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Lioness (2023)

2023 · Action,Drama,Thriller · spy-contemporary, action-thriller

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Special Ops: Lioness is a Taylor Sheridan–produced CIA action-thriller following a female operative who recruits and runs deep-cover agents against terrorist targets, balancing brutal field missions with a fractured home life. The show is driven by a genuinely star-powered ensemble — Zoe Saldana, Nicole Kidman, Morgan Freeman, Michael Kelly — and delivers cinematic-quality action sequences and relentless episode-ending cliffhangers that reward binge viewing. Tonally it sits between prestige drama and propulsive genre entertainment: serious enough to carry emotional weight, accessible enough to be consumed as pure spectacle. It shares Sheridan's hallmark of strong female leads in hypermasculine institutional worlds, with a Washington political layer adding stakes above the field-level missions.

From the reviewers

Production value is high, they do a great job with foreign locations and the action is first rate for a TV show.
each episode ends on a cliffhanger that makes you want to push play on the next episode immediately
Why, why do they always insist on having one teen character who is continuously angry and acts irrationally? It has *never* done any TV show any good.
One minute you are watching a show about secret operatives in the Middle East, the next you are subjected to never-ending scenes of family turmoil caused by one selfish teenager that *no one in the world cares about*.
The lady leads and their overacting-tough-persona is exhausting. Can the show PLEASE make me believe they are true professionals?

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