Chris Pratt’s 'Terminal List' Franchise Finally Rivals ‘Reacher’ After Season 2 Release Date Reveal

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Published May 13, 2026, 2:52 PM EDT

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Chris Pratt's action thriller franchise on Prime Video can finally rival Alan Ritchson's popular Reacher series after its new season 2 date reveal. Reacher, based on the celebrated novels by Lee Child, has emerged as the premier action thriller franchise on Prime Video, thanks to its near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score of 96% and massive viewership across three seasons and counting. Reacher season 4 is already one of the most highly anticipated new releases of 2026, even though a specific release date has yet to be announced.

However, now that Pratt's The Terminal List season 2 is officially set for an October 2026 release, the series can consider itself a full-bodied "one-person army" franchise like Reacher. The Terminal List did not achieve the instant acclaim that Reacher did after its celebrated first season, even though it earned an enormous 1.6 billion minutes viewed in its first full week. Poor critical reception certainly threw a wrench in The Terminal List maturing as a proper streaming franchise, but the successful launch of last year's prequel spin-off series Dark Wolf starring Taylor Kitsch proved that the series had much more left in the tank.

Chris Pratt's Terminal List Franchise Can Finally Compete With Reacher

Reacher has been the #1 most-watched and critically acclaimed action thriller series on Prime Video since its 2022 premiere, giving birth to one of Hollywood's biggest rising stars, Alan Ritchson. Now that The Terminal List season 2's release date is officially set, the Chris Pratt-led franchise can finally begin to rival Reacher as Prime Video's most celebrated and popular action franchise. After a divisive first season and a redemptive spinoff series, The Terminal List (which is also based on a bestselling book series) can finally compete as an elite franchise on Prime Video with Alan Ritchson's Reacher.

On paper, The Terminal List has everything that a globally successful action thriller franchise needs: an A-list Hollywood star and executive producer, a proven and celebrated book series as source material, and a large budget to bring the full extent of the original story to life on screen. It also has a impressively strong Rotten Tomatoes audience score of 94%, which is actually significantly higher than Reacher's overall RT audience score of 80% for all three seasons. If its critic score on RT wasn't a shockingly low 42%, The Terminal List would be in serious contention for one of the best Prime Video shows ever made.

The Terminal List Could Run For At Least 7 Seasons & More Spin-Offs

There are currently seven books in Jack Carr's Terminal List book series featuring former Navy SEAL James Reece, the first of which paved the way for the first season of the original series. Against all odds, Reece, played by Pratt, must uncover a complex conspiracy led by his own military and government after his entire team is ambushed due to what is presumably bad intel. Reece is made out to be delusional and even a threat to his own country, becoming a fugitive while also seeking vengeance after an unthinkable tragedy.

In The Terminal List season 2, based on Carr's second novel, True Believer, Reece is in hiding after the events of the first book/series, when a new threat emerges that risks his safety. After True Believer, five additional books have been published that the Prime Video franchise can adapt, including book 5, In the Blood, a globe-trotting sniper story, and book 6, Only the Dead, about unforeseen threats to the U.S. What's more, Dark Wolf is set up for a second season, even though that hasn't been officially confirmed, and Carr's most recent novel, Cry Havoc, introduces James' father Tom Reece, expanding the Terminal List universe even further.

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While Carr and his Terminal List franchise have dozens of books and many years to catch up with Lee Child's 30 full-length Jack Reacher novels, this new season 2 announcement is the best sign that the series has ever gotten of it being a legitimate, long-standing Prime Video action thriller franchise.