Screenplay writers sometimes actually read the book.

This is so close to the book that it's not really worth splitting hairs on the differences. Lee Childs is far from my favorite author but, overall, I like his character, Reacher. It's nice to see that they completely departed from the Reacher-in-name-only disaster by Tom Cruise. The casting is perfect. As far as Woke goes, I noticed none. Good series are few and far between so savor them when the do come around. Enjoy.

Typical 80s style propaganda

White man teams up with black man to fight evil White rednecks.

Hollywood really likes making White rednecks, Christians, Germans, and anything White the villains.

Time to start noticing this stuff when there is millions of antiWhite documentaries and no documentaries on holodomor, Mao Zedong, any evil communist, and why have ((they)) been kicked out of 109 countries.

Great show, one woke line

The show is surprisingly good and Reacher is allowed to be himself and the show knows well he is the main attraction. There’s one “woke” line from Neagley towards the end of the series, and the rest is woke free

Don’t get why people here write a show off automatically and bring the woke meter all the way up due to a small issue. You guys want “wokeness” to change, it’s never going to happen if one bitches over things that ARENT woke. A very common occurrence on this site………

Not woke but...

Not exactly openly woke but it is not free of hollywood west/east coast elitist bias.
Either the books author or the writers of the show have/had something againts small towns and the people who live in them, becasue the show is constantly painting them in a realy negitive light in several of the episodes. The sterotypes are getting a bit old and annoying.
The fake accents are painful to listen to.
The villains are all a mix of different races and countries.
When a new character was going to be introduced as a helper to the main character I was able to guess race and gender before they spoke and they were revealed. I am sure you can as well.

A few other minor gripes about it but over all if you want a bloody [I do mean bloody], gunslinging, explosive action packed detective show then it is worth the watch.

Not too woke. There is a racist white conservative guy as an antagonist.

0 woke

Mildly woke, overrated show.

Other reviewers have hit the major points already but one of the more insidiously Progressive aspects of this show is the fact that the protagonist is an immoral scumbag. Example: he wants info about someone, so he just goes and nearly strangles to death an innocent salesman to get it.

And then there's the mandatory woman beating the shit out of a random man because he was slightly persistent about touching a stripper, and somehow the show presents her not as the deranged violent criminal she is but as some kind of hero.

Also, the writing is mediocre, sometimes terrible, and most of the characters have the charisma of a sack of potatoes.

Not woke

There’s one woke line Nieley says, pertaining to feminism. No gay scenes or characters, there’s your stereotypical “might-be-racist” or just a miserable A-hole, character.. but definitely doesn’t take it over the top with the racial tension. Also they champion being an bad*ss alpha and masculinity (Reacher is all that).. luckily the 2 skinny female leads in the second season are “careered special military units” so it makes it easier to believe they can fight a 220lb dude.. overall great show, the non-woke masculine stuff completely outweighs any wokeism

A good first season marred by a mediocre second

Season 1 is pretty good, visually pleasing, and does seem to stick to the books, despite some forced diversity on Neagley, but the actress carries it well, so, whatever. Goodwin does a smashing job as Finlay.

Season 2, well, as many issues, first amongst which is that it is somewhat tedious and boring.
The show-runners have made a concerted and quite possibly ill-advised effort to make room for female empowerment. The Hollywood sort, not anything relevant. This, at the expense of the main protagonist.
This in turn somewhat breaks the character, as I, at least, wonder how one can be successful in his chosen careers while being an indecisive, submissive bitch.

Ah well, another one bites the dust.