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Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

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Generally favorable reviews based on 38 Critic Reviews

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Prime Video | AMAZON | Release Date: August 31, 2018

Summary: John Krasinski takes over the mantle as young CIA analyst Jack Ryan for the Amazon series.

Genre(s): Drama, Action & Adventure, Suspense

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65

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Critic Reviews

91

Colorado Springs Gazette

Terry Terrones

Aug 21, 2018

Season 1 Review: Showrunners Carlton Cuse and Graham Roland have perfectly reimagined Ryan for modern audiences. They certainly couldn’t have found a better actor to play him. Read full review

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Wall Street Journal

John Anderson

Aug 30, 2018

Season 1 Review: It’s a smart show, for all its huffing and puffing. Mr. Krasinski might even grow on you. Read full review

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Paste Magazine

Trent Moore

Dec 21, 2022

Season 3 Review: If nothing else, the show is a testament to the fact that Krasinski is a bona fide action movie star, an impressive evolution from his days wooing the receptionist on The Office. Jack Ryan has been the perfect vehicle to showcase just that, but that ride might be starting to run out of gas as it nears the finish line. Read full review

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The A.V. Club

Josh Modell

Oct 30, 2019

Season 2 Review: Jack Ryan is fun and forgettable, exciting and predictable. Read full review

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Slant Magazine

Michael Haigis

Aug 28, 2018

Season 1 Review: Despite paying cursory service to humanizing its principal characters, Jack Ryan is mostly interested in a battle between broad notions of good and evil. It thrives on the tension of Jack's chess match with bin Suleiman, reducing an entire nation's efforts to combat terror to a personal beef between two archetypes. Read full review

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Collider Chase Hutchinson

Dec 19, 2022

Season 3 Review: For all the ways the conclusion strives to say something more, it comes far too late. It isn’t that Jack Ryan was ever pulling any punches, more that it just never was actually attempting to swing that hard, to begin with. Read full review

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Slant Magazine

Michael Haigis

Oct 28, 2019

Season 2 Review: The season’s length strains the effectiveness of its throwback sensibilities, passable action choreography, and formulaic characters—attributes which may be better suited for standalone feature films. Read full review

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nightstalker930

Jan 12, 2020

As long time reader, watcher and ETC. of both Tom Clancy and The Jack Ryan Series let me say that this TV shows is a fantastic take on a classic! Can't wait for more, and well worth the subscription!

p.s. the same to be a lot of hate for season 2 I loved it I thought both season 1 and 2As long time reader, watcher and ETC. of both Tom Clancy and The Jack Ryan Series let me say that this TV shows is a fantastic take on a classic! Can't wait for more, and well worth the subscription!

p.s. the same to be a lot of hate for season 2 I loved it I thought both season 1 and 2 absolutely fantastic can't wait to season 3… Expand

7 of 8 users found this helpful71

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Mandlebalm

Nov 8, 2019

Jack Ryan is totally awesome. Grade-A, prime rib, CIA suspense thriller, with just the right amount of light-hearted quips from Krasinski to stop the rats gnawing at your guts from nervousness at what will happen next.

5 of 7 users found this helpful52

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tarekali

Jan 4, 2023

It’s pretty ironic that the Russian geopolitical ambitions outlined in this 3rd season have come to fruition in Ukraine, and are playing out in a most horrendous manner with lasting effects for generations. Nevertheless, it is always the same old motivations, insidious desires to resurrectIt’s pretty ironic that the Russian geopolitical ambitions outlined in this 3rd season have come to fruition in Ukraine, and are playing out in a most horrendous manner with lasting effects for generations. Nevertheless, it is always the same old motivations, insidious desires to resurrect failed empires and glory, bruised egos assuaged in the blinding flash of nuclear fire, in the shattering flames of war. Indeed as Michael Caine said, some men want to see the world burn. Will we ever be able to rid ourselves of the threat of megalomaniacs who do not understand the terrible price of war? The old guard undertook those horrors and carried the rotting conscience, thus they act as a check and balance against the stupidity of younger fools, but alas these are dying out too, and with it the firewalls. This is a return to form after an insipid 2nd season. Jack Ryan is best when the entire world is at stake, this is undiluted Tom Clancy. The city-hopping espionage, shady assassinations, diabolical alliances, the battle of wills to see who flinches first, who takes the bait and calls the bluff. This is perfect spy craft and drama. It was amazing to see Ryan back in action as a marine - people forget he is not just a desk jockey. The teeth-grinding tension of episode 6 rivals the best movies of the Jack Ryan saga, mirroring Sum of all Fears. The arc of Luka Goncharov played so well by James Cosmo is absolutely brilliant. A loyal soldier haunted by the horrible crimes of his past, driven to seek absolution and redemption. His cold precision and iron will make for the most terrifying of spymasters and patriots. His speech in the last moments of this amazing season is inspiring and memorable, at the same level as Luthen Rael’s soliloquy in Andor.… Expand

6 of 7 users found this helpful61

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Cidiust

Dec 30, 2022

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Ok! first season was the bomb.. second season wasn't that bad. As a Venezuelan, I was laughing from all those Colombians faking and forcing the accents. Don't get me wrong, slang was on point xD, but the accent ("el cantao" as we say) was sooo hard to hear. Also, I hate how no movies or TV series dont know how depicts Caracas. Yes! we have "ranchos" (favelas) but its not the whole city and there is no way a "gringo" will be able to step in to those zones. Buildings are missing xD, Also Caracas is a valley so its suppose to have a mountain that loops around the city (google it). I love how Reyes sounds like Maduro xD, a very polite Maduro.… Expand

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MicLes

Feb 16, 2023

I would rate seasons 1 and 3 as quite decent and entertaining, but consider season 2 not worth watching at all. Season 1 - Some very interesting concepts. It touches on nuances around terrorism, including from where it is born. It also portrays a US drone pilot riddled by the guilt ofI would rate seasons 1 and 3 as quite decent and entertaining, but consider season 2 not worth watching at all. Season 1 - Some very interesting concepts. It touches on nuances around terrorism, including from where it is born. It also portrays a US drone pilot riddled by the guilt of killing faraway unknown people. All around interesting. Season 2 - It was like a 1980 action series, where patriotic propaganda is more important then making sense. It no longer felt like a somewhat grounded spy show. The last episodes of that season are ridiculous. Season 3 - While portraying a caricature of an evil mafia-like Kremlin, it is a good spy show, and oddly grounded in international politics that turned out to be quite close to reality. It also just feels better directed and better written. The actors are also just all-around great.… Expand

3 of 4 users found this helpful31

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x2OhSeven

Jan 4, 2023

Absolute meh show. Good enough for background noise but that’s about it. The acting is average, the storylines are vanilla and the script teeters on absurd.

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enut_butter

Dec 24, 2022

I don’t know what happened to the new season. It used to be a decent show, not great, but it was okay. Now it’s heavily, HEAVILY feminized like most modern tv and the writing has gone from decent to atrocious. Did they lose their writers room? In any case, avoid like the plague.

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 3

73
- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: December 21, 2022
- No episode information is currently available for this season
Season 2

56
- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: October 31, 2019
Season 1

66
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: August 31, 2018