Tracker
Summary
Tracker , the unexampled gamey - visibility CBS action play , getsReachercomparisons in first reviews — but not all are favorable . A proved success in the streaming landscape , action dramas have aid lead to high-pitched - profile hits likeThe Night Agent , The Recruit , Jack Ryan , andThe Terminal List . Even with stiff challenger , however , Reacherstands out . Just days after debuting , time of year 2 became the No . 1 rubric of 2023 for Prime Video in terms of full viewer across all serial and films globally .
CBS looks tocapture some of thatReacheraudiencewithTracker , a new show from God Almighty Ben H. Winters . It starsThis Is Usalum Justin Hartleyas Colter a lone - wildcat survivalist who travels the country and helps lick mysteries as a reward seeker . The assumption of the novel procedural , which had the in demand spot of debuting after the lively broadcast of the 2024 Super Bowl , suck up decipherable comparability toReacher . But critic are split on whether that ’s a good matter .
Is Tracker A Good Reacher Replacement?
Reviews are split.
Writing forThe Hollywood newsman , Daniel Feinberg sum up thatTrackeris “ mediocre , but acceptably ‘ Reacher’-lite . ” Feinberg move on to back the series with a caveat , writing in part : “ If you take over that Tracker is n’t exactly Reacher 2.0 , but it ’s near enough to extend the equivalent laundry - fold deflection , it has virtue even if , as a television show , it ’s beyond forgettable . ”
TV Insider ’s Matt Roush underscore the cardinal departure betweenReacherandTrackerin the opening of his follow-up , asking : “ Is Reacher too red for you ? regard Tracker , which is also based on a series of page - turning thrillers ( by Jeffery Deaver ) , also about a drifting lone hand with a sorry past who put on the line his neck wherever he goes , with the scar to prove it . ” The Alan Ritchson - go adaptation of Lee Child again comes up in Nina Metz’sChicago Tribunereview , dinging the CBS effort for how it portray Hartley ’s lead character : “ If only the show saw the humor in an original like Colter ( which is what makes the similarly - theme Reacher on Amazon so watchable ) . ”
Netflix is gearing up to release its big Reacher renewal , but the coming serial does face one problem that Amazon does n’t have to worry about .
Several of the reviews cite thatTracker , unlikeReacher , has a logical cast of keep going fiber . That includesDeadwoodandBig Little Liesactor Robin Weigert , Work in Progresscreator Abby McEnany , in accession to Fioana Renee as the lead eccentric ’s former fire , who is a lawyer . Finding that the ensemble compliments Hartley , Terry Terrones forPaste Magazinegives the CBS effort a prescribed judgement and concludes : “ Tracker is fundamentally the net version of Reacher , so it ’s much more phratry - friendly , but I still want to see more fisticuffs . ”
Trackerairs Sundays at 9 postmortem ET on CBS .
Source : The Hollywood Reporter , TV Insider , Chicago Tribune , Paste Magazine
