Adapting Gone Tomorrow, the 13th novel in Lee Child‘s long-running series, the fourth season of Prime Video’s flagship action series Reacherhas been the talk of the streaming world for the last few weeks, with the most action-packed installment yet for Alan Ritchson‘s titular skull-crusher culminating in an explosive finale today. Penned by Sam Hill and directed by Scott Sullivan, the eighth and final episode of Season 4, “Cut,” would normally prove a difficult pill for fans to swallow, considering this marks the end of their favorite streaming series for another year.
But the blow of another Reacher season coming to a close has been considerably softened by the arrival of the long-awaited spin-off, Neagley. The first proper spin-off in the franchise, which premieres immediately following the Reacher Season 4 finale, hands over the baton to Maria Sten (Swamp Thing), who has transitioned from Reacher’s former 110th Special Investigations Unit protégé to a difficult, dangerous life as a Private Investigator in Chicago.
All eight episodes of Neagley have debuted at once on Prime Video and are sure to find their way to the top of the streaming charts. But before they make their bid for streaming supremacy, how have all eight episodes fared in the eyes of critics? Now that the embargo has been lifted on Neagley, fans will be wondering if this ambitious spin-off can match its beloved predecessor. At the time of writing, Neagley boasts a strong average score of 88% from critics on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, which is 7% short of the total series score for Reacher.
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Collider Exclusive · Action Franchise Quiz What Action Series Would You Thrive In? Wick · Fast · Mission · Die Hard
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
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🎄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.
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Casting Has Been Completed Your Franchise Is…
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.
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John Wick · Chapters 1–4 · 2014–2023
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.
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The Fast and the Furious · Fast X · 2001–2023
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.
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Mission: Impossible · The Final Reckoning · 1996–2025
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.
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Die Hard · A Good Day to Die Hard · 1988–2013
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 Did Critics Say About ‘Neagley’?
According to Rotten Tomatoes, Neagley falls just short of the heights of Reacher, a sentiment shared by Collider’s David Caballero, who awarded a 7/10 in his review, calling it “a show that delivers exactly what it promises, with a simple but well-executed mystery led by an incredibly intriguing lead and greatly elevated by a likable cast.” “If executed right, Neagley has a good chance of reaching the same popularity as the flagship, if not more,” wrote ScreenRant’s Ana Dumaraog in a glowing review, with CBR’s Jamie Parker praising the series for letting the titular fan-favorite “shine.”
Neagley is available to stream in full on Prime Video. Make sure to stay tuned to Collider for the latest news.
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