Prime Video's 4-Part Action Thriller Is One of the Best on Any Streaming Platform

There aren’t many contemporary literary heroes who have been as well-documented as Jack Ryan, the bookish CIA analyst created by the late, great Tom Clancy. Clancy wrote dozens of novels about the character and other stories set in the “Ryan-verse,” and Hollywood has taken to making film versions that starred Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford,Ben Affleck, and Chris Pine. While these are all solid films, they don’t necessarily capture the full range of what Ryan was capable of within the novels. Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryanis the ideal adaptation of the source material because the series feels both modern and reflective of the author’s original intent. Even if the timeline is moved up from the Cold War that Clancy lived through, it places Ryan in similar situations where his role is to defuse tensions and find a peaceful way to prevent international conflict.