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Don't underestimate the power of Dad TV: 'Reacher' is the genre at its best

It may have started out as an insult, but there's nothing wrong with Dad TV. You can see it all – responsibility-free wish fulfillment, fistfights, romantic fantasy – in the new season of Reacher.
Alan Ritchson as Jack Reacher.

Jack Reacher is a distinctive, down-to-earth action hero.

Created by novelist Lee Child, Reacher is smart, strong and out of the military, traveling the country with no home base or fixed job. He's a typical wandering hero — in the books and Prime Video's Reacher series, which has a second season dropping Friday — using the skills he developed as an investigator in the U.S. Army's military police to help others.

In the series, he's played by Alan Ritchson – a mountain

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