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The White-Power Fantasy of Reacher
The streaming juggernaut fronts as wallpaper TV, but its uncanny fiction is anything but easygoing.
Based on the Lee Child novels and developed by Nick Santora, Reacher is the kind of series that exemplifies the sleight of hand the TV medium does best, beguiling with one set of beckoning fingerswhile smuggling complex propaganda with the other. In the premiere episode, Reacher wordlessly halts a domestic-abuse incident on his way into a diner, where, once inside, he doesn’t get to enjoy his cup of black coffee, or the slice of peach pie marketed as the best in the state, because he’s soon arrested for a murder he didn’t commit. He is both inside the system (he’s a former U.S. Army military police major) and outside it(no one orders Reacher; he applies justice where he sees fit), recognizing corruption in governing bodies but ultimately believing in their worth and shoring up their value by acting as if their problems are the result of a few bad apples rather than full-blown environmental rot.
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