Special Ops: Lioness – Bruise Like a Fist – Season 1 – Episode 3 – RECAP

November 28, 2023November 28, 2023 SkipTvAds

Special Ops is a army/terrorism related drama I have been watching, there are tv series that I use to fill in time when I don’t have anything else to watch and this does not mean they are bad, some times it also depends on the time that I manage, there is so much content out there that anyone with a job a family cant keep up on a daily bases. Special Ops finish its first season with a score of 7.7/10 on IMDB, that’s a great accomplishment for a series that didn’t have that much of advertisement online in my opinion, similar to Citadel who ended up with a lower score but for different reasons.

The series starts hard with a lot of action but moving into the second and third episodes its partial action and more drama, I think this is mainly because the job of Cruz, the women above; is to infiltrate Aaliyah Amrohi daughter of a high profile terrorist that everyone believe is a ghost, on the side there is Joe who lead the Lioness programs with problems of her own at home with her kids and husband who barely see them because of her line of work, she constantly have to travel around the world and can’t tell or give details about her job, everything is top secret.

The two main characters Joe (Zoe Saldana) and Cruz Manuelos (Laysla De Oliveira) in my opinion had done a great job, I have seen a few comments online saying their acting is weak but this is just probably people expecting more action from the series considering is terrorism war related, consider this is not a field series this is espionage/undercover also its more oriented to a undercover women trying to infiltrate another women so its obvious we will see girly stuff scene, keep expectations to the ground.

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Fucking Monday, that’s what this episode is about, a shit storm that is coming towards Joe, it all starts by helping another agent who knows about her operation, his name is Kyle and his specialty is Drug Cartels, he needs to do an extraction, one of his informers got caught and he needs to take him out of custody before they transport him to jail, if that happens he is a dead men and most likely will snitch on Kyle revealing all his operation. There has to be some relationship between him and Joe since she accept to give him three agents for 48 hours to get this job done, she must really trust him.

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On the Cruz side of things, she arrives to Laysla place, got no clue what to talk about, who their friends are, if she is in danger or not, security is tight as fuck but the guys were smart enough to hide all mics on her, the way Joe tries to get Cruz blend in is a bit different than the “traditional” strategy we see on movies where agents get a full debrief of the target before they move in, Cruz doesn’t because Joe wants it to be natural as possible to really make it work.

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At an episode three is normal for new characters to pop up, specially when this series is still moving very slow, there still five episodes to go, Laysla start to introduce all her friends to Cruz, they running a mini Melrose Place thing, for all the OGs; where all her three friends have slept with two men and take turns depending on how drunk they are, the other two men are friends with Laysla too, one is her fiance cousin, Nala, Malika and Nashwa, the most friendly is Nala who I think in the future will have to do with Cruz, idk.

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If you have seen my previous two post, remember how Joe put Cruz through the grinder, beat the hell out of her at a ops base? well she is all fucked up and Laysla made a big deal out of it because she knows some one abuse Cruz, calls a doctor to have her check, the entire drama, Cruz cover almost got blown out by the Doctor but she manage to put on a sad face with tears about to pop so he believe her the “abuse” from her boyfriend is over so she can move on, bit intense scene but it was obvious nothing was going to happen, it is just too early on the series, good guys cant die yet.

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Joe problems, not only Kyle ask to borrow some of her guys, not only Joe almost blown Cruz cover because she didn’t need to put Cruz on a grinder to find out if she really breaks or not, everybody does at some point; she finds her daughter Kate at home making out, when she ask her husband wtf was suppose to be that he answers back “top only…pants stay on, sacrifice top to keep the bottom safe” LOL that was fkn funny, her daughter Kate is full teenage savage mode always arguing with Joe about how she is never there for them and comes back home pretending to be parent, its a valid point when she has no idea what’s her mom job and that’s something Joe has to live and deal with.

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Moving forward, the three most action junky agents from Joe group accept to work on this mission she ask for volunteers without knowing wtf it was about until they were on the truck with Kyle and start to ask questions, Kyle is against the wall on this mission, is from zero to hero or his entire operations goes belly up, he is in desperate mode and everything has to go through flawless, plan is to intercept the transport, use an EMP to shut down cameras and so they can jump in and take his informant, simple right? at this point in time Two Cups, Tucker and Tex (Joe’s agents) want to think over what they are about to commit when its just too late, they already aboard, no way back out.

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Things didn’t go as smooth as planned, they did get the informer back but Drug Cartel members were already after him and try to front run Kyle so the only thing they achieve was to keep him alive, informer cover has been blown and is worthless for Kyle, Two Cup and Trucker and to put up some work to get rid of the Cartel goons, their main problem is that this job was suppose to be clean as fuck but when you have more than two car wrecks and half a dozen bodies some one is going to dig deep enough to figure out who did all this mess.

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After the entire bruises drama, Cruz got invited by Laysla to party without knowing here until she finds herself inside a private jet where the team cant probably listen to her anymore and also might become hard to track her so they now are in a rush to get close to Cruz again as soon as possible, Cruz did manage to read the plane plate before they were gone so Joe can find out where the plain was going.

As you can tell this is not a series you need to expect a lot of shooting and constant action scenes, yes first episode probably sold the series like that, they open up with massive attack to the US Army base, a fucking warthog going down on the terrorist it was insane but this episode specially was very slow, bit of action towards the end with the extraction but the series is more about the drama, the suspense of how deep can Cruz gets into Laysla family, they trying to attend the weeding with the hope that Laysla father will be present, Cruz orders are to kill him the moment she gets in contact with him, I don’t know how is that going to happen, are there thing to be consider like Cruz safety or does she has to go kamikaze on Laysla’s father?

