Big guy, small town, someone’s about to have a very bad week.
If Alan Ritchson’s Reacher has you hooked on watching an oversized ex-military drifter solve a small town’s worst secrets with his fists and a library card, you already know the formula works. Smart investigation, no-nonsense violence, and a hero who never backs down from a fight he didn’t start. Once you’ve caught up on all three seasons, the wait for more feels endless. Here are 7 TV shows like Reacher to fill the gap, whether you came for the mystery-solving, the ex-military backbone, or just watching a righteous guy dismantle bad people one town at a time.
1. Tracker
Genre: Action Mystery Drama | Year: 2024–present | Cast: Justin Hartley, Fiona Rene, Robin Weigert, Eric Graise | Where to Watch: Paramount+, Netflix
If you want the closest thing to Reacher currently airing, start here. Tracker follows Colter Shaw, a survivalist who drifts from town to town living out of his truck, taking on reward jobs that always turn into something bigger and darker than the missing-persons case he signed up for. Swap the military background for a childhood spent training in the wilderness, and you’ve basically got the same setup: a self-sufficient outsider with a strict personal code who can’t help getting tangled in a town’s buried secrets. It’s based on Jeffrey Deaver’s Colter Shaw novels, and it plays out almost episode-for-episode like a case-of-the-week version of Reacher’s mystery structure.
2. Jack Ryan
Genre: Spy Thriller Drama | Year: 2018–2023 | Cast: John Krasinski, Wendell Pierce, Michael Kelly, Abbie Cornish | Where to Watch: Prime Video
Jack Ryan trades small-town diners for CIA briefing rooms, but the core appeal is the same: a capable, principled guy who keeps getting pulled off the sidelines and into missions way above his pay grade. John Krasinski’s Ryan is more analyst than brawler compared to Reacher, relying on instincts and intelligence work as much as physical force, but the show delivers the same steady drip of global conspiracies and high-stakes confrontations. If the appeal of Reacher for you is watching one guy consistently be the smartest person in the room while bullets fly, this scratches that itch with a bigger budget and a bigger map.
3. The Terminal List
Genre: Action Thriller | Year: 2022 | Cast: Chris Pratt, Constance Wu, Taylor Kitsch, Jai Courtney | Where to Watch: Prime Video
This one leans harder into the revenge-thriller side of the Reacher formula. Chris Pratt plays a former Navy SEAL who returns home from a botched mission only to discover the official story doesn’t add up, and starts working his way methodically through everyone responsible. It’s less mystery-of-the-week and more single-minded manhunt, but the DNA is unmistakably Reacher-adjacent: a highly trained ex-military protagonist, a conspiracy bigger than it first appears, and violence delivered with total confidence. If Reacher’s military backstory and Ritchson’s blunt-force approach to problem-solving is what you show up for, this one goes even darker.
4. Bosch
Genre: Crime Drama | Year: 2014–2021 (plus Bosch: Legacy, 2022–present) | Cast: Titus Welliver, Jamie Hector, Amy Aquino | Where to Watch: Prime Video, Freevee
Trade the drifting for a badge, and Harry Bosch is basically what Reacher would look like if he’d stayed in one department instead of one town. He’s an LAPD homicide detective with his own moral code, a deep distrust of bureaucracy, and a habit of bending rules when the department’s version of justice moves too slowly for his taste. The show is built on genuinely well-plotted procedural mysteries rather than pure action, but Bosch’s stubborn, principled approach to getting the job done regardless of who it inconveniences will feel instantly familiar to Reacher fans.
5. Justified
Genre: Crime Drama | Year: 2010–2015 | Cast: Timothy Olyphant, Walton Goggins, Joelle Carter | Where to Watch: Hulu
Deputy US Marshal Raylan Givens is every bit as sharp, fearless, and allergic to bureaucracy as Jack Reacher, just relocated to rural Kentucky and given a badge instead of a duffel bag. He’s a modern-day gunslinger who enforces the law his own way, navigating corrupt local politics and criminal families while trading some of the best dialogue on television with his longtime rival, Boyd Crowder. If what hooks you about Reacher is the slow-burn small-town tension building toward an inevitable showdown, Justified does that better than almost anything else on this list.
6. Banshee
Genre: Action Crime Drama | Year: 2013–2016 | Cast: Antony Starr, Ivana Milicevic, Ulrich Thomsen | Where to Watch: Max
Banshee swaps Reacher’s ex-military drifter for an ex-con who steals the identity of a murdered sheriff and settles into a small Pennsylvania town, only to find the place hiding just as much violence and corruption as the criminal underworld he left behind. It’s the pulpiest, most brutally choreographed show on this list, with fight scenes that rival Reacher’s for sheer physical intensity. If the appeal of Reacher is a stranger walking into a town, immediately clocking that something’s wrong, and handling it with his fists, Banshee delivers that exact rhythm episode after episode.
7. The Night Agent
Genre: Spy Action Thriller | Year: 2023–present | Cast: Gabriel Basso, Luciane Buchanan, Fola Evans-Akingbola | Where to Watch: Netflix
The Night Agent moves the action from small towns to Washington conspiracy territory, but keeps the same backbone: a capable, low-level operative who stumbles into a plot far bigger than his job description and has to out-think and outfight people with far more resources than he has. It’s twistier and more paranoid than Reacher, built around a slow unraveling of who can actually be trusted, but the show’s commitment to a relentlessly likable, competent lead carrying the whole thing on his back is exactly what makes Reacher work too.