If "Jack Ryan" is a romantic fantasy in which peace-loving Muslims only take up arms in revenge and jihadi extremism is something invisible and amorphous and unrelated to any system of beliefs, this one is like an "ISIS magazine" Editorial the Series. Evil Crusaders want to kill all Muslims...
In a world where Mohammedan zealots kill hundreds (at least) of non-Muslims, not-enough-Muslims and not-the-right-kind-of-Muslims every day, where only a week ago an Afghani migrant knifed two tourists in Amsterdam because he was upset that Islam is being criticized in the West... To concoct such a plot in which people brought up in a modern society would even consider murdering the quarter of the planet's population? One has to be blind, monumentally stupid or "1984" grade indoctrinated.
I agree. I've made it about halfway through the first season, and I don't think I can stomach finishing it. As a centrist/conservative in my ideology, I've come to expect a certain amount of liberal slant as inevitable, given how dominated the entertainment industry is by the left, but this just dials it up to eleven, and it's so egregiously bad it's taking me out of the story.
Everyone in the series with conservative values is portrayed as evil, and I don't they've missed a single liberal stereotype. The CIA is "Christians in Action." We live in a world today where practically all the terrorism committed in the world today is carried out by radical Islamic Jihadists. They've flown planes into buildings, killing thousands; they've bombed the Boston Marathon; They've slaughtered the staff at the French Charlie Hebdo newspaper; Danish cartoonists had to go into hiding after publishing cartoons of Muhammad, lest they be killed; Islamist terror groups like Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, and ISIS increse their body count by the year; etc. etc. But the real threat today, of course, is militant Christians. Yeah, sure. Whatever.
And the end of the last episode I just watched... Well, it was just a little thing really. Had I seen it by itself, without all the leftist wanking I've seen in this show so far, I probably wouldn't have paid it any mind. But here, it's like the straw that broke the camel's back: yet another completely predictable liberal trope. At the very end, Turner is attacked by a henchman of underground activist he's going to see; and at about the same time, a black female character who's the lover of one of Turner's murdered female coworkers is attacked by a guy in a bar. Turner of course, is overpowered and captured. White male? Helpless. The black female lesbian? She kicks ass of course. Can't show a LGBQT person of color as anything other than a super-capable badass. The issue is they make these characters Mary Sues.
I was reading the reviews at imdb and I think I just read yours 😄
I was checking if the series was free from woke politics (or at least it had only a reasonable amount), since the movie is one of my favorite spy movies ever and I'd love to see a whole series about it. It seems I wasn't lucky...