![]() As Joe explains to Cruz, if her cover is blown, there is no saving her. Just like that, Cruz has been handpicked by Joe and is meeting the obligatory trash-talking, beer-downing, misfit anti-heroes in Joe’s squad and finding herself on assignment in Kuwait, befriending the daughter of a high-ranking terrorist. Meanwhile, Joe’s supervisor, Kaitlyn (Nicole Kidman), has given Joe instructions to “Go to Bragg, make another one,” i.e., find another star female recruit to join Joe’s ops team and eventually go undercover. ![]() Knowing her soldier’s fate is almost certainly sealed, Joe must decide if she should try to orchestrate some kind of Hail Mary rescue mission or make the excruciatingly tough call to bomb the compound where her plant is being held, thus taking out dozens of the enemy but also killing her own operative. In the breathtaking, cinematically ambitious opening sequence to the series, Joe is overseeing ops from the CIA/SOCOM (Special Operations Command) Outpost in Kobane, Syria, when she learns her plant’s cover has been blown and she has been taken by ISIS. (The series takes the concept to next-level, combat extremes.) Saldaña delivers gritty and authentic work as Joe, the leader of a covert CIA organization that sends female operatives into undercover missions where they befriend the wives, girlfriends, mothers or siblings of women who have close connections to high-level terrorists. military programs such as the counterinsurgency and cultural outreach effort known as Team Lioness. The latest blood-stained action series from the prolific Taylor Sheridan (“Yellowstone,” “Tulsa King,” “Sicario”) is pure fiction but is inspired by real-life U.S. ![]() We can’t wait to see how this series plays out. Playing a survivor of physical abuse who abandons her dead-end life in Oklahoma to realize the potential she once demonstrated as a high schooler, De Oliveira delivers a star-power performance. Zoe Saldaña is joined by Academy Award winners Nicole Kidman and Morgan Freeman in the Paramount+ military thriller “Special Ops: Lioness,” but these A-listers might be taking a back seat to the Canadian actress Laysla De Oliveira, based on De Oliveira’s brilliant and hardcore turn in the pilot episode. ![]()
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