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Now the second season is in production, featuring many of the characters from the first season, as well as a bevy of new ones and the odd surprise or two for aficionados of the novel series. Here’s what we know so far.

Season 2: The Plot

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Fans hoping to see more of the town of Margrave, where much of the first season was set, will be disappointed to hear that there will be no reprise. In keeping with Jack Reacher’s drifter persona, locales change with almost every book. In any case, showrunner Nick Santora has confirmed that the makers do not intend to follow the novel series in chronological order. Back in May, the news broke that the second season would be based not on Die Trying, the second book of the series, but on Child’s eleventh novel, Bad Luck and Trouble, which was published in 2007 and continued the series’ excellent sales, hitting the New York Times bestseller list.

Bad Luck and Trouble tells the story of Reacher’s previous colleagues, and army investigators, who he discovers are being murdered one by one. Determined to find out the truth, Reacher teams up with one of the team, Frances Neagley, to try and find those responsible and exact revenge. If the novel is anything to go by, expect season 2 to feature location filming in southern California, where much of Bad Luck and Trouble’s early action takes place, and Las Vegas, the setting for the finale.

Season 2: The Cast

Reprising his role as Jack Reacher is Alan Ritchson. After the runaway success of Reacher’s first season, Ritchson has had a very busy year, having been seen in Canada in late April filming Ordinary Angels, a drama about the relationship between a hairdresser (played by Hilary Swank) and a father trying to save his critically ill daughter. Afterward, Ritchson promptly switched to action mode, spending much of the summer hard at work on the tenth Fast and Furious film, provisionally titled Fast X and due to premiere next May. Ritchson plays Agent Aimes in the movie, which wrapped in August prior to his starting work on Reacher’s second season. Also reappearing is Danish actor Maria Sten (Swamp Thing, Big Sky) as a former military policeperson and confidante to Reacher Frances Neagley.

Joining Ritchson and Sten are a host of new arrivals to the series. Canadian actor Serinda Swan will play Karla Dixon, the special investigator who plays off Reacher in several of the books. Swan has an enviable pedigree in both film and television, having appeared in such shows as The Tomorrow People and having played the lead in the Canadian police procedural Coroner since 2019. Marvel fans will best know her as Medusa in the short-lived TV series Inhumans. Swan also stars as Elizabeth Taylor in the Korean War epic Devotion, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last month and goes on general release in November.

Another new addition is British actor Ferdinand Kingsley, most recently seen opposite Gary Oldman in the 2020 biopic Mank and The Sandman earlier this year as Hob Gadling. Shaun Sipos will also star as David O’Donnell, one of the protagonists of Bad Luck and Trouble and a former colleague of Reacher’s. Sipos’ extensive TV work has included stints on various genre shows, including The CW’s The Vampire Diaries, the DC spinoff Krypton, and Prime Video’s western sci-fi mashup Outer Range, which debuted in the spring and was renewed for a second season last week.

Other new cast members include Shannon Kook-Chun (The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It); Luke Bilyk (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Good Witch); Edsson Morales (Black Summer); Al Sapienza (Queen of the South, From Zero Till I Love You, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit); and Domenick Lombardozzi (The King of Staten Island, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) in supporting roles.

Release Date

At the time of writing, no release date has been published. However, as production only began last month, it seems likely that season two will not see a release until the spring or perhaps the summer of next year.