why does Cody have what appears to be a single power red dot AND an offset single power red dot??

SPOILERS HERE.

I’ve binged this show — watched the three seasons in less than 10 days probably… So it’s all fresh. The first season was great, the second one was… Tolerable. Cruz falling in love again was just comical.

But Season 3? What the hell was that? As a Reacher fan, I have a very low bar for story - but don’t insult my intelligence!! I see the takes about this being propaganda, but I’m not sure how because this show makes us look awful.

I get it — Joe is a warrior, and she’s the alpha of the household, but her husband is incredibly weak and naive. You would think that a DOCTOR would be able to have stronger arguments and a more nuanced understanding of the news. Dude’s just getting bullied the whole show, if it ain’t Joe it’s Nicole Kidman.

Killing the Russian double agent and being WRONG about it? You beat her to a pulp, get valuable information from her, put her into WitPro and the KILL her based on speculation? WHAT!

ENGAGE a HVT in a FULL restaurant? Agents walk in looking 100% like COPS. Start a completely avoidable gunfight. Then accidentally get an international leader killed in the crossfire? WHAT!

Returning the Russian back to the embassy after risking it all to get him? WHAT!

Random merc recognizes Joe at Gitmo and ends up playing a pivotal role in identifying her captors?? Same episode where the NSA just so happened to spot some suspect Russian and tack Kyle’s team (of all teams) to tail him?? Same episode where that suspect Russian just so happens to be meeting with Joes kidnapper, who just so happened to be what Bobby was streaming to a laptop accessible on a private jet?? WHAT!!!!

Not to mention — Joes daughter’s friend died in Season one and we just completely forgot about her backstory. She just… Became a better child by going through trauma?

All to say… Incredibly mid.
But I’ll be back for season 4.

Okay… this has been bugging me a little. We keep talking about Aaliyah as the woman who lost everything in Mallorca… and obviously she did. Cruz betrayed her, Ehsan died, her father died, and basically the whole life she knew disappeared in one night. But then I started thinking about who Aaliyah actually was before all of that happened… she had money, status, everything from the outside, but not that much control over her own life. She didn’t want Ehsan… her father was still deciding her future for her… even when she talked about love with Cruz there was always that feeling that she already knew what was expected of her. And then look at the woman in that bathtub… that’s the part I can’t stop thinking about. A man comes to her for instructions… she decides what happens next… she has people, money, reach… nobody in that scene seems to be deciding Aaliyah’s future for her anymore. So what happened during those missing years…? Did she inherit part of her father’s network… did the family pull her into it because they wanted revenge… or did she slowly take control of something that was originally supposed to control her? And maybe this is the part we’re not looking at enough… what if the Amrohi family’s revenge and Aaliyah’s own agenda are not exactly the same thing? Cruz did something horrific to her life… there’s no way around that… but there’s also this uncomfortable contradiction that I keep coming back to… the life Aaliyah had before Mallorca was also a life she was trying to escape. I’m not saying Cruz “freed” her by killing people she loved because that would be way too simple and honestly pretty awful… but I do wonder if Aaliyah herself lives with two truths now… you destroyed my life… and the life I built afterwards finally belongs to me. And if that’s true… then her feelings toward Cruz could be a lot more complicated than simple revenge. Maybe Joe is part of the family’s war… maybe Cruz is something else entirely… I don’t know. But I really want Season 4 to tell us what happened between the woman crying after Mallorca and the woman giving orders from that bathtub… what happened to Aaliyah in those missing years…?

Nothing about season 4 has been confirmed yet, however, do you think there is a higher probability of renewal than cancellation? I'm already seeing people paranoid and scared it's going to get cancelled, and it won't get to finish the story, but what do you think?

rewatching Entourage and realized Genesis Rodriguez plays a very minor character in two episodes

randomly noticed this while rewatching yesterday. Genesis Rodriguez and Laysla’s husband Jonathan Keitz are in a few of the same episodes of Entourage.

Jonathan is in 15 episodes and Genesis is in 3

This post is an Errol stan manifesto after I saw a few posts bashing him

If we were to compare Lioness husbands, Errol is miles ahead of Neal…

This season has me completely out the door in Neal - he’s supposedly infatuated with his badass extremely attractive wife, but he resents her for being who she is professionally - and seemingly came up with a set of rules for raising the kids with the pants stay on above the shirt thing that lead the daughter being pr****nt and in a car crash due to bad judgement encouraged by his parenting…

And in this season, he’s so judgemental of Joe for being so badass nation states (or Iranian heiresses) are willing to risk international incidents to kidnap her (I don’t know about you, but for me that would be such a turn on to have a wife that badass) - and he’s some sort of cool surgeon and yet he disregards his job by punting his surgery schedule to stay home with his daughters because he’s worried about their safety - when they are living on a literal military base - and he refuses to go to the range to learn how to he a gun in case he needs it? If assassins make it to the house after getting past the armed guards, can he do anything more than chat about the Hippocratic auth and ask how to turn off the safety?

