Congratulations, you have discovered what appealing to the masses means.

This is an airport book series that has a good adaptation. It's fun to watch. It's not high brow art. It's a show where big competent man hurts bad people in the name of justice. It's a very boomer coded show except for the fact that Reacher is especially virtuous. Media like this has always thrived, and has for hundreds to thousands of years.