TV you just love (or at least really like)

[Perseus]

I thought season 2 of Jack Ryan was a big let down.

[Samanator]

You need to watch Bosch. Next to Miss Massel, it is my favorite show on anything.

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[gnuyork]

I thought season 2 of Jack Ryan was a big let down.

Just finished it now. Terrible.

[Raza]

I thought season 2 of Jack Ryan was a big let down.

Really? I thought it was a significant improvement over the first season.

[gnuyork]

Really? I thought it was a significant improvement over the first season.

It's pretty bad. Tom Clancy should be ashamed, and so should John Krasinski.

[Raza]

It's pretty bad. Tom Clancy should be ashamed, and so should John Krasinski.

Agree to disagree, I'm afraid.

[Perseus]

Really? I thought it was a significant improvement over the first season.

Story issues aside, I didn't love what they did the Jack Ryan's character. In the books and the Harrison Ford movies, Jack Ryan is not field operative or a military stud. He's an analyst who gets thrown into a few wild situations, which require some fighting and shooting from time to time. He's not ripped and he doesn't have hookups with random women. In the Hunt for Red October Ryan thinks about how he needs to exercise more because he's putting on weight from all the sitting around due to his desk job as an analyst. These are things I can get past and will keep watching the show. Although, I think season 2 could easily have had some great twists and turns which left me disappointed.

[Raza]

Story issues aside, I didn't love what they did the Jack Ryan's character. In the books and the Harrison Ford movies, Jack Ryan is not field operative or a military stud. He's an analyst who gets thrown into a few wild situations, which require some fighting and shooting from time to time. He's not ripped and he doesn't have hookups with random women. In the Hunt for Red October Ryan thinks about how he needs to exercise more because he's putting on weight from all the sitting around due to his desk job as an analyst. These are things I can get past and will keep watching the show. Although, I think season 2 could easily have had some great twists and turns which left me disappointed.

I agree that it's a new characterization of Jack Ryan, but I had no problems with it. At some point, after being thrown into the action enough times, you should know what you're doing, right? Jack Ryan was former military in the books, though, wasn't he? Like, the helicopter crash was established (as I recall, they even did it in Shadow Recruit, which was very blah).

[wschofield3]

Watched the pilot of "Hightown" on Starz - and as a first show, we will come back for more. Another show taking place in Massachusetts, this time, in P'Town on Cape Cod, the Cape being stomping grounds of mine and my wife's families in the summer time since we were tots - so we felt it appropriately reflective of the underbelly of the Cape community - and the accents are, miraculously, fairly spot on.

A bit too much "basic cable" than others, but we will give it a few more episodes to see if it keeps holding our attention.

[Samanator]

It's pretty bad. Tom Clancy should be ashamed, and so should John Krasinski.

Except Tom Clancy was dead 6 years before season 1 aired, and 7 years before season 2 came out. It says in the credits adapted from the characters created by Tom Clancy. Neither season one or two are even close to the events in Clancy's books except for the names. James Greer is suppose to be a former Navy Admiral who dies of cancer. Pretty much worked a desk, and the Government conference rooms in the books. They are missing John Clark who seems more like his roll was morphed into what Jack Ryan roll is in the movies. Jack Ryans girlfriend/wife Kathy worked at Johns Hopkins and was a famous eye surgeon. I can go on, but I guess what I'm saying is any resemblance to anything Clancy is by character name only. The rest they distorted and screwed up. Filter out any expectation to anything Clancy and view them written by someone who just asked Tom to give them a few character names (That are nearly all a variation of the same name), and stories dreamed up by someone without Tom's off the chart technical writing skills. They are entertaining, just not great.