Reacher (TV series)

Reacher is an American action crime television series developed by Nick Santora for Amazon Prime Video. Based on the Jack Reacher novel series by Lee Child, it stars Alan Ritchson as the title character, a self-proclaimed hobo and former U.S. Army military police officer with formidable strength, intellect, and abilities. During his travels, Reacher crosses paths with dangerous criminals and battles them.

The first season, based on the first novel in the series, Killing Floor, was released on February 4, 2022. The second season, based on the eleventh novel, Bad Luck and Trouble, began on December 15, 2023, and concluded on January 19, 2024. The third season, based on the seventh novel, Persuader, premiered on February 20, 2025, and concluded on March 27, 2025. In October 2024, before the third season premiere, the series was renewed for a fourth season based on the thirteenth novel, Gone Tomorrow.

A spin-off series, Neagley, is in production.

Premise

Jack Reacher is a former U.S. Army military police major with extensive investigative and combat experience who prefers to live as a drifter, travelling from town to town across the United States.

In the first season, Reacher visits the rural town of Margrave, Georgia, where he is arrested for the murder of a man who turns out to be his brother. After he is freed, he teams up with two honest police officers, Oscar Finlay and Roscoe Conklin, to investigate a local conspiracy involving corrupt lawmen, politicians, and a wealthy business tycoon and his son who are running a counterfeiting syndicate.

In the second season, Reacher is contacted by Frances Neagley, a former member of his old army special-investigations unit. She tells him of the murder of another unit member, and they assemble the unit's remaining members to avenge his death. Their investigation leads them to a technology company with a corrupt security division conspiring with an arms dealer.

In the third season, Reacher attempts to rescue a DEA informant and delves into the dark heart of a rug-importing business that is a front for an arms trafficking enterprise led by Xavier Quinn, an enemy from his past.

Cast and characters

• Alan Ritchson as Jack Reacher
  • Maxwell Jenkins as young Jack Reacher (season 1)
• Malcolm Goodwin as Oscar Finlay (season 1; guest season 2), Margrave PD Police Captain and Chief Detective, and an ally of Reacher
• Willa Fitzgerald as Roscoe Conklin (season 1), Margrave PD Sergeant and an ally of Reacher
• Chris Webster as KJ Kliner (season 1), the entitled son of Kliner Sr. who is assisting his father's criminal operation
• Bruce McGill as Mayor Grover Teale (season 1), a crooked politician in league with the Kliner family
• Maria Sten as Frances Neagley, a corporate security professional who served with Reacher in the Army's 110th Special Investigations Unit as a Master sergeant
• Serinda Swan as Karla Dixon (season 2), a forensic accountant in corporate risk management, who served with Reacher in the 110th Special Investigations Unit
• Shaun Sipos as David O'Donnell (season 2), a lawyer with a family, who served with Reacher in the 110th Special Investigations Unit
• Ferdinand Kingsley as A.M. (season 2), a seasoned mercenary and terrorist arms dealer travelling under multiple assumed identities
• Robert Patrick as Shane Langston (season 2), a former NYPD detective and the corrupt head of security for New Age, a private defense contractor
• Sonya Cassidy as Susan Duffy (season 3), a DEA agent who is leading an investigation into Zachary Beck
• Johnny Berchtold as Richard Beck (season 3), Zachary's son who lost his ear to terrorists
• Roberto Montesinos as Guillermo Villanueva (season 3), a DEA agent and member of Susan Duffy's team
• Olivier Richters as Paul "Paulie" van Hoven (season 3), Zachary Beck's hulking bodyguard and Quinn's henchman
• Brian Tee as Francis Xavier Quinn / Julius McCabe (season 3), a corrupt former U.S. military intelligence lieutenant colonel-turned-arms dealer and previous nemesis of Reacher
• Anthony Michael Hall as Zachary Beck (season 3), the owner of an oriental rug importer, Bizarre Bazaar
• Christopher Marquette as Jacob "Jake" Merrick (season 4)
• Sydelle Noel as Tamara Green (season 4)
• Agnez Mo as Lila Hoth (season 4)
• Anggun as Amisha Hoth (season 4), Lila's mother
• Kevin Corrigan as Russell Plum (season 4)

