Jack Ryan (2018–2023)
5/10
What Happened to the Jack Ryan of Season 1 ?
5 November 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Wow is this disappointing... I liked S1 well enough, the odd time you thought why did that happen... but S2 is just full of dumb, dumb scenes...

Here is sample of such cracking scenes, so far (might not get to the end, we'll see)

Why does Jack shack up with what is obviously a honey trap in a Caracas hotel and then leaves all his credentials and highly confidential papers "on show" for her to riffle through?

Why after they are nearly blown-up in Caracas do they all seem happy to wander around on their own in various scenes when presumably there is a significant threat level?

A small ex-special forces or whatever team is sent it to the jungle... They parachute in offshore with the latest US high tech, except the boat cracks open when it splashes down and oh yes, their communications equipment gets wet or something and stops working (haven't they heard of pelicases in the US army?) and oh come on, haven't they heard of the Samsung S10?

The same team leaves the driver (Uber man ha ha) to guard the boat while they go off in the jungle, except he doesn't hang around instead wandering off and getting lost and then jumped by some random kid who just happens to be there for some reason yet to be discovered... Maybe this is why Uber man didn't make it into the Seals!

and best of all so far Jack chases an ex-German spy now turned hit man over the roofs of London in one of those rather predictable chase scenes. He chases him for quite a while, catching up with him at one point , but waits until he jumps into the Thames to have a go at shooting him. He obviously needs to watch some Dirty Harry movies to understand how to handle such situations...
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