Review - The Terminal List - True Believer - Prime

The long-awaited Season 2—True Believer—of The Terminal List finally made its premiere on Prime on October 21.

I imagine all who were fans of the 2022 The Terminal List were glued to their TV sets as they binge-watched the 8 episodes on Prime.

True Believer picks up where the first action-thriller  series ended with James Reece still hallucinating on events and people in his life. He’s on a sailboat in the ocean and one gets the feeling he’s wondering why he should go on living.

For this series, they seem to be taking Jack Carr’s books in order. The first season was from the book, The Terminal List. This second season is from the book, True Believer.

The third season if it happens will be based on the third book, Savage Son. As a reader, I love it when something like this happens which is very rare.

 WHAT’S TRUE BELIEVER ABOUT

Reece finished his Terminal List, but he may also be terminal, but he’s not dead yet. He does his best to disappear and find some kind of life, but  acts of terrorism and the CIA pull him back to do what he does best: hunt terrorists.

TRUE BELIEVER CAST

You’ll see some familiar faces from The Terminal List and also from Dark Wolf, the Prequel Spin-off starring Taylor Kitsch.

In the order of their roles, here’s the Cast:

• Chris Pratt as James Reece

• Constance Wu as Katie Buranek

• Taylor Kitsch as Ben Edwards

• Tom Hopper as Faife Hastings (Raife Hastings)

• Dar Salim as Mohammed Farooq

• Gabriel Luna as Freddy Strain

• Luke Hemsworth as Jules Landry

• Riley Keough as Lauren Reece

• Arlo Mertz as Lucy Reece

• Jeanne Tripplehorn as Lorraine Hartley

• Costa Ronin as Vasili Andrenov

• Alexis Louder as Nicole Deptul

MY THOUGHTS

If you like realistic action, charismatic characters, strongly plotted stories, watch TRUE BELIEVER. If you have not seen THE TERMINAL LIST yet, start with it. 

It gives emotional resonance to the characters and you’ll understand Reece’s motivation, his character, and his sense of honor and brotherhood.

I really liked True Believer, but it wasn’t as emotionall wrenching as The Terminal List until the end when one death affected me so strongly that I cried as if I’d known the soldier.

 TAKEAWAY TRUTH

 No doubt about it, Jack Carr is a storyteller who intimately knows what he writes about.

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