Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan - Season 3 21 December 2022

[JohnC]

John Krasinski will be the fifth Jack Ryan in a new TV show coming to Amazon. It's not been greenlit for a full series yet, but is expected to be. Carlton Cuse will run the show and Michael Bay will be a producer.

 

They say it's not a direct adaptation of books, but a contemporary take on Ryan's days in the CIA with some book stuff used as source material.

[Butters]

I quite liked Shadow Recruit. But I'm immediately put off this by the involvement of Bay!

[Monkeyboy]

I don't think it matters. Bay is a producer on other TV shows like Black Sails, and that's awesome.

[Butters]

Can't say I've seen that, so I'll take your word on it. I genuinely hope it's good. I've not read any of the books in question. Any good?

[TehStu]

I've only read the main ones you've probably already seen as films with Ford and Baldwin, but I've found them all really enjoyable.

 

Looking forward to this.

[Butters]

Has Krasinski done anything like this previously? An action/thriller style role?

[JohnC]

I've not seen the movie so don't know how much action he had, but he was in 13 Hours, about Benghazi.

[JohnC]

Abbie Cornish has been cast as the female lead and Peter Fonda as her dad, possibly a recurring role.

 

Looks like it's following all those games and will be titled Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan.

[JohnC]

 

 

Bunk! Playing James Earl Jones character.

 

Not sure about Krasinski.

[Tetchy]

He was really good in 13 Hours so I think he'll be pretty good.

[JohnC]

 

[Stejay]

Anyone watching this? I know a fair few people have trashed it, but my wife and I have watched six episodes so far and we’re loving it. A modern and far more intelligent take on 24.

[pledge]

Seen the first three and it's fine for what it is trying to be. I watched all the films the week before and its better than Sum of all Fears and Shadow Recruit so far. First show I've found on Prime that has Dolby Vision and it certainly looks the part.

[Max Damage]

5 hours ago, pledge said:

Seen the first three and it's fine for what it is trying to be. I watched all the films the week before and its better than Sum of all Fears and Shadow Recruit so far. First show I've found on Prime that has Dolby Vision and it certainly looks the part.

 

My TV does Dolby vision but I don't think this show is enabling it, disappointing as Netflix stuff enables it but I assumed Prime didn't support it. Are you watching this via the TV app?

[hub2]

Two episodes and my initial reaction is: hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. 

[Triple A]

i like this.

decent pacing, production, characterisation and performances.

[pledge]

5 hours ago, Max Damage said:

 

My TV does Dolby vision but I don't think this show is enabling it, disappointing as Netflix stuff enables it but I assumed Prime didn't support it. Are you watching this via the TV app?

 

Yes the app on an LG B7. It is the usual Amazon farce where you have to make sure you are picking the UHD version of the show, which is not the one that appears multiple times on the home screen or via the search. Find the genres section and pick UHD and it should be in there. At first only standard HDR badge popped up when I first tried it on release morning. When I retried it in the evening the Dolby Vision one appeared.

[footle]

Hmm. Failed abysmally to find the uhd version on Friday. Will have to try again,

[sandman]

Loving this so far, don't want to rush it so only done 2 episodes. I find his massive nose distracting and Abbie Cornish is bloody awful, apart from that though this is a fantastic adaptation of one of my favourite book characters

[pledge]

19 minutes ago, footle said:

Hmm. Failed abysmally to find the uhd version on Friday. Will have to try again,

 

I'm on some newer horizontal layout they've copied from Netflix. The 'TV Genres' section which has an item labelled 'Prime 4K Ultra-HD' with an icon of grey and green cubes moves but it was at least ten rows down. Finding that is the key to pretty much all of the UHD content. Once you watch the first the correct version sticks in your Watch Next section at the top thankfully (or add to your list).

[Stejay]

3 hours ago, hub2 said:

Two episodes and my initial reaction is: hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. 

 

It isn’t going to improve any for you then I don’t think, whereas we finished it last night and cannot wait for season two.

[Eighthours]

Loving this so far after 3 episodes. Will try to find the UHD version, it’s fucking madness how the Amazon app hides this content.

[pledge]

It has to be intentional. It seems unlikely it is related to bandwidth costs for them, and the only semi-plausible explanation I've seen online is that they got a lot of support tickets raised about it not working for people on slow connections. It doesn't explain why they don't make it scale like Netflix do.

 

Then there's stuff like this https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45355186

 

[Max Damage]

3 hours ago, pledge said:

 

Yes the app on an LG B7. It is the usual Amazon farce where you have to make sure you are picking the UHD version of the show, which is not the one that appears multiple times on the home screen or via the search. Find the genres section and pick UHD and it should be in there. At first only standard HDR badge popped up when I first tried it on release morning. When I retried it in the evening the Dolby Vision one appeared.

 

Cool I found it, at the top, TV section then UHD row. Thanks.

 

The show itself I'm finding a bit cheesy but enjoyable enough.

[Ryan]

Finished it. I really enjoyed it, especially the fact that they didn't fall prey to the usual deus ex machina tropes.

 

I'm shocked that the chopper wasn't blown out of the sky or that the drone pilot didn't become a jihadist or something.

 

Looking forward to season 2.

[Steve McQueef]

Not bad, not bad at all. 

 

There's a couple of things that pissed me off...

Spoiler

Low-budget Miles Teller going to Syria, and Cathy's Ebola mystery involving The Terror Brothers.

but aside from that, I thought it was quite well done. 

 

Any heroics from Ryan are purely reactionary, he's not Bauer, Bond or Bourne and that's incredibly refreshing. 

[Eighthours]

I finally found the UHD, which the app insisted was in 1080p when playing.  It did have HDR, though.

 

Just 2 eps to go. I have no idea how this will all be wrapped up in that time. I hope it isn't!

[Mars]

Thought this was fantastic, shame it's probably going to be a long wait until Season 2

[Gotters]

I’ve only watched 2 but really enjoying it, its got a new school coat of tv paint that adds film budgets but somehow seems a bit old school and cheesy somehow.

 

Don’t really know why but the whole first episode bit in the US army base gave me a distinct A Team vibe, despite not being A Team in story or level of violence. The base seemed a bit cheap and cheerful somehow and gave me 80s tv vibes

[scottcr]

5 episodes in... this is cracking stuff