![]() He’s the guy who’s interested in the details, who uses his brain to save the day, but for the beginning of this second season he’s almost aloof-to the point that his opening tryst with Harriet makes no sense. He can handle his way around a gun, but that’s not really what makes Jack Ryan compelling as a hero. ![]() ![]() But in Season 2, not only is Jack a bit more emotionally removed ( Abbie Cornish’s Cathy Mueller is conspicuously absent this season), he’s also not even really being used for his intelligence expertise. Or at least as much emotional complexity as can fit into a character like Jack Ryan. A common knock on the character is that he’s a boring everyman, but Krasinski did an admirable job of shading the protagonist with emotional complexity in the first season. Jack Ryan, meanwhile, has kind of lost some of his dimensionality from Season 1. The story cuts away to Reyes quite frequently, but he’s far less compelling as an antagonist this go-around, and the show’s understanding of the geopolitics of Latin America leave something to be desired. But there’s something about the second season that feels almost smaller and less cohesive-at least in the initial episodes (I’ve seen the first four). ![]()
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