While Amazon’s new Reacher series may not have enjoyed the support of any of the usual suspects in the state-sponsored schlock genre, it contains many of the same tropes and values familiar to fans of statist entertainment. In this piece I outline why that is – virtually all the major creative minds behind Reacher have CVs littered with CIA and DOD credits – this is basically the same crew that brought us Jack Ryan. For what it’s worth, I kind of enjoyed the show but hated its politics. Venezuela really needs a Mario t-shirt asking ‘why always me?’.
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SpyCulture.com is written and produced by Tom Secker.
Tom is a British-based journalist, author, and podcaster. His specialities include the security services, Hollywood, propaganda, censorship and the history of terrorism. Tom’s writing and research has appeared in The Mirror, RT, Salon, Newsweek, The Atlantic, The Independent, Insurge Intelligence, Shadowproof, TechDirt and elsewhere.
Tom lives on the Lancashire coast and is a proud Northerner. His favourite spy is Eddie Chapman a.k.a. Agent Zigzag. He may or may not sleep with a gun under his pillow.
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