Reacher, Season 1
While it isn't as bad as a Reacher book that a friend lent to me (laden with fight scene descriptions along the lines of "the bad guy's blow would have sent any normal man off to orbit Mars, but not Reacher..."), and while it's engaging enough that I'm 75% through S1 and I will watch the rest of this season, be prepared for tropes. Like the good-looking small-town charming police gal who suddenly is revealed as "I applied for the CIA but I didn't score high enough on the 'taking shit from anyone' test, I'm a badass, see!". Or how bad guy learns of a juicy bit of dirt from Reacher's past and starts spreading it around, but of course because since Reacher is "The Good Guy", there had to be a morally squeaky clean explanation for it. Or how the plot has to be so massively overblown that instead of some corruption that is plaguing some middle-of-nowhere village, this shit has to go international, affecting guys at the top of the Secret Service and shit and literally everything is connected. Like if someone wanted to update "The A-Team" but make it grittier and with higher stakes but just as ridiculous.
It has shades of "In the Heat of the Night" about it, but if it was written by the guy who writes Riddick movies. For example, the protagonist literally walks into a village in the middle of nowhere for the first time, walks into a cafe, orders a slice of pie and is arrested for murder by officers who are obviously dead certain he did it. It's dramatic, sure, but it makes no freaking sense at all. Perhaps I'm being unfair to the Riddick author in this comparison
I've talked previously about how I liked "Rings of Power" because the characters aren't divided into good and evil, that stuff happens and each character reacts realistically to that event in their own way, whether it's morally good, bad, redemptive or whatever. This story though has no such humane complications. One could argue that Reacher himself is a morally murky character but despite his ruthless nature, he's obviously intended to be a paragon of a good guy. I'm not expecting a tropey moral quandary for Reacher in the finale. Probably the folksy gal or the detective though.