Reacher stands as one of Prime Video’s top flagship series. The action-packed show draws from Lee Child’s popular novels and features breakout action star Alan Ritchson, who has quickly become one of the most in-demand names in the genre. You can also catch him in his latest Netflix sci-fi thriller, War Machine. One of the key novels that inspired Lee Child while creating Jack Reacher was Frederick Forsyth’s The Day of the Jackal, originally published in 1971 and turned into a feature film just two years later. In 2024, however, Peacock reimagined The Day of the Jackal as a new TV series starring Eddie Redmayne (Fantastic Beasts) and Lashana Lynch (Captain Marvel). The series was met with strong critical praise, leading Peacock to quickly renew it for a second season.
Critic Jeff Ewing reviewed the series for Collider back at the end of 2024, and he agreed with the positive sentiment of most other critics, calling it a “tense and well-crafted update of a spy thriller.” He also said that the show “fits nicely into very contemporary conversations around global inequality and the lack of financial transparency that facilitates it,” and “capably provokes notions of a very believable contemporary underbelly of massively powerful players in our world, adding to both stakes and tension as the cat-and-mouse hunt between Bianca and the Jackal builds to a crescendo.” News broke earlier this year that production had finally begun on *The Day of the Jackal *Season 2, which has led more fans to check out the show.* The Day of the Jackal* is not only back in the Peacock top 10 in America, but it’s also in the VOD top 10 in several countries around the world on Apple TV.
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
The Day of the Jackal Season 1 stars Eddie Redmayne as The Jackal, Lashana Lynch as Bianca Pullman, Eleanor Matsuura as Zina Jonsone, and Chukwudi Iwuji as Osita Halcrow. The official synopsis reads as follows:
“The Jackal is an elusive assassin who makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. He soon meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer who tracks him down in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe.”
Plot details about The Day of the Jackal Season 2 are being kept under wraps, and likely won’t be made available until Peacock begins officially promoting the show’s return.
Check out the first season of The Day of the Jackal on Peacock in America and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Season 2.
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