Right here’s the factor, Susan Duffy is one other a type of polarizing characters that followers both love or hate.
It’s turn out to be par for the course for Reacher (amongst many sequence), and generally the Duffy hate will be an excessive amount of.
Sure, her accent is as annoying as nails on a chalkboard and an fascinating character selection. However alas, it will get folks speaking and makes her memorable, so it’s efficient in some regard.
And so far as Reacher’s “love curiosity” goes, the season hasn’t given us a lot to work with right here, predictably.
Whereas I’ve zero curiosity through which fortunate woman will get to climb that tree each season (giddy-up, women, I like that for you), I can nonetheless admit that they haven’t precisely performed into the love curiosity portion of this sequence nicely since Reacher Season 1‘s Roscoe.
However that’s neither right here nor there.
Duffy genuinely has some amusing moments, and he or she and Reacher play off each other nicely sufficient to maintain a woman entertained every time they’re onscreen.
Nonetheless, in relation to fleshing out characters even microscopically, Duffy is so frustratingly one-dimensional that it will probably generally be jarring in an in any other case sturdy season.
I sincerely hope none of you’re taking part in ingesting video games each time that lady utters the identify “Teresa.” You’d have higher luck recuperating from a Paulie proper hook than recovering from the hangover from that ingesting sport.
Duffy’s Teresa obsession is mind-numbingly irritating, and her stage of tunnel-vision is past comprehension and plausibility.
Duffy didn’t even give a rattling about Teresa when she was strongarming and blackmailing an adolescent woman to go undercover in a harmful operation, so why on earth ought to we care about her?
Duffy’s connection to Reacher throughout this whole case is the 2 collaborating so he can take out Quinn and she will save Teresa.
They’ve nailed that time dwelling at the very least half a dozen instances each episode, when Duffy whines about Teresa as a result of she must do one thing to assuage her personal guilt.
It’s really one thing that could possibly be fascinating by itself, if the present ever bothered to do extra with it. As an alternative, we had a poorly drawn parallel that didn’t work between Duffy and Reacher the place she one way or the other felt her actions with Teresa mirrored his with Kohl.
Um, yeah, NO. Not even remotely near the identical scenario, sorry, Duffy, my woman.
However all season, we’ve been watching Duffy undermine her personal motivations when she’s mainly placing everybody in danger and letting so many individuals die simply to avoid wasting one woman we solely simply came upon continues to be alive.
If your entire level is that Duffy is reckless, impulsive, a very misguided agent who desires to make up for putting Teresa in a horrible place and doubtlessly costing the younger lady her life, then persistently placing Reacher in danger, turning the opposite method as different our bodies rack up, contributing to Elliot’s tragically predictable demise, and never batting a watch on the lifeless made/ATF agent isn’t the way in which to go, no?
How a lot blood is Duffy okay with spilling to avoid wasting one woman? And if we’re studying that there’s trafficking taking place, do the others merely not matter?
It’s Reacher. The sequence is simply strong enjoyable, and we’re not meant to take a lot of it too severely. However even protecting that in thoughts, Duffy’s slender scope when driving ahead the plot is grating.
Her actions are sometimes incongruent with what’s behind her motivations. For somebody who loves her mentor a lot, it stays baffling that she nonetheless has a person 5 months shy of retirement within the thick of an unsanctioned investigation that might kill what stays of his profession or worse but finish his life.
And for a girl who knew that Elliot was a perpetual screwup and too inexperienced, it defied logic to maintain the rookie susceptible for error with their hostage for just about everything of the investigation.
Even Elliot’s demise doesn’t change Duffy’s motivations or broaden them. Her vengeance is about Teresa and nothing else.
It was the proper time for issues to shift and for the sequence to expound on Duffy a bit extra. At the least we hung out with and knew Elliot.
We don’t know something about Teresa. She didn’t get any background episodes or flashbacks to the diploma of Dominique Kohl, who left a stellar, lasting impression in a single episode.
Hell, even the maid/ATF agent was somebody we spent sufficient time with to truly really feel the burden of her demise, even when they did transfer on shortly with that as nicely.
It’s unlucky that Duffy has made her complete character obsessing over Teresa as a result of, sadly, I can’t deliver myself to care—which subsequently extends to Duffy, too.
Over to you, Reacher Fanatics. Are you sick of listening to about Teresa? How do you are feeling about Duffy? Let’s hear your ideas under!
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