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'Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan' Gets An 'A' For Adequacy

There's no reason to watch Amazon's new spy drama, really, but there's nothing particularly wrong with it. Rarely has a show so clearly defined competency and little else.
Wendell Pierce and John Krasinski in <em>Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan</em>.

"I mean, I guess, if you want."

This is the review I threatened to write on Twitter the other day for a show I didn't name that is, in fact, Jack Ryan. Officially, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan. More specifically, Amazon's Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan. And, per some new corporate branding, Amazon's Prime Video's Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan.

Ryan was created in , a

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