Dominique

Episode four, season three...i am spelling this all out so that i easily make the minimum required characters... i really enjoyed seasons one and two...but, since the beginning of season three, i have wondered whether or not i would actually make it through this season before giving up on this series...interestingly enough, between this and the last season, i began reading the Lee Childs books that this series is based on. I really enjoyed book one...but i thought book two was terrible. And now this. But, unlike the featured review, i agree with his assessment of this season...but disagree about this episode... this episode HAD to happen...that's been obvious since we were made to understand that Reacher had a grudge. We, or at least EYE, needed back story... and, to be TOtally honest, i LOVE back story...it puts flesh on the bones of any story. What's the point of knowing 'z' if we don't know 'a-y', aye?

One thing that was a glaring flaw, though...when the police get to the barn, there's snow on the ground...footprints are easy to discern...and yet they believe Reacher's story? The footprints would've told even ME that he was lying. There have been HUGE glitches like this throughout this season... we should know in the pilot that things that happened were NOT in Reacher's character...so the end of that episode was no surprise WHATsoever...but it sure wasn't good storytelling...i'll ride this season out. But it might be my last...too much good stuff to watch to waste my time on bad to mediocre...

Season 1 was lightening in a bottle. Came around right when everyone needed a show like that. What worked about it was the stoic mysterious nature of our protagonist. He came across more like a superhero who hung up his cape. We knew little about him other than he will win any fight he starts, he is just as smart as he is strong, and he's old fashioned.

The second season made all the wrong decisions. They decided to make half the show a flashback, where he is apart of a team of young, good looking, joke cracking marines who are just as tough as he. All this did was make Reacher seem less mysterious, less tough and less interesting.

Reacher works perfectly as a lone wolf who ended up in a random town because "trouble always finds him".

Season 3 does this exactly. In a new town, by himself. Using his wit and strength to take down someone evil.

I didn't mind this episode being a flashback like some others. We needed reason to hate Quinn, and this gave that to us on a silver platter.

Someone really messed up this episode, either the screenwriter or the director.

The dialogue is awkward, clunky and unnatural. The actress playing Dominique was very shy and awkward, even wooden-like in some scenes. The jokes are forced, the actors saying them look like they are attending a funeral. The overall quality is somewhere inbetween Star Wars Episode 2 and The Room...

They either cut costs and used AI or some intern, the difference in quality is night and day.

PS: The positive reviews seem written by the staff who worked on this show, many are completely biased, unrealistic and overly optimistic.

As previous seasons the first episodes are fire then the pace slows to explore history / flashbacks and reasoning.

This episode takes a dark turn like season 1's 'morrisons got nailed' death but holds back a bit on the gore / spectacle of it.

Just enough info and clever camera work to sell the brutality but with out showing the wounds.

The episode then brings some levity and humour to cheer us up.

I would say people are being too harsh on duffy's actress and other petty grievances this season is a bit darker / more brutal tale than the previous, but it's still great i just wish it was all out at once can't wait for next week !

Best episode of the season, the flashbacks might be cheesy to some, but they are always amazing and takes you in instantly.

The vibes I got from watching season 1 were back in this episode, and I loved it! I originally thought that Quinn might be and old character recurring, but him being a new character made it a bit more exiting and adding on the layer of his psychological background makes you truly believe this guy is capable of anything. I think this might be the only flashback episode of the season, but it was needed to set up the villain - I was not invested in "Quinn" as a character before this episode - now I want to see Reacher kill him so badly.