If I had to choose my favorite Reacher villain it would definitely be Xavier Quinn (even though he had the most underrated character arc) 

When I first started watching Reacher Season 3, I wasn't expecting it to feature such hardened and sinister villains as Xavier Quinn and Paulie. While the previous two seasons of Reacher presented rather lacklustre antagonists, it seems to me that the third season of the Prime Video show tried its best to settle the score on this account.

Xavier Quinn, played by Brian Tee, wasn't simply a morally exhausted arms trafficker. He did prove to be the toughest villain to ever stand against Alan Ritchson on Reacher. I believe the future seasons of the show will have quite a hard time matching up to the high bar set by Quinn and Paulie.

Xavier Quinn is the most sinister Reacher villain

The first two seasons of the Prime Video show had such villains that never seemed to pose a mortal threat to the titular protagonist. While the first season's villain, Kline, was mostly missing from the narrative, the second season's Langston was far more accommodating in giving warnings before he made his final move.

Compared to them, Brian Tee's Xavier Quinn is a former military intelligence officer turned arms trafficker with the physical and mental fortitude to take on Alan Ritchson head-on in battle. Quinn has the means and the weapons at his disposal to pose a serious threat to the protagonist.

Reacher Season 3 upped the ante further when it presented Quinn as the most well-developed villain on the show in terms of characterization. It is a known fact that the Lee Child novels depicted the villains in a one-dimensional manner.

When it came to Quinn, not only is he an ear-slicing psychopath, but one who dances to the beats of Give It Up by KC and the Sunshine Band during the birthday party on the third season's finale episode. This is one villain to reckon with indeed, as Neagley famously remarked:

"These aren't counterfeiters in Margrave or ex-cops in New York. Quinn and his men are trained soldiers with a stockpile of badass guns that could rip us in half."

Alan Ritchson opens up about Reacher

Ritchson sat down with British GQ Magazine for an exclusive interview during the course of which he shared his candid insights about his character and the Prime Video show in general. When asked about the reason behind the show's success, Ritchson opined:

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"It's confounding. The readership of the books is an unexpected demographic: just as many women read these books as men. There was an interesting article about how people say “men want to be him and women want to sleep with him”, but there’s an independence and freedom to Reacher that women clearly want, too. We assume freedom is a male mentality, but a lot of women share the same desires. I guess part of the success is that there was wish fulfilment for a lot more people than first expected."

All seasons of Reacher are available on Prime Video.

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