John Jim Jack

I first knew John Krasinski from The Office, and I liked him immediately. I liked how Jim just minded his business… You’d always see those memes like “This is Jim. Jim minds his business, be like Jim.”

I also loved him and Pam together. His patience, the softness, the waiting. Their relationship was so genuine.

So when John Krasinski became Jack Ryan, I noticed immediately… Yup.

The thing is, I’m actually not new to Tom Clancy’s world, I’ve read The Hunt for Red October and Patriot Games, and I’ve seen some of the older Jack Ryan movies too where Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck and Chris Pine did real good in that role… But because it was John Krasinski this time, I wanted to experience it differently. I kept telling myself I should properly sit down for the series and maybe even revisit the books again before starting. Then life happened, and I kept postponing it… For years.

At the beginning of 2026, though, I remember telling myself I was finally going to watch all four seasons of Jack Ryan… And then the 2026 movie debuted. Jack Ryan: Ghost War…

…And now I think I actually will.

There’s just something interesting about seeing someone you first knew as quiet, funny, observant Jim become a serious intelligence analyst thrown into so much global chaos.
So yeah. I think I’m finally ready for my John Krasinski Jack Ryan era.

I’m writing this at the end of season two…

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