JACK RYAN: Season 1: Pilot

Name: JACK RYAN: Season 1: Pilot
Item: JACK RYAN: Season 1: Pilot
Author: Tess Farrand

Season 1 Episode 1

Family Content: -2 Extreme caution for older teenagers and adults.

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Strong moral worldview about defending innocent lives against attacks, and not compromising moral standards even if everyone around you is doing it; strong patriotic content presenting American defense institutions in a mostly positive light, but also revealing the negatives of bureaucratic government agencies and the negative effect bombing foreign villages has;

Foul Language:

20 obscenities (including nine “f” words) and three strong profanities (including taking Jesus’s name in vain);

Violence:

Strong action violence, with lots of shooting and explosions, with multiple casualties, a man sneaks into a military base by wearing a person’s skinned face over his and pretending to be dead, he then rips a hidden weapon out of another dead body, a man is cut, a young boy’s legs are burned by a hot beam that he’s pinned under;

Sex:

No sexual content;

Nudity:

Upper male nudity;

Alcohol Use:

Light alcohol consumption;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

No smoking or drugs; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

No other immoral content.

Episodes: Season Overview

Number	Date	Title	Content
1.1	8/31/2018	Pilot	-2
1.2	8/31/2018	French Connection	-3
1.3	8/31/2018	Black 22	-3
1.4	8/31/2018	The Wolf	-2
1.5	8/31/2018	End of Honor	-2
1.6	8/31/2018	Sources and Methods	-2

More Detail:

The pilot episode of JACK RYAN introduces the title character, played by John Kransinski. A former marine, Ryan has worked as a CIA financial analyst for four years, pouring over banking information looking for possible terror connections. When he gets a new boss, James Greer, Ryan presents a string of bank transfers in Yemen he believes could connect to a vague terror suspect named Suleiman. Greer doesn’t buy it, but when Ryan goes behind his back to pursue it, Greer is forced to follow the lead. This leads to the capture of two men in Yemen. Greer makes Ryan go with him to interrogate the men in the Middle East.

The first episode of JACK RYAN starts off a bit slowly, but ends in a big battle that’s very intense and well executed for TV standards. The episode also serves as a setup and introduction to the show’s Lebanese villain, Suleiman. Krasinski makes a terrific Ryan, giving viewers a peak into Ryan’s brilliant calculated mind, but also keeping him likable and grounded. The episode presents Ryan’s moral standards in a positive way, but it also teases whether Ryan can have a successful career in the CIA while holding onto certain ethical standards. Extreme caution is advised for foul language, including several “f” words, and violence.