Published Jun 23, 2026, 12:00 PM EDT
Adam Blevins began working in the entertainment industry in 2022 as a Staff Writer for Agents of Fandom, where he progressed to Senior Editor and interviewed talent from Marvel Studios, House of the Dragon, and Planet of the Apes. He joined Collider as a News Author in April 2024, was promoted to a Senior position in December 2024, and has written over 3,000 articles for the site, including exclusives relating to Avengers: Doomsday, The Penguin, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, and more. He primarily writes about the latest box office numbers and the hottest movies and TV shows on streaming, while also covering superhero and sci-fi news. He has completed a set visit for The Chosen and even has several months of experience writing Gaming Features at ScreenRant. You can find him on X, LinkedIn, and Muckrack.
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Prime Video has had plenty of big-budget action shows emerge in the last few years, but none have been as popular as Reacher, starring Alan Ritchson. Prime Video has already confirmed that Reacher Season 4 is on the way before the end of this year, and as if that wasn’t enough for fans, the streamer has also already picked up the show for Season 5. Reacher has become so popular that it has Prime Video and all the other big streaming services in the world searching for shows to duplicate its success. Netflix has settled on The Night Agent as its Reacher replacement, while Peacock has The Day of the Jackal as its dupe. Back at Prime Video, though, there’s another action show even more methodical than Reacher that fans can’t stop watching.
Back at the end of 2024, Prime Video debuted the first season of Cross, the Aldis Hodge-led detective series that was picked up for Season 2. The show went on hiatus in 2025, but it returned for Season 2 at the start of 2026, even adding TV icon Matthew Lillard to the cast in a key role. Prime Video wasted no time renewing Cross for Season 3, and while it’s still unclear at this time when the next batch of episodes will be released, the show has resumed building out its ensemble around Hodge. Prime Video announced this afternoon that long-time Hellboy actor Ron Perlman has joined the cast of Cross Season 3 as Herschel Zamora, a police officer who is referred to Dr. Cross for therapy after a string of troubling work-related incidents. It doesn’t take Cross long to realize that Zamora may be hiding something deep beneath the surface.
Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.
Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.
Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.
Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.
Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.
Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.
Cross is based on the series of acclaimed crime novels by James Patterson, and it follows a Washington detective who solves mysterious murders while diving into his patients’ psyche. Before Cross, Aldis Hodge made a name for himself starring opposite Dwayne Johnson in the 2022 DC superhero movie, Black Adam, which also features Pierce Brosnan. Hodge is quietly becoming one of the biggest action stars in the world, and he’s now been tapped to star with Jake Gyllenhaal in the sequel to his Prime Video original Road House movie.
Check out the first two seasons of Cross on Prime Video and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Season 2.
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