In the last 4–5 years, few action shows have risen to the same heights as Reacher, the critically acclaimed show on Prime Video starring Alan Ritchson. Before Reacher, Ritchson was moderately well-known for his roles in movies like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and older TV shows like Blue Mountain State, but his role in Reacher has taken his fame to new levels. Now, he can be seen starring in movies like War Machine, which are popular enough to crack the all-time top 10 most-watched list on the biggest streaming platform in the world, Netflix. As Ritchson’s stardom has continued to blossom, so too has the audience for Reacher, with more and more fans flocking to the show with each passing season on Prime Video.
Prime Video has aired four full seasons of Reacher to date, and the streamer was so confident that Season 4 was going to be a hit that the show was renewed for Season 5. Production on Season 5 is already underway, which should also allow the show to continue to return on a relatively speedy timeline. At the same time that the Reacher Season 4 finale aired on Prime Video today, the streamer also released all eight episodes of the first Reacher spin-off, Neagley, starring Maria Sten. Sten’s Neagley is one of the few characters to appear across all four seasons of Reacher. The review embargo for Neagley also lifted earlier in the week, and the show debuted to a strong 88% from critics on the aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes. The show has also jumped into the Prime Video top 10 in more than 25 countries around the world, and with all eight episodes out now, it’s expected to continue this success into the coming weeks. The show currently ranks as the #2 most-watched series on the platform, second only to Reacher Season 4.
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Collider Exclusive · Action Franchise Quiz What Action Series Would You Thrive In? Wick · Fast · Mission · Die Hard
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Four franchises. Four completely different ideas of what a hero is: the assassin with a code, the family that never leaves anyone behind, the man who does his own stunts, and the guy who simply refuses to die. Only one of them runs on your particular brand of trouble. Eight questions will tell you which one you would survive.
🐕Wick
🏁Fast
🧨Mission
🎄Die Hard
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How does a room know you’ve walked into it? Every action hero arrives differently. Some of them arrive before they arrive.
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It turns physical. What does your fighting actually look like? Choreography is character. Yours says something about you.
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Who is standing beside you when it starts? Some franchises are built on a team. Others are built on one person walking in alone.
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It has gone badly wrong. What keeps you upright? Act two exists to find out what you’re actually made of.
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There’s a vehicle. What are you driving, and how? No action franchise has ever survived without a car chase. This one is yours.
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How do you feel about the people giving the orders? There is always an institution. There is rarely a good one.
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Underneath all of it, what are you actually doing this for? The stunts are the reason people come. This is the reason they stay.
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When the credits roll, what do people say about you? Every franchise is really an argument about what makes someone worth watching.
Casting Has Been Completed Your Franchise Is…
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Four action series. One of them is built around exactly the way you
handle pressure, people, and a room that has just gone very quiet. Here is where you would survive
the trilogy, and probably headline it.
John Wick · Chapters 1–4 · 2014–2023
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John Wick
You are precision with a grudge. You don’t posture, you don’t
escalate, and you don’t warn anybody twice. That is exactly why the people who know you are
so careful never to be the reason you start.
The Wick films run on discipline: an underworld with actual etiquette, a hero who
honours every rule of it, and a world that unravels the instant someone breaks one
against him.
You share that quality. You are extraordinarily reasonable right up to the line, and
then completely immovable past it.
Focus, commitment and sheer will. You’d be the one carrying grief through three sequels
and turning it into technique rather than noise.
People wouldn’t call you dangerous. They’d say your name quietly and let that do the
work.
The Fast and the Furious · Fast X · 2001–2023
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Fast & Furious
You understand the thing the whole franchise is secretly about:
the cars are spectacular, but the crew is the point. You collect people, you keep them, and
you’d drive through a building for any one of them.
This series went from street racing to orbit without ever changing its actual subject,
because loyalty scales and plot doesn’t have to.
You have the same instinct. You build a family out of whoever turns up, and then you
defend it past the point of reason.
You’d thrive here because the franchise rewards exactly your strengths: warmth, nerve,
an absolute refusal to leave anyone behind, and a relaxed relationship with physics.
The mission can wait. The barbecue cannot.
Mission: Impossible · The Final Reckoning · 1996–2025
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Mission: Impossible
You over-prepare and then take the dangerous part yourself
anyway. It looks like control, but it’s really responsibility. You have never worked out how
to ask somebody else to carry the risk.
This is the franchise of the plan that collapses on schedule: the team, the mask, the
rooftop, and the one person sprinting flat out because sprinting is all that’s left.
You share that refusal to accept an outcome. Told the odds, you treat them as an
administrative error.
You’d thrive here because these films reward competence and loyalty in equal measure.
The mission matters, but nobody on the team gets left on the wrong side of a door.
Some people delegate the cliff. You have never once been that person.
Die Hard · A Good Day to Die Hard · 1988–2013
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Die Hard
You are not the most trained person in the building, the best
equipped, or the one anybody would have picked. You are simply the one still standing at the
end, which turns out to be the only qualification that matters.
Die Hard invented the modern action hero by making him mortal: outgunned, out-planned,
bleeding, and extremely funny about it.
You share that stubbornness. Adversity doesn’t make you noble, it makes you sarcastic,
and then it makes you unstoppable.
You’d thrive here because these films reward improvisation and nerve over preparation,
and you’ve never had the luxury of preparing anyway.
You didn’t want any of this. You just declined to be the person who let it happen.
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What Is ‘Neagley’ About?
Prime Video’s official synopsis for Neagley, which also stars Greyson Holt as Hudson Riley and Adeline Rudolph as Renee Birdwhistle, reads as follows: “Frances Neagley, a private investigator and former military protege of Jack Reacher, learns that a beloved friend from her past has been killed in a suspicious accident; using her knowledge, Neagley puts herself on a dangerous path to uncover evil.” Prime Video has yet to announce if Neagley Season 1 will be the first in several seasons, or if the show will be cancelled after one season. This will likely come down to viewership, so the series is off to a more than promising start.
Check out all episodes of Neagley on Prime Video and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of the Reacher franchise.
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