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It is shameful that this production is about 5-10% away from being stellar. It needed a few percentage points more in: Realism, Writing, and thus Money to bring it all together. That the production went on the cheap virtually destroyed the legacy of the late Mr. Clancy. Here are just a few examples where the tiniest bit of change would have made a tremendous difference: A US Army Huey flying into the Black Site? Come on. The US Army has none of these in inventory and if you found one somewhere on a TO&E, you wouldn't send it to a BLACK site. Oh, a BLACK site is named as such because it is off the books. We don't want anyone to know it is administered by the US so we have plausible deniability or at the minimum, can keep it secret. We also will not have US Soldiers stationed there as guards who are wearing big US (red, white, and blue) flags on their chests! Finally, if we had a military black site like this in the middle of nowhere (where apparently we pay bounties for terrorists we killed in our own drone strikes), we would have a defense in depth like you cannot imagine. This would include a long serpentine vehicle sally port so you know, the terrorists couldn't explode a car bomb up agains the gate to breach it. Since it happened at the Black Site, I will also mention that interrogating someone with 20 people in the room is beyond stupid, adds no value to the story line, and 2% of additional thought on this matter would have made for a better episode. A little bit more writing an realism would have had Greer firing Ryan for disobeying him on his first week in the job. Greer coulda rehired him back totally in line with the plot. However, let me assure you the CIA doesn't allow blatant insubordination of this type. A little bit more thought would have revealed that we didn't need to add to Jack's backstory and capability by making him active duty for 6 years and a combat veteran. There was much to be said that Tom Clancy had him injured during summer training while in college. Jack was JUST a civilian and NOT a combat veteran. He tried to serve in uniform but found his service out of uniform in civilian service to our nation. But, if you gotta change the story this way, at least promote the poor guy. To be a lieutenant after 6 years of active service makes him the worst officer in US Military History. I will ignore the tactics simply because this is 2018 and the public is oblivious to them. That said, Tom Clancy did not. You learned something you didn't know both tactically and strategically in every story he told. It is beyond belief that a bunch of terrorists could breach a heavily fortified Black Site with 5 Isuzu trucks, a VBIED, and a few nuclear tipped RPGs ... and then escape with their raid's objective. No pursuit? No drones or other aviation assets available? No QRF ready to help if crap goes sideways? No dynamically redirected Keyhole Satellite to keep an eye on the escaping terrorists? Yep, just a few percentage points away from greatness. You missed it by /-----/ much. This was after watching the first episode only. And, I was generous in my critique. If it gets better, I will amend my review.