Season 1 was great. This seems almost cringy so far. I laugh when they use the "you don't mess with the special investigators" line. It's so cri gy an forced. Entire season feels like a spoof on Jack Reacher not the actual Reacher series.
This season is a joke. It's dogshit. This show became a parody of itself overnight. JFC, it's one of the worst shows on TV. It's like
Xena: Warrior Princess, but minus the tongue-in-cheek campiness.
Sure, Season 1 had several action sequences where it plunged into absurdly unrealistic, superhero-like choreography. But a little of that is forgivable. It's about a Bond-like protagonist, after all. This season? We get the biker gang shodown in the back of a restaurant parking lot. I can't even. What the fuck am I watching? The late seasons of
Arrow on the CW?
And Season 1 had some moments where the dialogue plummeted into the histrionic musings a preteen might have, but that is
all this season has to offer. There's no restraint. Sarcasm, condescension, bitchiness, self-righteousness, childish machismo... it's unrelentingly full throttle. Never lets up. All the characters preen like a bunch of snotnosed children. And it's like they think we won't realize how immature and melodramatic the show is because they throw in a sex scene we don't really want with a character we don't care about. No, you Hollywood idiots, that doesn't automatically make something appeal to adults. I miss Roscoe. I didn't realize she was the heart and soul of season 1. I do now.
How did this happen? It instantly became this mashup of a daytime soap opera, a campy 90's after-school low budget action series, a CW melodramatic superhero series, and the most garbage A-budget action movie serials like the
Transformers sequels married to the cash-grabbing revenge flick pigwash that spawned from the success of
Taken. Everything bad from all of those things rolled into one.
What a fucking epic disappointment.
