How you feel about Reacher, the eight episode series telling the story of Lee Child's vigilante with a heart almost as big as his ham-like fists, can probably be determined by your feelings on the deaths of innocent bystanders in pop culture.
Growing up I remember a lot of outraged tabloid headlines about high body counts in action movies and, compared to those days when Arnold Schwarzenegger or Sylvester Stallone might cut through dozens of people while wisecracking with an Uzi, I feel like modern TV and film takes a more measured approach.
But if you're not familiar with Jack Reacher it's probably important to know he's not really a 'measured' sort. When, early on in the new Amazon Prime series, our eponymous hero says after a brutal atrocity that he's going to 'track everyone responsible down and kill them all' he's not messing around.
It's a testament to Child's writing that somehow you can get past that and see a man who's more hero than psychopath, even with a frankly startling number of bodies in his wake.
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