The prolific creator of Yellowstone and its various spin-offs seems more interested in action than exploring thorny topics in Special Ops: Lioness, starring Zoe Saldana and Nicole Kidman.
– and his sensibility carries over to this war-on-terror drama. Turns out you can take Sheridan out of cowboy country, but you can’t take the cowboys out of Sheridan’s shows.
Saldana’s Joe runs a CIA unit that uses young female operatives to befriend the daughters or girlfriends of their Middle Eastern targets, who then unwittingly provide target locations. In the opening episode this goes disastrously wrong, and Joe laments her loss. She goes back to work, recruits a driven Marine, Cruz , and takes an insane number of risks with her untrained covert asset. Having now watched the majority of this season, I’m shocked the rookie spook is still alive.
The show has a veneer of high-tech surveillance and special forces warfare – it’s very Zero Dark Flirty – but the storylines and the characters are addicted to action. The 42-minute episodes are finely filleted, but adrenaline overwhelms logic; at one point Joe loans some of her team to a colleague for an unsanctioned operation in Texas that results in a serious body count. There are reprimands.
Cruz’s attempts to butter up Aaliyah , the party girl daughter of an Iraq militia leader aligned with Iran, can’t hold Sheridan’s focus. That’s fine, because the more interesting battles are being fought at Joe’s rarely visited family home, where her silver fox husband, surgeon Neil , is a great hook-up and her 14-year-old daughter, Kate is staging her own rebellion. There are thorny issues here, including race, that the show nods to but doesn’t really explore.
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