Hi. I’ve been watching Reacher a lot lately, but I’m looking for more vigilante shows or crime-fighting shows. It’d be great if it was about fighting nazis or taking down the alt-right, but regular crime-fighting is alright too. Something like The Boys. Here are some of the shows I watch.
The Hunting Party Reacher Cross Rizzoli & Isles
You might like Burn Notice, depending on your tolerance for network television tropes of the mid-aughts. It’s a “monster of the week” format, rather than the serialized approach of Reacher, but it typically includes a scene or two referencing the season arc in any given episode, so you still feel like the narrative is advancing, even if the majority of the episode was a side quest.
The gist is that a US government spy gets “burned” and turned loose in Miami. He, and the few contacts he has who will still speak with him (which include his mother, an ex-gf with a bombastic personality, and Bruce Campbell at the height of his smarmy powers), attempt to figure out who burned him, while also getting wrapped up in “favors” for various folks about town that inevitably wind up more complicated than was initially let on. Antagonists run the gamut from international terrorists to con artists who target the geriatric (it is, after all, set in Florida).
It’s not high art, but it’s got a winning cast, decent action (for network television), and, on occasion, I think some pretty clever solutions for problems which leverage the “spycraft” gimmick. Worth a shot.
I used to watch one with Adam West and Burt Ward playing the vigilantes, but the grit and realism of that show got to me after a while.
I was on the edge of my seat watching Adam try to get rid of a bomb.
Daredevil
There’s an alright one about jews hunting down nazis post ww2. Called “Hunters” I havent watched it since it came out so ymmv. There’s also at least one episode of Letterkenny about beating up the alt right.
OK, not a show and you may not have time but I gotta gush on this web series I picked up here on Lemmy. I’m not even through it but it has serious The Boys vibes. It’s a written web serial called Worm.
I know I know, you asked for shows, but it’s just…so good…and in the superhero genre! Dark and gritty in the same vain as Watchmen and The Boys…I don’t know. Figured I just put this out there.
Person of Interest?
All of the JoJo bizxare adventures from season 2 to present are crime fighting.
The dubs are excellent. They are also a little campy. (Okay actually pretty campy)
It’s anime but hear me out. It’s very entertaining even if you aren’t a big anime fan. Cause I’m not.
They are fun and ridiculous.
The true detective series is probably closer to what you are looking for.
Ive liked all seasons. Each season is its own story.
The Watchmen series was pretty good
