First Episode of 'Jack Ryan' Looks Like a Much-Needed Subversion of Its Source Material

The first episode of Amazon’s Tom Clancy adaptation “Jack Ryan” saw its U.S. public debut Friday afternoon in Ballroom 20 at San Diego Comic-Con, and as it happens the show works pretty well. Not only as decent counter-programming for the convention, but if the episode is any guide, for the source material too. Star John Krasinski turns out to be a very credible fit to play the lode-bearing Clancyverse character. And co-star Wendell Pierce’s beleaguered, on-his-last-second-chance CIA off...