As we anticipate the return of the hit CBS drama Tracker, showrunner Elwood Reid has teased that the next season is set to dive a bit deeper into Reenie Greene’s (Fiona Rene) world beyond Colter Shaw (Justin Hartley). Fans who felt like Reenie’s time with Leo Sharf (Pej Vahdat) or the growing pains of her new law practice didn’t get enough screen time in Season 2 will certainly be happy with this Season 3 development. And boy, is it about time that the show takes a deeper interest in one of its biggest characters.
‘Tracker’ Needs To Expand on Reenie’s Law Practice in Season 3
No matter how you look at it, Tracker isn’t exactly set up to be an ensemble show. Sure, there are other characters in the narrative besides Colter, and they certainly help to make the show stronger, but the show is very much driven by the lead and his thrilling adventures. Nevertheless, the second most important character on the show, Reenie, has a lot of potential worth exploring beyond the standard episode structure. Whether it’s her growing law practice, her personal life, or her mental state after nearly being killed at the end of Season 2’s penultimate episode, “Rules of the Game,” it would be great to dive a bit deeper into what makes Reenie tick. Additionally, Tracker should consider spending more time in a courtroom environment, which is something we haven’t seen hardly seen at all since the series began. While we’ve always been told how good a lawyer Reenie is, it’s not something we’ve actually seen a lot of ourselves.
Considering how Reenie conscripted Velma Bruin (Abby McEnany) into building her new practice, the Season 2 opener suggested that the show was going to expand on that a bit further. However, in true Tracker fashion, it never did. It’s no secret that the show often sets up ideas that take considerable time to pay off, and whether that’s due to the series’ distinct procedural format or a plot to build more anticipation by the writers, it can grow quite tiresome. Perhaps more time with Reenie in Season 3 would also give the show some time to explain how she can possibly be practicing law in every state where Colter finds himself in a legal bind. All of those individual state bar dues must come at a hefty cost, and although this is a television series that certainly asks us to suspend our disbelief at times, that’s one question that has real-life lawyers scratching their heads.
There’s also the matter of Reenie and Colter’s will-they/won’t-they dynamic. The show has continuously teased that these two may be a thing — if not now, then possibly in the future — though never fully committed to the idea. It’s clear that they care deeply about each other, and since we’ve already seen Colter’s side of the story, this may open the door for us to better understand how Reenie feels about her closest guy friend as well. Yes, we know, she’s still dating Elliot Rusch (Michael Rady), but after everything that went down with Sharf in the penultimate episode (a man who Elliot recommended Reenie to), we have to wonder how long that fling will last.
‘Tracker’ Needs To Keep Colter Shaw at the Center of the Story
Of course, the only potential danger of Tracker giving Reenie more to do going forward is that it may inadvertently push Colter’s adventures to the wayside, and thus risk losing sight of what made Tracker great in the first place. If Tracker Season 3 can incorporate more of Reenie’s plot into whatever Colter is doing, using it to complement the main ideas of each episode rather than becoming a serialized story separate from the main narrative, then this has the potential to enhance the series. Even a one-and-done Reenie-centric episode where Colter is more of a side character wouldn’t be a bad way to go, so long as the overall flow of the series doesn’t drastically change. Tracker works because the show is so largely focused on Colter and those he meets across the country, so deviating from that too much would likely alienate certain audiences, but that doesn’t mean the show can’t do more with this character. She was created for the show for a reason, so Tracker should lean into that!
Whether you first saw her here on Tracker or were a fan from her Fire Country days, Fiona Rene is a great actress, and it would be to the show’s benefit if they leaned more into her dramatic range. After all, her time as Reenie has certainly made the show better as a whole, and while she and Colter seemed to spend more time together in the first season than the second, maybe Season 3’s push to give her more material to work with will allow for more adventures between them. Though, we shouldn’t hold out too much hope. After all, last season did end with Reenie nearly getting killed in the line of duty, so it’s unlikely that she’s going to want to throw herself into harm’s way ever again — at least if she has anything to say about it. But that doesn’t mean she can’t still be more involved with whatever Colter is doing next. However Tracker Season 3 decides to utilize its female lead next season, hopefully Reenie Greene will be given more meaty material to devour going forward.
