Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan (2018)
Creator: Graham Roland, Carlton Cuse
When CIA analyst Jack Ryan stumbles upon a suspicious series of bank transfers his search for answers pulls him from the safety of his desk job and catapults him into a deadly game of cat and mouse throughout Europe and the Middle East, with a rising terrorist figurehead preparing for a massive attack against the US and her allies.
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Creators
Graham Roland
Carlton Cuse
Cast
John Krasinski
Jack Ryan 
Wendell Pierce
James Greer 
Abbie Cornish
Cathy Mueller 
Okieriete Onaodowan
Adebayo 'Ade' Osoji 
Louis Ozawa
Chao Fah Sein 
Zuleikha Robinson
Zeyara Lemos 
Ryn Greenwell
Bennu Fah 
Michael Peña
Domingo Chavez 
Betty Gabriel
Elizabeth Wright 
Michael Kelly
Mike November User Reviews (3)
Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan isn’t 24 or NCIS, at least from the first episode, but the rest of the season does have the potential to develop into something more. The series opens as an airstrike takes place in Lebanon, where the seeds of hate are sown for two young survivors. The story then cuts to the present day in Washington D.C. where we find our protagonist rowing in the Potomac River. Jack Ryan (played by John Krasinski) is a Boston College graduate, veteran U.S. Marine, and in the present a CIA analyst who has been cross-analyzing databases trying to find possible terrorist activity in Yemen. He discovers a pattern of financial transactions that he believes could lead to the next Bin Laden, but his voice is squashed by a recently demoted department chief named James Greer. Ryan takes steps to go over the head of his superior, and this immediately causes conflict within the…
* A very pleasant surprise! We've only just signed up for Prime and this is the first series I watched. I'm glad I did too, because the action is very exciting, the characters are believable - even though they've taken a few liberties on Clancy's originals - and I enjoyed how the focus was swinging to and from the terrorists' point of view. Krasinski does a fine job as the young Ryan. Not too self effacing and nerdy and not over the top heroic. It's shot in 4K too and the cinematography is superb, so I'm really looking forward to season two.
Wendell Pierce is a bit.... young... isn't he? I mean he does a great job, but after James Earl Jones and Morgan Freeman you would expect someone that at least looks a bit older. Someone not so Gen-X. But then John Krasinski doesn't really look like someone that would have "Ryan" as a last name.... and, like Wendell, he does a good enough job too. John Hoogenakker, however, looks like the role he's playing, but that's really because we all expected him to be Clark. At least the people that read the books expected him to be Clark. So, in my mind, he's playing Clark and not... whatever his name is in whatever episode. But, Ali Suliman... he does a GREAT job so you get hooked despite the complaints from those of us who really wanted to see, well, the novels. This isn't really about the novels. It's kind of true to them as in you can see it all fitting into the Ryanverse, but it'…
