5 Things I Know: 'Reacher' is coming back and we're all better for it

Serve me up an 80s action drama with some wit and humor any time of the year, but especially in December.

Everyone needs a lift in life. The day-to-day adulting requirements go hand in hand with stress, especially during the holiday season. Thanksgiving and Christmas bash the last month of the year together into a dead sprint, so we all need a break or bright spot. Enter Reacher on Prime.

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Say what you want about serious movies and shows, the ones designed to depress us while placing our minds in a sense of filmmaking awe--but my goodness, a fresh action flick or series is like a drug that doesn’t physically enter the body. Alan Ritchson’s loner steps into predicaments and heroes his way through an army of goons, and the audience gobbles it up like pie.