Review of Burial

Reacher: Burial (2023)
Season 2, Episode 5
5/10
Oh dear Lord, what have you done?
30 December 2023
The adventures of Dumb and Dumbest...

This adaptation of the excellent book by Lee Child makes my brain hurt.

The constant explaining of the plot by the 4 musketeers is painful and does nothing to maintain or build the tension.

It's like the script writer took Lee Child's book and stuck it in Chat GPT and wrote the prompt "rewrite this so a 6 year old could understand".

The dialogue is awful. One 'action packed' episode had the plucky quartet sit in a diner for 20 minutes explaining the plot, again... I've seen more action, tension and drama in Driving Miss Daisy!

As one other reviewer wrote, just film the book. Lee Child's dialogue is crisp, efficient and clear. His pacing and plot structure are wonderful. This abomination needs the life choking out of it, as Reacher says in ep. 5.
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