Reacher's back, and he's just as gigantic as ever – as if anyone would expect anything different. Lee Child's iconic lone wanderer has become perhaps Prime Video's biggest star, and his show also helpfully proves that it's possible to put seasons out without waiting years between them (like some other, bigger-budgeted franchises).
We have a proper trailer for the show's new season now, ahead of its premiere on 12 August, so you don't have to wait too long before you'll be able to start crunching through it yourself. Alan Ritchson's back and it looks like he might have a very twisty story to take part in this time around.
Like all good Reacher stories, this one starts with Reacher making a journey, but things rapidly take a turn when he spots a woman looking very distressed on her own in his train. When he approaches her, she pulls a gun, but it doesn't take long for her to end up dead. Reacher's nature compels him to pull at the thread and figure out why any of this happened.
This swiftly brings him to the attention of various federal law enforcement agencies, along with a criminal element, and many of the clues seem to point towards political involvement. It's a conspiracy, basically, and Reacher's going to make some new friends as he tries to figure it out with whatever level of violence is required.
He'll clearly recruit the dead woman's brother, who's a cop himself and is just as keen to understand what happened to his sister. More importantly, though, the trailer makes it very clear that we're going to get plenty of intense fight scenes for Ritchson to show off his now obvious commitment to the role.
He continues to inhabit the character really nicely, while also saying a whole lot of sensible things in interviews – US politics is clearly annoying to him right now, and who can blame him? Reacher returns in a couple of weeks, so expect to see more of him as he promotes what might just be Amazon's biggest show going by volume of biceps, if nothing else.
