Special Ops: Lioness

What was a simple kidnapping plot is now concerned with preventing a global war with China.

The series follows three women in the CIA’s “Lioness” program, which sends female operatives undercover into dangerous criminal organizations.

As Special Ops: Lioness enters season finale mode with “Gone is the Illusion of Order” (Episode 8) – The Sheridan-O-Verse is replete with portentous episode titles – let’s get back with the QRF crew, who we instantly bonded with way back in Episode 1.

OK, it’s maybe not the most positive conversation Cruz is having with Joe – her boss – in Kyle’s hotel room in New York City, while Aaliyah – her mark – waits for her in the bedroom of a luxury suite upstairs in Special Ops: Lioness Episode 7 (“Wish The Fight Away”).

With only two episodes left in Special Ops: Lioness Season 1, Taylor Sheridan’s Spy Shit thriller introduces Freeman as Secretary of State Edwin Mullins here in its sixth (“The Lie is the Truth”), and Mullins is fucking pissed.

In Special Ops: Lioness, it’s becoming increasingly clear how much borrowed time Joe’s professional life has bought against the personal life bank.

Laysla De Oliveira is so great in these moments in the early episodes of Special Ops: Lioness, because she allows us to be with Cruz as she walks boldly but carefully on the precarious line between her new professional reality and her constructed identity.

Over a quiet meal at an upscale Washington, DC restaurant, Joe was delivering a progress report about Cruz to Meade as Special Ops: Lioness Episode 2 (“The Beating”) opens.