Tom Clancy's "Jack Ryan" - Amazon Prime TV Show - ETA 2018

I liked it enough (which is most important for a continuing series). The only issues are a few technical ones:

No Dolby Vision. HDR10 is just bad in comparison. We had DV in series 1 and when series 2 rolled in, there was just so much eye squinting there, same for the new series 3.

Appears to have some video weirdness; have spotted multiple times a line right at the bottom of the video that changes colour in relation to the screen every so often. Unsure if it's the App version having trouble, or if it's their actual video that is the problem. Or if it's the LG CX, but given this is the ONLY video from Amazon that has this issue, I'm fairly certain it's this series that has the problem. There was even a flash across the lower half of the screen, like a video tear in one of the earlier episodes, will have to see if it's still there on a rewatch later on when I have more time.
 
Just finished the final episode and it was well worth binging over the last 24 hours!

Didn't notice the video glitches, but as previously mentioned the video/HDR is really bad in dark scenes. Conversely in a few panning shots of cities and bright landscapes its amazing. I've just accepted this seems to be the case for all big Amazon series releases, no idea why maybe HDR10 related, but I suspect that Prime uses a really bad bitrate compared to the other platforms "powered by AWS" :D . I have an LG C7 so it could be it's an issue on the LG/WebOS platform but never had the same gripes with D+ or Netflix before.

Anyway this season is easily the best so far, the state of current world conflicts and politics is really well intertwined into the story, almost freakishly so! At the same time as being really modern, it also had a really cold war feel to it. John Krasinski will never shake the Jim Halpert tag, but a. couple more seasons of Jack Ryan and he could come close. The acting in the last few episodes was really good. I find this show a weird mashup of Homeland and 24, although they both had certain seasons that were really poor whereas Jack Ryan hasn't stumbled, yet.

Roll on Season 4.


rp2000
 
On ep 8 now, really good as expected. There are very few shows that can match this level of quality from acting to production to camera work. Nice to have shows like this, Homeland, 24, Designated Survivor etc that are consistently high quality.

I had no problems with HDR in this, dark scenes were well balanced, looked perfect to me.
 
Last edited:
I have a suspicion they added in a few references to Ukraine to make it more up to date etc they only said it like 5 times in the whole series I think , so it could have been added in, I think.


rp2000
 
Just finished, pretty good, certainly well made and a good story, well acted etc and with nice blend of real life stuff and fictions

My only gripe is bit too James Bond / Jack Bauer on Ryans part at times
I prefer slightly out of his element Ryan "im an analyst" etc with a John Clark or someone to help him out with the gun bits
Also not much Langley and no Mrs Ryan stuff is a shame

although ending was a good JR style ending
- no crazy shoot em up just lots of moral reasoning :D

also liked that they used the Paris Court Budapest location that was also in Jim Prideaux scene in Tinker Taylor

also a lol - a genuine real life lol from me when Mike was eating breakfast and Ryan came running past
 
Another that enjoyed it here. Well acted and interesting story. Who doesn’t like a bit of double-crossing?

Only minor gripe is the final episode seemed to leave a lot to be resolved in a short time period.
 
Enjoyed it a solid 8/10

Usual gripes though (as with 99% of all TV )magic bullets, super hero fight scenes and Jack is in the thick of it far to much.
 
Started the rewatch of it again, and yeah, it's either the App on the LG CX, or it's on the video stream itself where it has those weird artifacts I talked about (one quick flash during on screen that looks like a screen tear, the line at the bottom of the screen that matches the colour of the scene - so that seems more like someone duffed up when applying effects to the scene, and Greer whilst driving somewhere at dawn/dusk I forget which, with badly calibrated light levels that HDR can't help in).

I wonder what's the cause of those (other than the HDR and the lighting calibration, that was clearly someone messing up there)?
 
Meddling-Monk said:
I liked it enough (which is most important for a continuing series). The only issues are a few technical ones:

No Dolby Vision. HDR10 is just bad in comparison. We had DV in series 1 and when series 2 rolled in, there was just so much eye squinting there, same for the new series 3.

Appears to have some video weirdness; have spotted multiple times a line right at the bottom of the video that changes colour in relation to the screen every so often. Unsure if it's the App version having trouble, or if it's their actual video that is the problem. Or if it's the LG CX, but given this is the ONLY video from Amazon that has this issue, I'm fairly certain it's this series that has the problem. There was even a flash across the lower half of the screen, like a video tear in one of the earlier episodes, will have to see if it's still there on a rewatch later on when I have more time.
Click to expand...

Perfectly good in HDR10+, don't use a manufacturer that adheres to the HDR format wars :p ;)

Really enjoyed this series, good balance of tension and action, well shot and well acted.
 
Just re-watched Season 1 this week, in preparation for the final season, tomorrow. I forgot how good it was to be honest. Such tight fast story telling spread over only 8 eps, absolutely no filler content.

Season 4 looks to be 2 eps per week for 3 weeks for a total of 6. I also read somewhere that the character Michael Pena will play in S4 will get his own series after Jack Ryan concludes, I would guess next year (unless its affected by writer's strike).


rp2000
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom