Key Takeaways

  • Reacher season 2 is premiering on December 15, 2023, following a long wait and high expectations after the first season.
  • The season will feature bigger stunts and explosions, suggesting a larger scale of story compared to the first season.
  • Reacher season 2 will be exclusive to Amazon Prime Video, making it easy to binge-watch all the episodes at once.

It's been a long wait since the first season of Reacher finally did justice to the immense hero of Lee Child's legendary novel series, and now Reacher is finally coming back for a second season.

With expectations raised after Alan Ritchson's debut as the hulking character, we know which novel's being adapted, when the season is debuting, and we even have a trailer to sink our teeth into.

So, read on to find out everything you should know about the next season of Reacher.

Reacher season 2 release date

Reacher's second season is premiering on 15 December 2023, as confirmed by the season's first full trailer, which you'll find further down this page.

We already knew quite a while back that the show would return sometime in December 2023, as it was included under that date in a Prime Day showreel back in July 2023, but it's great to have a precise date to circle in our calendars.

That had been the first we'd heard for quite some time, even though Amazon confirmed another season was coming shortly after the first one debuted.

We know that the show started filming in late 2022, thanks to a Tweet from Ritchson himself. Then, in late February 2023, we saw that it had finished shooting thanks to an Instagram post from Amazon.

A rumour in April 2022 suggested that the show would actually shoot two seasons back-to-back for the sake of efficiency, so we might get a third season that doesn't take as long to arrive, if we're lucky, although this is unconfirmed by Amazon.

Reacher season 2 trailer

We finally for the first trailer for the next season of Reacher in early November 2023, and for once it's not a measly little 30-second teaser. This is a proper look at the season across nearly two minutes.

From that trailer, it looks like we can expect bigger stunts and explosions than in the first season, which makes sense as it's going to be dealing with a slightly bigger scale of story than that one's small-town situation.

How and where to watch Reacher season 2

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Prime Video

The good news is that when Reacher 2 arrives things will be very simple in terms of where you'll be able to find the new episodes - it's an Amazon original, so will be exclusive to Prime Video, which you can take out a membership on at any time.

If it follows the template of the first season, every episode will come out at the same time, too, making for an easy binge. This also means that you can hop onto Prime Video to catch up with the first season at any time.

Which book is Reacher season 2 based on?

It had been heavily rumoured that Amazon plans to follow the publication order of the Lee Child books - at least initially. This would see the second season of the show tackle Die Trying, book two in the series.

This had been indicated not just by anonymous sources but also by Ritchson himself, who previously said that he wants to see the show continue to work through the books in order.

However, thanks to Ritchson's announcement on his now-deleted Twitter account, we now know that the next book to be adapted will be the eleventh in the series - Bad Luck and Trouble.

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Prime Video

This skips us forward by a number of books, although given there's very little connecting each story that shouldn't matter for viewers. The one bit of connective tissue, and the likely reason why it's been chosen, is that the story features Reacher's ex-colleague Neagley, who appeared in Season 1.

Bad Luck and Trouble sees Reacher respond to a distress call from Neagley to help her investigate the death of one of their old military unit, and things predictably get more complicated from there.

Author Lee Child has been heavily involved with the show so far, even getting a cameo in last season's finale, so it's also reassuring that he'll be returning to help steward Reacher's new silver screen outing.

Reacher season 2 cast

The fun thing about how Reacher's stories work is that you can only really be sure of one participant - Reacher himself. To that end, we know that Alan Ritchson will be in the show, for sure. We should see a return for his accomplice Neagley (Maria Sten), given she's a recurring character in Bad Luck and Trouble, too.

Also joining the show is the following list of new actors:

  • Serinda Swan
  • Ferdinand Kingsley
  • Rory Cochrane
  • Domenick Lombardozzi
  • Luke Bilyk
  • Dean McKenzie
  • Edsson Morales
  • Andres Collantes
  • Shannon Kook-Chun
  • Ty Victor Olsson
  • Josh Blacker
  • Al Sapienza

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