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- Prime Video
- Aug 31, 2018
- Prime Video
- Aug 31, 2018
- Prime Video
- Aug 31, 2018
- Prime Video
- Aug 31, 2018
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 28 Critic Reviews
66
64% Positive
18 Reviews
18 Reviews
36% Mixed
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 28 Critic Reviews
66
64% Positive
18 Reviews
18 Reviews
36% Mixed
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
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.
The sequences in the field often falter when depicting action: The explosions and combat, despite the show’s big budget, can come off confusing and underwhelming. But Ryan, feeling his way through situations he never encountered behind the desk, provides a worthy anchor for our attention. Best of all, the show knows when to get the character out of the way and concentrate on telling other stories.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 159 User Ratings
6.3
65% Positive
103 Ratings
103 Ratings
14% Mixed
23 Ratings
23 Ratings
21% Negative
33 Ratings
33 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 159 User Ratings
6.3
65% Positive
103 Ratings
103 Ratings
14% Mixed
23 Ratings
23 Ratings
21% Negative
33 Ratings
33 Ratings
Pretty much a perfect show in every way! Smart, gritty, unpredictable. Story telling is first class, as are the actors. Takes you inside the world of the CIA in a compelling way.
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SEASON 1
Ryan may be the shallowest figure here, an assemblage of reactions and attitudes more than a person we get to know--or seem to get to know, which is all the same in television. His early-episodes earnestness is appealing. ... He is forced to spend much of the middle episodes in a kind of balled-up funk as Ryan stews indignantly over the moral compromises he encounters "in the field." ... It gives all the best moments away to Pierce, who is as easily believable, and believably easy, as an old agency pro as he's been in every other part he's ever played. Still, the star handles the action well, when it comes.
The Jack Ryan name will cut through the clutter and polished production values and the solid Krasinski should help viewers choose this Oreo, even if it's only sometimes appreciably better than the store-brand sandwich cookie.
Ryan’s part of the story is a breeze: He’s the good soldier, here to save the day. Sometimes he’ll face some sort of moral dilemma, but it’s never too difficult to guess what the outcome will be. The rest of the series is much thornier, and all the more real for it.
While it may not have been the creators’ intent, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan gets a whole lot better--and more modern, relevant and thoughtful--when Jack Ryan isn’t in it.
It’s just odd to realize mid-way through that a show featuring this many explosions and gratuitous, all-too-familiar terrorist attacks can also be this boring. ... Krasinski lends an un-earned charisma to the character through sheer presence alone, but the nature of the character itself forces him into the background of most situations looking like he’d much, much rather be playing Minesweeper.