| Paramount+ | Season Premiere Date: July 23, 2023 |
Summary:
The Taylor Sheridan series inspired by the real-life CIA program centers on Cruz Manuelos (Laysla De Oliveira), a Marine who is recruited to join the Lioness Engagement Team and go undercover in a terrorist organization.
Genre(s):
Drama
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Jul 24, 2023
De Oliveira might not be in their [Nicole Kidman and Morgan Freeman's] league yet, but if her performance here is anything to go by, she will be. Her Manuelos is a combination of barely suppressed rage and eagerness to please, and she’s very handy with a frying pan – as a weapon rather than an item of cookware. She also conveys an air of emotional vulnerability. You’re rooting for her within 90 seconds of her introduction.
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Jul 21, 2023
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Jul 21, 2023
What can be said about “Special Ops” from its first 42 minutes is that it looks like an awful lot of other counterterrorism thrillers, with a visceral punch to its action and a ticky-tacky, backlot feel whenever it moves in close on its Middle Eastern settings. Saldana registers stoic magnetism, as usual, as the overseer of the operation.
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Jul 24, 2023
This one shrugs off any misgivings about its characters’ mission with the reasoning that “if you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying.” Which sounds good coming out of a soldier’s mouth, as long as you don’t think too hard about how that line of thinking might play out in practice. But that seems to be par for the course for a series enamored more of impossible ideals than actual human nature or lived experience.
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Jul 21, 2023
It is perhaps predictable that the Sheridan take on pop feminism would weaponize women’s liberation in service of the military industrial complex. After all, that rhetorical sleight of hand is as much a cliché as the rest of “Lioness,” which shows the strain of a single writer cranking out scripts for each of his half-dozen shows on air. “Lioness” may be a first for its creator in some respects, but in others, it’s more of the same.
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Sep 6, 2023
Enjoyable show. It may not be realistic but was entertaining. Hopefully, there will be a second season.
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Jul 30, 2023
They should've focused on the story and not the gimmick. I don't know who they thought would watch this, but I don't think anyone will.
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Aug 6, 2023
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Air Date: July 23, 2023
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