Reacher Season 3 Just Showed Us What That Neagley Spin-Off Could Look Like – SlashFilm

This put up incorporates spoilers for episode 6 of “Reacher” season 3.

“Reacher” is perhaps a couple of lone hero wandering the US, however Alan Ritchson’s righteous vigilante is not utterly alone. Season 1 of the vastly-well-liked Prime Video collection launched us to a detailed pal of the titular hero: Maria Sten’s Frances Neagley. 

The succesful former soldier joined her former boss in direction of the top of the primary season and have become an prompt fan-favourite. Then, in season 2, “Reacher” launched a complete staff of Military badasses, with Reacher’s former one hundred and tenth Particular Investigations Unit reuniting with their chief to trace down the villain answerable for offing their ex-colleagues. Neagley was, after all, a part of that crew. In reality, the ebook on which season 2 was primarily based, “Dangerous Luck and Hassle,” featured Neagley as a important character, so it was solely proper she performed a central position within the second season. This choice apparently went over effectively with followers, as Prime Video introduced in October 2024 that Neagley could be getting her personal spin-off collection (through Deadline).

Earlier than we see Reacher’s pal and fellow badass enterprise out on her personal, nonetheless, now we have season 3 of “Reacher,” which delivers extra Neagley motion forward of her personal present’s debut. Working as a personal investigator in Chicago, Sten’s character is drawn into Reacher’s newest debacle after the ex-army police officer asks her to run a background test on the season’s important villain, Xavier Quinn (Brian Tee). Sadly for Neagley, this places her in Quinn’s sights. Thankfully for us, although, it means we get to see the one hundred and tenth alum deal out some carnage of her personal in a solo motion sequence that bodes very effectively for her upcoming spin-off collection. 

The Frances Neagley spin-off is formally titled “Neagley,” holding with “Reacher” and one other surname-solely present from manufacturing firm Skydance, “Cross,” which grew to become a primary hit for Prime Video in 2024. The brand new collection shall be overseen by “Reacher” government producer and showrunner Nick Santora, who is without doubt one of the folks mainly answerable for making the collection such successful. That means the brand new present is already in good arms, particularly since writer Lee Little one is onboard as soon as once more as government producer. However simply in case that wasn’t sufficient to persuade you, now we have additional proof that “Neagley” shall be each bit nearly as good as “Reacher,” with the newest season 3 episode showcasing an intense and fascinating motion sequence that additionally reveals off a few of Neagley’s charisma.

In episode 6, we see Xavier Quinn dispatch two goons to a Chicago workplace constructing to take out the personal investigator snooping round Quinn’s illicit dealings. Sadly for these henchmen, Neagley is that non-public investigator, and her expertise realized throughout her time within the one hundred and tenth are as sharp as ever. After recognizing the henchman from the kitchen, Neagley distracts them with, of all issues, a fridge and a printer, so as to make her approach throughout the workplace and again to her desk. There, she retrieves her pistol and shortly places down her attackers. That sequence in and of itself is properly staged, with a detailed-up shot ensuring we all know that Neagley has left her firearm at her desk. Her on-the-fly downside-fixing additionally tells us rather a lot about her resourcefulness and fast-considering expertise, mirroring these of her erstwhile chief. Nevertheless it’s the scene that comes after this that actually sells Sten’s character as a collection lead.

After catching one of many henchmen with a bullet to the abdomen, Frances Neagley finds him bleeding out within the kitchen and calmly goes about making herself a bowl of cereal whereas he begs her to name an ambulance. She then makes use of his dire circumstances to elicit the knowledge she wants and, between bites of her cereal, casually responds to her attackers’ request to name him an ambulance with that traditional dad joke, “Okay, you are an ambulance.”

It won’t be probably the most unique line, however the scene as a complete establishes that Neagley is simply as ruthless as Reacher when she must be, and her insouciance within the face of being attacked in her personal workplace and the sluggish dying of a person in entrance of her personal eyes provides us a way of simply how intense this character actually is. Had this simply been the properly-executed shootout that it was, it will have been sufficient to persuade naysayers that Neagley was the actual deal. However with this additional backwards and forwards, we all know for positive that “Neagley” goes to be simply as participating a present as “Reacher” –  which is already TV’s greatest motion collection – and will probably surpass her former chief in that regard.

The official logline for the collection guarantees a narrative similar to “Reacher” season 2, through which Neagley learns that “a beloved pal from her previous has been killed in a suspicious accident,” prompting her to turn into “hell-bent on justice.” I can think about this quest for revenge will function a number of scenes through which Neagley reveals her chilly-blooded aspect as she takes out the perpetrators of her pal’s dying, maybe involving some kind of informal eating à la her “Reacher” episode 6 look — and albeit, I can not wait.

There may be one other side to Frances Neagley’s huge motion scene in “Reacher” episode 6. It might sound trivial to level out, however the Chicago workplace block setting felt oddly immersive. It is maybe price pointing to “Reacher” season 1, for which the crew have been pressured to construct a whole metropolis from scratch in a cornfield because of the international pandemic. Because of this, whereas the present clearly fared effectively sufficient, with “Reacher” season 1 breaking Prime Video streaming data, there is no doubt it felt small at instances, and even betrayed its fabricated nature with units that felt a bit of too clear. After all, that every one modified with season 2 and its NY city setting, however for me at the least, “Reacher” has all the time retained the sense of apparent confection from its first season. No matter they did to shoot Neagley’s workplace gunfight, it by no means as soon as felt prefer it was on a soundstage, which is a minor level, however one thing concerning the Chicago metropolis lights truly glinting and shifting via the home windows enhanced the sense of pleasure at the potential for seeing Sten’s personal investigator tearing up the Windy Metropolis.

The “Neagley” spin-off began filming in February 2025, and Alan Ritchson is predicted to look as a visitor star. However he won’t even be wanted if this newest episode of “Reacher” is something to go by. There isn’t any doubt Ritchson himself is a giant a part of why “Reacher” has turn into such a reliably well-liked collection for Amazon’s streaming service. In comparison with former Jack Reacher actor Tom Cruise, Ritchson is a a lot better, extra ebook-correct model of the character, and followers clearly latched on to his interpretation (and, after all, his large muscle tissues).

With that in thoughts, a giant a part of the success of “Neagley” will little question hinge upon Maria Sten’s efficiency within the lead position. Fortunately, every part we have seen of Sten up to now in “Reacher” suggests she’ll haven’t any downside in that regard, and her newest look proves past a shadow of a doubt that her present will be each bit as participating because the mothership collection, even when Ritchson would not seem.