Episodes

Season 1 (2022)

Season 2 (2023–24)

Season 3 (2025)

Production

Development

On July 15, 2019, a TV series adaptation of Lee Child's Jack Reacher novels was announced by Amazon. Nick Santora, who created Scorpion, was set to write, showrun, and produce the series through Paramount Television and Skydance Media. On January 14, 2020, the TV series was greenlit, with Don Granger, Scott Sullivan, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Marcy Ross, and Christopher McQuarrie as executive producers with Child. The first season was announced as an adaptation of Child's novel Killing Floor. In July 2021, it was announced M. J. Bassett had joined the series as a director. On February 7, 2022, Amazon Prime Video renewed the series for a second season. To adapt the books to screen the writers decided they would need to make Reacher verbalize his thoughts more often, but that they would keep his dialogue short and direct and have him only speak longer to people he respects. They also decided to introduce Neagley to the series earlier than in the books. On December 2, 2023, ahead of the second-season premiere, it was revealed that filming of a third season had begun. On October 9, 2024, ahead of the third season premiere, Amazon renewed the series for a fourth season, adapting the 2009 novel Gone Tomorrow.

Child mentioned that there are books that will probably never be adapted, either because of the setting, the tone of the story, or the story itself, such as 61 Hours, one of the most requested by fans.

Casting

On September 4, 2020, Alan Ritchson was cast in the title role. On March 22, 2021, Malcolm Goodwin, Willa Fitzgerald, and Chris Webster were cast as series regulars. On May 19, 2021, Bruce McGill, Maria Sten, and Hugh Thompson joined the main cast. On June 11, 2021, Kristin Kreuk, Marc Bendavid, Willie C. Carpenter, Currie Graham, Harvey Guillén, and Maxwell Jenkins were announced to have joined the cast in undisclosed capacities.

On September 14, 2022, Shaun Sipos joined as a series regular for the second season. On September 21, 2022, Serinda Swan, Ferdinand Kingsley, and Rory Cochrane joined the main cast while Domenick Lombardozzi, Luke Bilyk, Dean McKenzie, Edsson Morales, Andres Collantes, Shannon Kook, Ty Olsson, Josh Blacker, and Al Sapienza were cast in guest roles for the second season. Goodwin, Swan and Lombardozzi already starred in Santora's Breakout Kings in 2011. On May 5, 2023, Robert Patrick was cast to replace Cochrane who left due to a scheduling conflict with the second season.

On February 8, 2024, Anthony Michael Hall and Sonya Cassidy were cast as series regulars for the third season. On March 6, 2024, Brian Tee, Johnny Berchtold and Roberto Montesinos were cast as regulars of the third season, while Daniel David Stewart was cast in a recurring role. In May 2024, bodybuilder Olivier Richters, also known as "the Dutch Giant", was cast as Persuader's secondary antagonist Paulie.

On June 13, 2025, Jay Baruchel, Sydelle Noel, Agnez Mo, Anggun, and Kevin Corrigan were cast as series regulars for the fourth season while Kevin Weisman, Marc Blucas, and Kathleen Robertson were cast in recurring roles. Later that month, Baruchel was replaced by Christopher Marquette after exiting the series due to a personal matter.

Filming

A temporary townscape was built in North Pickering, Ontario to support filming of the first season. The entire fictional city of Margrave was built from the ground up in a leased farm field in Ontario. Other areas of filming include Toronto, Port Perry and Pickering. Principal photography of the first season took place between April 15 and July 30, 2021, in Toronto. During filming, Ritchson broke a bone in his shoulder, which required surgery. He also tore an abdominal muscle during a fight scene.

Filming for the second season took place between September 2022 and March 2023. The season was filmed in various locations in Ontario, Canada, including Toronto, Brampton and Hamilton.

Filming for the third season took place in between July and November 2023. Different parts of Canada served as backdrops, including Millbrook, Brantford and Downtown St. John's.

Principal photography for the fourth season began on June 16, 2025, with former US President Joe Biden and his son visiting the set in Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia. Filming for the fourth season wrapped by November 18, 2025.