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Shows that feel likeTom Clancy's Jack Ryan (2018–2023)

When CIA analyst Jack Ryan stumbles upon a suspicious series of bank transfers his search for answers pulls him from the safety of his desk job and catapults him into a deadly game of cat and mouse throughout Europe and the Middle East, with a rising terrorist figurehead preparing for a massive attack against the US and her allies.

If you loved Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, the closest series we have are Black Sails (2014), Station 19 (2018) and The Magnificent Century (2011). All three share Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan's kinetic and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Timeless (2016).

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If Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan hit the spot, these will too

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Black Sails
2014–2017 · 4 seasons · STARZ
★ 8.2drama · action & adventureStarz

Long-game schemers moving pieces while the violence waits offstage

The difference: Period sails and pirate politics — a much slower burn than any op

The pirate adventures of Captain Flint and his men twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic “Treasure Island.” Flint, the most brilliant and most feared pirate captain of his day, takes on a fast-talking young addition to his crew who goes by the name John Silver. Threatened with extinction on all sides, they fight for the survival of New Providence Island, the most notorious criminal haven of its day – a debauched paradise teeming with pirates, prostitutes, thieves and fortune seekers, a place defined by both its enlightened ideals and its stunning brutality.

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Station 19
2018–2024 · 7 seasons · ABC
★ 7.1drama · action & adventureHulu

Professionals running toward danger while their lives strain at home

The difference: Firehouse soap dynamics far from spycraft and statecraft

A group of heroic firefighters at Seattle Fire Station 19—from captain to newest recruit—risk their lives and hearts both in the line of duty and off the clock. These brave men and women are like family, literally and figuratively, and together they put their own lives in jeopardy as first responders to save the lives of others.

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The Magnificent Century
2011–2014 · 4 seasons · Show TV
★ 7.1drama · action & adventure

Power politics where one wrong alliance can be fatal

The difference: Palace intrigue and romance replace fieldwork entirely

At the age of 26, when his reign began, Sultan Süleyman sought to build an empire more powerful than Alexander the Great and to render the Ottomans invincible. Throughout his 46-year reign, his fame as the greatest warrior and ruler of his age spreads both to the East and West. With his companion Pargalı İbrahim, Süleyman achieves great victories, and makes his name known in the Muslim World. Süleyman called İbrahim his brother, friend and advisor. The television series shows Süleyman's consolidation of his power: Pargalı İbrahim being grand minister of state, reinforcing the rule of law throughout the empire, meeting foreign diplomats, and preparing for military campaigns, all set against the backdrop of the tension between Christian Europe and the Ottoman Empire.

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The Day of the Jackal
2024– · 1 season · Sky Atlantic
★ 8.1drama · action & adventure · mysteryPeacock

Meticulous tradecraft on both sides of an international manhunt

The difference: Told from the assassin's side — colder and morally murkier

An unrivalled and highly elusive lone assassin, the Jackal, makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. But following his latest kill, he meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer who starts to track down the Jackal in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe, leaving destruction in its wake.

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Rome
2005–2007 · 2 seasons · HBO
★ 8.7action & adventure · dramaMax

Ordinary men caught in the gears of superpower politics

The difference: Ancient intrigue and sandal-era brutality, not tradecraft

A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.

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Outer Banks
2020–2026 · 5 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.5action & adventure · mysteryNetflix

Kinetic and epic in the same breath

The difference: Easier on the stillness than Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

On a North Carolina island of haves and have-nots, John B and his tight-knit crew of friends find mystery and adventure while hunting for lost treasure.

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MacGyver
2016–2021 · 5 seasons · CBS
★ 5.5drama · action & adventureParamount+

Improvised problem-solving under mission-clock pressure

The difference: A breezy network reboot — disposable and often silly

20-something Angus MacGyver creates a clandestine organization where he uses his knack for solving problems in unconventional ways to help prevent disasters from happening.

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Cursed
2020 · 1 season · Netflix
★ 6action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasyNetflix

Kinetic action & adventure, and it commits to that

The difference: Trades the stillness of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan for an angle of its own

In this fresh take on the Arthurian legend, teenager Nimue joins forces with mercenary Arthur on a quest to find Merlin and deliver an ancient sword.

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Scorpion
2014–2018 · 4 seasons · CBS
★ 7.1action & adventure · drama · crimeParamount+

The same preoccupation in both: national security

The difference: Sits closer to crime than Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan does

Eccentric genius Walter O’Brien and his team of brilliant misfits comprise the last line of defense against complex, high-tech threats of the modern age. As Homeland Security’s new think tank, O’Brien’s “Scorpion” team includes Toby Curtis, an expert behaviorist who can read anyone; Happy Quinn, a mechanical prodigy; and Sylvester Dodd, a statistics guru.

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His Dark Materials
2019–2023 · 3 seasons · BBC One
★ 7.7sci-fi & fantasy · drama · action & adventureMax

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Lyra is an orphan who lives in a parallel universe in which science, theology and magic are entwined. Her search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children and turns into a quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon called Dust. She is later joined on her journey by Will, a boy who possesses a knife that can cut windows between worlds. As she learns the truth about her parents and her prophesied destiny, the two young people are caught up in a war against celestial powers that ranges across many worlds.

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Secret Invasion
2023 · 1 season · Disney+
★ 5.8drama · sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventureDisney+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: espionage

Nick Fury and Talos discover a faction of shapeshifting Skrulls who have been infiltrating Earth for years.

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Timeless
2016–2018 · 2 seasons · NBC
★ 7.6drama · action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasyPrime Video

Both lean on scale more than on action & adventure

A mysterious criminal steals a secret state-of-the-art time machine, intent on destroying America as we know it by changing the past. Our only hope is an unexpected team: a scientist, a soldier and a history professor, who must use the machine's prototype to travel back in time to critical events. While they must make every effort not to affect the past themselves, they must also stay one step ahead of this dangerous fugitive. But can this handpicked team uncover the mystery behind it all and end his destruction before it's too late?

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