Right here’s the factor, Susan Duffy is one other a type of polarizing characters that followers both love or hate.
It’s develop into par for the course for Reacher (amongst many sequence), and typically the Duffy hate will be an excessive amount of.
Sure, her accent is as annoying as nails on a chalkboard and an fascinating character alternative. 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 wherein fortunate girl will get to climb that tree each season (giddy-up, girls, I really 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 lady entertained at any time when they’re onscreen.
Nonetheless, in terms of fleshing out characters even microscopically, Duffy is so frustratingly one-dimensional that it may typically be jarring in an in any other case robust season.
I sincerely hope none of you might be enjoying ingesting video games each time that girl utters the title “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 a teen lady 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 be able to save Teresa.
They’ve nailed that time residence at the least half a dozen occasions 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 may very well 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 someway felt her actions with Teresa mirrored his with Kohl.
Um, yeah, NO. Not even remotely near the identical state of affairs, sorry, Duffy, my lady.
However all season, we’ve been watching Duffy undermine her personal motivations when she’s principally placing everybody in danger and letting so many individuals die simply to avoid wasting one lady we solely simply discovered continues to be alive.
If your complete level is that Duffy is reckless, impulsive, a really misguided agent who desires to make up for putting Teresa in a horrible place and doubtlessly costing the younger girl her life, then persistently placing Reacher in danger, turning the opposite method as different our bodies rack up, contributing to Elliot’s tragically predictable dying, and never batting an eye fixed on the useless made/ATF agent isn’t the best way to go, no?
How a lot blood is Duffy okay with spilling to avoid wasting one lady? And if we’re studying that there’s trafficking occurring, 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 significantly. However even maintaining that in thoughts, Duffy’s slim 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 the whole lot of the investigation.
Even Elliot’s dying doesn’t change Duffy’s motivations or develop 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. A minimum of 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 really really feel the load of her dying, even when they did transfer on rapidly with that as nicely.
It’s unlucky that Duffy has made her whole persona 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’re feeling about Duffy? Let’s hear your ideas under!
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