Amazon Prime fans declare thriller ‘a brutal masterpiece’ as best season ends

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Amazon Prime Video fans are in mourning after the dramatic ending of the ‘best show on TV’.

Today, the final episode of Reacher season 3, based on Lee Child’s novels, dropped on the global streaming platform.

The action drama’s latest season follows Reacher (Alan Ritchson) as he is enlisted as an undercover informant to help investigate the owner of a rug import business, who is involved in some dodgy dealings.

After watching the final episode, viewers took to X to praise the third season as ‘complex’ and ‘amazing.’

Among them was @‌Usman, who shared: ‘Holy molly guacamole! That fight sequence was a goddamn brutal masterpiece!#Reacher #Paulie.’

@mrnastyodrama enthused: ‘Reacher is the best show on TV and it’s not even close.’

The entire third season of Reacher is now available to watch on Amazon Prime (Picture: Jasper Savage/Prime) Viewers have called Reacher the ‘best show on TV’ (Picture: Amazon Content Services LLC/Sophie Giraud. All Rights Reserved)

Echoing their sentiment, @S_Sivakumar raved: ‘Season 3 is the best yet. Wait for the 4th begins… #Reacher.’

@Isori_22 added: ‘#Reacher S3 is really great! This season surprisingly raies the stakes, featuring a complex storyline and allowing us to see a different side of Reacher this time. The series just keeps getting better and better throughout these episodes. Ritchson continues to be amazing.’

Fans hopefully won’t have too long to wait until Reacher’s fourth season, which was confirmed in October.

However, Amazon has not given any details about the next instalment, including which among Child’s 30 Reacher books will be adapted.

Earlier this year, Child told Metro that selecting which novel to transform into a TV series is a ‘very weird and amorphous’ process.

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He continued: ‘It’s a bit like you go to a restaurant, you’re looking at the menu and there are 10 items that you want, and so you just pick one.

‘The main producer called Don [Granger] and the showrunner called Nick [Santora] and I get together on the phone, and it’s a bit like discussing what to add for dinner tonight.

‘It can be whatever, and there are 30 books, so we’ve got a wide choice, and it’s just what we feel like in the moment.’

Child also revealed the major change he suggested to Reacher’s character after watching season one.

The fourth season of Reacher has already been confirmed by Amazon (Picture: Jasper Savage/Prime)

He said: ‘I wanted to make Reacher a little more dishevelled,’ he says. ‘I felt in season one he was a little bit “casual Friday” the way he was dressed, and I wanted him scruffier and dirtier; especially for season two, where the contrast between his life post-army and his friend’s life post-army has been so radically different. I wanted that contrast to be more obvious.

‘I think Alan is very comfortable being scruffy, so the scruffy Reacher was something that came naturally to him.’

Like previous seasons, Reacher season 3 has been a huge hit for Amazon, clocking up 54,600,000 viewers globally in its first 19 days, making it the most-watched returning season on the streamer.

Reacher is available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.

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