Reacher Season 2's Book Jump Is A Very Smart Choice
It’s been revealed that Reacher season 2 will be skipping ahead in the book series to adapt book 11, Bad Luck and Trouble, and that’s secretly a really good choice. As Reacher season 1 was a relatively faithful adaptation of the first Lee Child Jack Reacher novel, Killing Floor, it was assumed that the series would continue through the series and adapt book 2, Die Trying. However, the showrunner behind Amazon’s Reacher, Nick Santora, signaled this might not be the case and it’s clear he has bigger ideas in mind.
Reacher season 1 follows Jack Reacher’s adventures as he arrives in the fictional town of Margrave, Georgia. Shortly after his arrival, he is arrested for a murder he could not possibly have committed. In clearing his name and finding the true murderer he employs the skills that he developed in his past life as the Major tasked with creating the U.S. Army 110th MP Special Investigation Unit. While some of Jack Reacher’s backstory was explored through family and military flashbacks, the focus was on Reacher in the current day.
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Jack Reacher’s past informs his present, but it took several books for Lee Child to fully flesh out Reacher’s backstory. Book 2, Die Trying, featured an old commanding officer, Leon Garber, and book 6, Without Fail, included a fellow member from Reacher’s investigation unit, Francis Neagley (Maria Sten, introduced in Reacher season 1). By jumping ahead to adapt Bad Luck and Trouble for Reacher season 2, the Amazon show can more concretely establish Reacher’s backstory early on in the series. Bad Luck and Trouble has a story tied intrinsically to the Special Investigation Unit as past members of the group have started showing up dead
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