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I have a number of Jack Ryan questions. #JackRyan
(If anyone’s interested, it’s beautifully made, pretty engaging, but also on occasion a bit bland. It’s also semi-regularly implausible in a kind of “oh come on” kind of way, and is neither as clever as it thinks it is or quite as stupid as some critics would have you believe.)
(If you want to watch a few hours of well-produced TV with very good charismatic actors in it without really using your brain too much you could do a lot worse. If they made a second season a bit more nuanced and challenging it could be really good.)
#JackRyan: an ex-Marine with a PhD in history, an economist, a stockbroker who made millions thru his investments, and a CIA analyst.
OK. Suspend our disbelief + allow that he’s done all this by his late 30s. But suspend it as to believe he’s a white dude and not Jamaican? 🤔
OK. Suspend our disbelief + allow that he’s done all this by his late 30s. But suspend it as to believe he’s a white dude and not Jamaican? 🤔
Also Jack Ryan is very much A White Man With The Answers.™️
His hunches are never wrong. Every ep he hits someone with a #wellactually. Ppl tell him he’s just too *good.* Abbie Cornish is flustered by him.
Lol. It’s like Amazon gave a random Redditor some $ for a screenplay.
His hunches are never wrong. Every ep he hits someone with a #wellactually. Ppl tell him he’s just too *good.* Abbie Cornish is flustered by him.
Lol. It’s like Amazon gave a random Redditor some $ for a screenplay.
🇺🇸🇺🇸JACK RYAN! Avatar for the argument that American military hegemony is a necessary good! FUCK YEAH! 🇺🇸🇺🇸
