![]() Recently, Sheridan has built himself a minor TV empire, thanks to the massive stateside success of his Western drama Yellowstone. Lioness is created by Taylor Sheridan, the button-pushing writer of Sicario and director of Wind River and the excellent bank-robber drama Hell or High Water. ![]() ![]() Nothing about this series is, in fact, memorable. As it shakes out, Saldaña is an able lead, but not a memorable one. On paper, Joe is this role: tough but morally conflicted. While she’s wily enough in front of a green screen, there has always been a sense that the best is yet to come, that some meaty showpiece of a role lies just around the corner. Saldaña, meanwhile, is one of the highest-grossing box office stars ever, thanks to roles in the Avatar and Marvel film franchises. The biggest name on the call sheet is Morgan Freeman, in a rare TV regular role. Michael Kelly ( House of Cards) acquits himself better as Joe’s no-nonsense superior. Nicole Kidman, playing another CIA figure, seems only half-engaged in the material. De Oliveira is porcupine-spiky on screen, and not helped by the predictable, dry writing. That Lioness fails to ever really roar is a shame, given the pedigree of talent before and behind the camera. She takes refuge in an office of the US marines before long, she’s become one of them. We meet Cruz in a flashback, as she’s escaping from an abusive relationship. ![]() As the failures of the Syrian mission are picked apart, Joe is handed a new prospect to work with, a hard-edged marine named Cruz (Laysla De Oliveira). It’s ruthless work, and takes a ruthless personality – though Joe, we sense, has a heart underneath the layers of flint. Her job spearheading the CIA’s “Lioness” initiative, which embeds women undercover with the wives and families of suspected terrorists, to keep tabs on the target and eventually allow the CIA to kill them. From there, the episode (released on Paramount+) takes a breather. It’s an explosive way to begin a series, for sure. There’s a cacophony of gunfire as ISIS move in, CIA operative Joe (Zoe Saldaña) is forced to make a terrible decision. An espionage operation has gone awry: thanks to a tell-tale tattoo, an asset – a woman – has been compromised. Sure enough, the series begins in the Syrian desert, in media res. A world of life-or-death stakes and stolid professionalism. The slightly clunky billing – “ Special Ops”was appended to the title late in production – lets you know that this is a series about fraught modern warfare. Henry must choose between remaining an angel or becoming a human and finding true love.You can probably guess what you’re getting from a show titled Special Ops: Lioness. When Henry starts to act on his feelings, this enrages Carl, who orders Henry to disappear out of Robin and Sophie's lives immediately. But things take an unexpected turn when there's a spark of romantic attraction between Robin and Henry. Henry is awkward at first and unskilled at the basics of his job, but he tries to help Robin get dates and plays soccer with Sophie in the hopes that she'll try out for her school's soccer team. In heaven, guardian angel Carl (Julian Christopher) hears Sophie's prayer and sends an angel named Henry ( Shawn Roberts) to pose as a contractor. Meanwhile, as Robin searches for a general contractor to help her with the house, Sophie prays that someone will come along to bring happiness to their lives. Her new house needs a lot of work, which means that Robin makes frequent trips to the hardware store - where she befriends Izzy (Britt Irvin), who's trying to hide her crush on the store's uptight owner, Todd (Matthew MacCaull). In UNDERCOVER ANGEL, Robin ( Katharine Isabelle) is a recently divorced mom who's moved to a new town with her tween daughter, Sophie (Lilah Fitzgerald).
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