Jack Ryan is a fantastic character and is RIPE for a tremendous series. This is a decent start, but there are some very obvious flaws. First off, I'm glad they didn't turn him into another Jason Bourne, he's still just an office worker with some military training who can defend himself when he has to. I love the international espionage spycraft movies as it is, so this really is in my wheelhouse. However, has a fan of Clancy's novels (and a huge fan of the Jack Ryan films) I have quite a few problems with what's being done with the character of Greer. Making him a converted Muslim makes absolutely no sense for that character and does very little for the story of this first season. Last of all, episode 3 of this season was absolutely terrible. The Ryan/Greer storyline got maybe 5 minutes of screen time, meanwhile we have an entire episode about some disgusting drone operator? Pointless and boring. I would recommend this series to people, but will tell them to 100% skip that episode. It simply felt like filler, which REALLY doesn't make sense with this being an 8 episode season!

I was very excited for a Jack Ryan series and Krasinski is perfect in the part, but if we are doing 8 episodes a season, let's keep it tight and focused. I would like to see them just update one of the many Jack Ryan novels to modern day, there is still plenty of tension with Russia, I feel like it would fit right in. Keep doing the show, I hope it only gets better from here

I Watched “Tom Clancy’s” Jack Ryan on Amazon on the plane back from Europe. I Was shocked to find out that Jim Greer was Muslim and Jack Ryan only joined the CIA (in response to a French policewoman’s question as to how he could ever work for such a murderous organization) because it’s easier to essentially effect change from within than from outside.
In the eight episodes, we are shown the massive suffering of fleeing refugees and how they are all women and children - not the war aged men we know have flooded Europe. We are made sure to know we drone strike innocent Muslims. It is also implied (because we don’t already know) that all Muslims are not bad.

I wonder if Tom Clancy is rolling over in his grave. I read every single book of his and they were nothing but straight forward patriotic-esque novels. There was not one iota of SJW or any other movement implied or mentioned in his books.

The rewriting of our history books (and even fiction!) is just more “Pravda” from our leftist media oligarchs. Truly unbelievable.

I stopped watching after the 3rd episode. It seemed to be a Muslim apologetics show - father teaching his son to pray, various prayers at home and in the mosque, prayers for the dead, even Greer is a Muslim, and Muslim terrorists are only terrorists because of traumatic events in their past. On the other hand, Christianity is the only other religion mentioned and that was a short clip of the murder of a priest and using Jesus' and God's name in vain. I'm sorry, I'm not interested in watching a show that tries to put people who blew up embassies, flew planes into buildings, blew up our naval ships, have blown up various buildings in the US, killed their wives and daughters in a good light. As someone else said, woke gone wrong.

Seasons 1 and 2: Inspirational, dynamic, often intense, non-stop. The best part is the showing of how the opposing sides contain people driven by similar reasons.

In season 2 there were several characters introduced and I was getting a bit overloaded (binge watching might have been a factor). Season 1 was a breeze to follow. The last scene of Season 2, where things are about to wrap up, was a bit too smooth.

Although the character Jack Ryan is quite bright, as demonstrated well in season 1, that demonstration and his exceptional general knowledge was a bit lacking demonstrated in season 2. I wanted brilliance to be the demonstrated hero's strength.

Both of these seasons are definitely 4.8 star. . NickNameDrSciWayne

Great show!

Incredible Series!!

I was so excited for this! I counted down for a month and told people at work it looked like it was going to be great. I watched the first few episodes, and I think I’ve seen enough. What’s with the gratuitous sex scenes? Episode 3 is basically pornographic at times with a man watching and consenting to his wife having sex with a stranger just feet away. Full sex scene with undressing, boobs shown, grabbed, kissed. Not just a quick glimpse either. Plenty of attention on this for no good purpose. There are a lot of f bombs in episode 1. Lots of long and overly graphic close-ups of bloody bodies.

My only guess is that the directors and writers think they have to do this because that’s what HBO does; what the audience must demand now. Competing for Game of Thrones viewership I guess with random nudity/sex. The violence and some language was expected, but it can get bad. Yes, it is rated TV-MA, so I should have known, but pretty sure the series was promoted as TV-14? From other reviews, sounds like this was changed once it was released. I’ve decided to not watch it. Maybe with a filtered version on VidAngel (already available) or something like that, but I feel like that just support and validates the model.

The other thing that’s obvious from the get-go is that we’re expected to sympathize with the enemy. Lots of character development and backstory about why some brothers are leading a terrorist plot and killing American soldiers...guess why? Because of the Americans of course - we created them with our indiscriminate bomb dropping. It just seems that the writers have gone to great lengths to sympathize with America’s enemies in this story and put America in bad light. Lot’s of political undertones that are meant to challenge what role America has played in creating terrorists.

John Krazinski is great though and I thought the music and filming was also really good. Amd, at a high level, I liked the plot so far. I wish I could see where it goes, but I can’t. If a can expect the same sleeze and profanity. Too bad for me.

A series written by people who have no idea how things actually work in the real world with character names from a guy that was so specific about his research he wrote peer reviewed papers for military journals. I’ll keep it simple: Krasinski was an awful casting decision, making Admiral James Greer a lapsed Muslim, idiotic, his imam counselor a white guy (there’s not a lot of white, American imams) who sounds like the Catholic priest that Clancy would’ve written, Air Force grunts disobeying direct orders with ZERO repercussions, the Muslims are only bad because of bigotry and/or Israel (Israel fighting back against its attackers is the cause/motive for the villain), Jack Ryan has PTSD and needs a French female cop to coach him (at 30+) on how to talk to women...

It’s just poorly written, poorly plotted PC trash.