'Reacher' Season 4 Officially Hits 66 Million Viewers as Alan Ritchson Films Season 5

2026 has been a benchmark year for Alan Ritchson, who has fully come into his own as one of the biggest action stars in all of Hollywood. At the start of the year, Ritchson took his talents to Netflix to star in the fan-favorite sci-fi thriller, War Machine. After the movie earned nearly 140 million views during its initial viewing period on Netflix — enough to be crowned one of the platform’s top 10 most-watched hits of all time — the streamer announced that a sequel to the film is in the works. Ritchson also starred in two new action movies over the summer, Motor City and Runner. Neither film broke any records at the box office, but both have had impressive runs of success on VOD and streaming platforms.

However, for Ritchson, none of these new movies have done as much for his stardom as Reacher, the hit Prime Video series based on the novels written by Lee Child. Prime Video released the first season of Reacher alongside The Terminal List Season 1 back in 2022, and while Chris Pratt‘s new action series just returned for its second season, Prime Video has managed to release four full seasons of Reacher in the same amount of time. News broke this afternoon that Reacher Season 4, which ran from August to the middle of September, has amassed over 66 million views since it began streaming on Prime Video. This comes in the middle of Ritchson shooting the fifth season of Reacher, which was confirmed months before the Season 4 premiere. Prime Video is officially doubling down on the future of its biggest action series.

Four action series. One of them is built around exactly the way you
handle pressure, people, and a room that has just gone very quiet. Here is where you would survive
the trilogy, and probably headline it.

You are precision with a grudge. You don’t posture, you don’t
escalate, and you don’t warn anybody twice. That is exactly why the people who know you are
so careful never to be the reason you start.

• The Wick films run on discipline: an underworld with actual etiquette, a hero who
  honours every rule of it, and a world that unravels the instant someone breaks one
  against him.
• You share that quality. You are extraordinarily reasonable right up to the line, and
  then completely immovable past it.
• Focus, commitment and sheer will. You’d be the one carrying grief through three sequels
  and turning it into technique rather than noise.
• People wouldn’t call you dangerous. They’d say your name quietly and let that do the
  work.

You understand the thing the whole franchise is secretly about:
the cars are spectacular, but the crew is the point. You collect people, you keep them, and
you’d drive through a building for any one of them.

• This series went from street racing to orbit without ever changing its actual subject,
  because loyalty scales and plot doesn’t have to.
• You have the same instinct. You build a family out of whoever turns up, and then you
  defend it past the point of reason.
• You’d thrive here because the franchise rewards exactly your strengths: warmth, nerve,
  an absolute refusal to leave anyone behind, and a relaxed relationship with physics.
• The mission can wait. The barbecue cannot.

You over-prepare and then take the dangerous part yourself
anyway. It looks like control, but it’s really responsibility. You have never worked out how
to ask somebody else to carry the risk.

• This is the franchise of the plan that collapses on schedule: the team, the mask, the
  rooftop, and the one person sprinting flat out because sprinting is all that’s left.
• You share that refusal to accept an outcome. Told the odds, you treat them as an
  administrative error.
• You’d thrive here because these films reward competence and loyalty in equal measure.
  The mission matters, but nobody on the team gets left on the wrong side of a door.
• Some people delegate the cliff. You have never once been that person.

You are not the most trained person in the building, the best
equipped, or the one anybody would have picked. You are simply the one still standing at the
end, which turns out to be the only qualification that matters.

• Die Hard invented the modern action hero by making him mortal: outgunned, out-planned,
  bleeding, and extremely funny about it.
• You share that stubbornness. Adversity doesn’t make you noble, it makes you sarcastic,
  and then it makes you unstoppable.
• You’d thrive here because these films reward improvisation and nerve over preparation,
  and you’ve never had the luxury of preparing anyway.
• You didn’t want any of this. You just declined to be the person who let it happen.

Here’s What We Know About Seasons 5 and 6 of ‘Reacher’

Prime Video is in the middle of shooting Reacher Season 5 right now, which will be based on the book Make Me, the 20th novel in Lee Child’s Jack Reacher series. Prime Video has also renewed Reacher for Season 6, but the streamer has to get through work on Season 5 first before the first details about Season 6 are released — there’s been no official announcement on which book in Child’s series will inspire the events of Reacher Season 6. Ritchson will continue to star as the titular action hero in the next two seasons of Reacher.

Check out the first four seasons of Reacher on Prime Video and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Seasons 5 and 6, as well as Alan Ritchson’s other projects.