the map and into the deadly Sea of Monsters, where a secret fate awaits the son of Poseidon.

Diemer stars as Tyson – a young Cyclops who grew up all alone on the streets, and finds it difficult to survive in the human world.  Shy and awkward, with a heart almost as big as he is, Tyson soon discovers that Poseidon is his father, which means Percy Jackson is his half-brother… and that Tyson may have finally found a home. 

Diemer recently starred in the Hulu limited series “Under the Bridge” based off the critically acclaimed book of the same name and a tragic true story of a missing teen girl in Vancouver in 1997. He will next star in the indie “Thug” opposite Liam Neeson and Ron Perlman for director Hans Petter Moland. Daniel was recently seen as the lead in the indie “Supercell” opposite Alec Baldwin and Skeet Ulrich and the lead in the film “Little Brother” opposite Phil Ettinger and JK Simmons. Daniel can also be seen in the Netflix series “The Midnight Club” and recently starred as the male lead in the breakout hit Netflix feature “The Half Of It” from producer Anthony Bregman and director Alice Wu. He is a graduate of Victoria Academy of Dramatic Arts in Vancouver.

Created by Rick Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg, season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is executive produced by Steinberg and Dan Shotz alongside Rick Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, Craig Silverstein, The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Bert Salke, The Gotham Group’s Jeremy Bell and D.J. Goldberg, James Bobin, Jim Rowe, Albert Kim, Jason Ensler and Sarah Watson.

The first season of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is available on Disney+

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