j_loome

Note perfect, well acted, well shot.

I'm not a particular fan of the Reacher books. The writing's good, I liked one, the other had a poor plot.

But it works better as a show, to me.

A lot of the negative reviews on this seem either delusional or absurd. One guy gave it 3/10 because Reacher doesn't sleep with the female cop. Another gave it 3 because it isn't like procedural police shows he likes, even though this is clearly an action thriller.

A person could be forgiven for thinking a certain diminutive actor's notorious friends are deliberately downvoting this in the tragically sad hope of lowering the score drastically. If so, doesn't appear to be working.

Bleak, dark, funny, humane. It's basically like the writers from Deadpool took on an Elmore Leonard story, from the zanier "Maximum Bob" days. Everyone has little to lose, the hardest done by have the most understanding -- and occasionally outrage -- at the worst in humanity, and the 'good guy', who has a seriously violent urge to right wrongs, is a 16-year-old dope with busted knuckles. Don't let it die, Amazon. In its own way, it's as worthy of saving as the Expanse or Cobra Kai, and the characters have so many more stories that can be told.

It's just friggin funny, eh? From the angst-ridden small-town goth wannabes to the obviously flaming pastor to the hockey hair goons and the stoic farm boys, everyone drinks too much, fights too much and does a whole lot of nothing in Letterkenny. It takes small-town stereotypes and skewers the hell out of them, but doesn't stick to making fun of rural Canada, as the city folk get their comeuppance too. Principle topics of plots: sledding, drinking, hockey, fighting, religion, political correctness, weed and unemployment. If Trailer Park Boys is a slice of Canada's white trash culture, Letterkenny is a clever homage, explaining why so many people in the second-largest nation on Earth can drive hundreds of miles and still go nowhere.