Episode 1: https://ecency.com/hive-121744/@skiptvads/special-ops-lioness-sacrificial-soldiers
Episode 2: https://ecency.com/hive-121744/@skiptvads/special-ops-lioness-the-beating-season-1-episode-2-recap

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Special Ops: Lioness – Sacrificial Soldiers – Season 1 – Episode 1 – RECAP

October 6, 2023 SkipTvAds

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Same as it happen to me I’m sure most people will be HOOKED on the first ten minutes and will be asking for more gunpowder for the rest of the episode, Special Ops: Lioness packs a fucking ton of it plus tough to the nails women in action, between Joe and Cruz you will love to see them kicking ass left and right, on first episode we still don’t see any of the too in action yet.

This is a series I have been wanting to watch for some time now, as usual a bit skeptical if it would be good or not scoring 7s and 8s on sites so it obviously has to be good, I’m a sucker for war theme anything from movies to TV series, plus the undercover agent part that is very exciting.

Special Ops: Lioness as you guess is about women who go to war but not exactly to just shoot, it is a special operations program for women to get involve with female related to male targets, say they are after a man but know his daughter or wife are usually in contact then they send out a female agent to infiltrate them, become friends with them until they get enough information and if possible kill the target. This program is lead by Joe who recruit the members, it all sound easy like get dress well, become friends, gain their trust but the dirty and savage part is when their cover is blown and now Joe has to take the decision, will the agent get safe so it can be extract or is it time to cut loose ends meaning pull the trigger if necessary to not compromise the program.

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The episodes starts with an attack to a CIA post, it was a very large amount of guys attacking but it almost didn’t make sense, not that they don’t explain the reason for the attack but how they were running forward and then to the sides I don’t know, once the shooting stops, adrenaline goes down and you re watch the scene you find it empty, but I have to say it was a great opening, in five minutes you had massive shooting, ak47 screaming all over the place, a FUCKING HAWG one of the most badass aircraft in movies and irl clearing the field and even a drone strike hitting the target. Once the music was over the story starts to unfold, even though it was a great opening I doubt this is how the series will be, I don’t think we are going to have this massive shooting on every episode.

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First episode, time to meet main characters and their motives, basically what the hell is this story about, on the picture above is Joe women in charge of calling the shots on the field, I don’t think she is in charge as usually there is some one back at home moving the pieces but on the field she decides if you stay or go, on the first episode her undercover agent gets identified, Joe never check her for tattoos and seems she had a cross with a name on her side and it was seen by one of the women on the village, depending on where you at it can be a big NO NO since they are in middle east. Joe tried to extract her from the location but it was already too late for her, extremist found her and were about to cut of her head but Joe authorize drop a missile from a drone to safe her the pain and keep things secret as possible, desperate move for a desperate situation.

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Next on the startup we got Cruz Manuelos, a women who is trying to make her life straight after making a lot of bad decisions, lives with her boyfriend who plays been gangster but she is over with that life, now works a honest job and is not into any of her bad habits, this creates a conflict been them and after an argument because she hits a girl inside the house, Cruz’s boyfriend hit her with a jab straight to her face.

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Cruz wants to be over with her boyfriend and his old life so next morning she took vengeance, pack her things and wait for him to wake up to hit him twice in the face with a pan, the chase starts until they arrive to a US Marine recruiting center, she enters screaming for help until a big ass Marine steps in between her and her boyfriend. She felt safe with the Marine, she realize if she didn’t wanted to be abuse anymore one of her options was to become tougher, US Marines training will do that for her so she enrolls, top of her class, tougher than male recruits, faster, smarter, she was the full package, perfect asset to join the Lioness.

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After a lot of reports, debriefs, interviews, Joe comes back home with two things in mind, first is go home spend some time with her family although is not that easy because she spends most of her time out of the country on classified missions meaning no contact with her family, comes back home and between her two kids her son is more sensible to not seen her for so long, her husband holds the fort while she is out.

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Joe ended up recruiting Cruz, after all she is at the top of her class and Joe had to move fast, she needed another undercover agent, Cruz and Joe are not best friends, actually Joe doesn’t seem to like her that much, Cruz is now in my opinion over confident, been a Marine make her feel she has a lot of power and can conquer everything life throws at her but when your neck is at risk that’s when true stars shine, for her first task she did panic a bit.

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Different than most common undercover agents that already know everything about their target all Cruz knows is her face, undercover name Zara Adid but she forgot the moment Aaliyah Amrohi ask for her name, the moment Cruz got into the car to get ready and meet the target she starts panicking and Joe had to calm her down, the hole idea of knowing nothing about the target is to lower the risks of getting caught and make the experience as real as possible, become friends, create a bond but with always in mind that this is just another job.

This series so far is exactly as what the tittle says, a Special Operations team that work with Lioness, top of the class Female Marines who are fearless, tough and can still be a perfect lady, Cruz is not the most girly girly but she knows her way around. Cruz story feels a bit crunch but I guess the series is not about that, after all this is another Army theme TV series bringing in something different, its the first time I see this type of series based on a group of female Special Ops Marines, usually is the other way around and that’s interesting also how they are thrown into the water without knowing much about the target, the end goal is the same locate and get/kill the bad guy.

I wonder if this series will be big enough to get several season something like SEAL Team currently on its sixth season or something shorter like Six only got two seasons, I don’t see how a series with very few characters and no side stories could make it into a more than two or three seasons, I’m also curious of how much action we will get on each episode because it was five minutes of gunpowder and then the rest was a few japs, kicks, arguing and that was it, less than forty five minutes per episodes.

I give this first episode a solid 7.5 just because of what I mention, I think they try to buy the audience with all the shooting at the beginning but after that the action starts to soften little by little.

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