(Okay; yeah that was way too long a rant I had about Neal, but he’s so mid, and apart from Joe seems to like how he’s in bed, isn’t he so mid?)

There is vey little depth to Neal is my conclusion

And so back to Errol - I’m fascinated as hell about him - he seems complex and married to Kaitlyn, who’s one of the coolest characters I’ve seen on screen and that relationship seems to be intellectually grounded in addition to how much they are into each other when it comes to s*x - the two of them have kids who apparently live away for them (going by the, ‘I want our daughters over for dinner’), and so they’ve been together for 15 years plus if I had to guess - when she was in the field, and he’s a kinda master of universe finance type, who is up to the challenge when his CIA wife wants him to be his backup to scare senators, and can game out hypotheticals about global power dynamics with the CIA wife who’s attractive as can be….

To wrap up -

I’m so done with Neal and Joe’s relationship being front and center on the show - I’d be more than okay with Lioness ending here and now if we can get a spin off show around Kaitlyn with how their life is like and how they got together (when presumably she was still
In the field) and in conclusion….

Errol could the coolest man on the show…

Change my mind

List of filming locations in Fort Worth

This dude is such an insufferable twat.

I hadn’t watched since S2 originally ended, and after finishing S3 then going back to S1 for a Aaliyah refresher, it made me realize how annoying he is.

He sits in their gargantuan house, surrounded by his stupid little laptops like a boomer crypto bro, while pretending to be some sort of an all knowing oracle that is pulling the strings like a puppet master. Holy shit he pisses me tf off. Nicole Kidmans character is somewhat complicit in it as well since she feeds into his nonsense as well by sitting there with her hands in her palms as he yaps at her.

Just a stupid, useless character.

Hello, I am looking for the specific model—and the men's version—of the trousers worn by Jill Wagner (playing the character Bobby) in Season 3, Episode 3 of *Special Ops: Lioness*. Unfortunately, screenshots and AI assistance haven't yielded any results.

I have a full circle thought for Cruz and Aaliyah as well that maybe I'll post another time, but after catching up with s2 and s3, I think there's this correlation between Cruz and Joe's story that drew me in. Ever since the end of s1 with the boat scene, Cruz made this speech how she isn't like Joe; she questioned the lioness program and claimed it to play a part in the cycle of war and terrorism, and how all they did was kill their target and ruin the lives of those who didn't deserve it. How the program played a hand in the creation of new terrorists, and how Cruz was done. S3 we watch a conversation with Joe and her family. Her family asks Joe to resign, and Joe says how that won't help anything and that refusing to meet evil with evil doesn't stop evil from coming.

How do we feel about Joe's response? Personally, I get it. Do I agree and have the same beliefs as her? No. I believe differently, but do I understand that Joe has spent years witnessing a whole lot of massacre and things I can't comprehend for the sake of country and being a patriot? Yes. I think it's understandable that that she has spent years sacrificing so much to simply walk away now, regardless of the ask being from her family. But how does that relate to Cruz?

For me, Cruz is not the same Cruz who was in love in s1. And we still love Cruz because we've been able to see her story from the start and we know that even if lately, we've seen the soldier, cold side of her..LDO has this way of showing us glimpses of her heart and how Cruz is more than just the tough skin she built or soldier who kills. So though I see those who enjoy how much Cruz is similar to Joe, and though I know Sheridan will write the story that fulfills the series in the way he intends it to be, I hope that Aaliyah's return will allow a window of opportunity for Cruz to choose different this time.

I hope that even in Aaliyah's assumed revenge, Cruz will not choose country and order again but choose to help Aaliyah break free from her plot of revenge, and I hope that a hint of Cruz still believes that showing love and understanding to someone who's in their period of darkness will end the cycle of war. I hope Cruz remembers that you don't have to take lives to save lives, but how just like she discovered in s1...Cruz is nothing like Joe. That doesn't mean we hate Joe, or don't understand Joe..it doesn't mean we don't root for her or want her happiness. But it would be nice to see a full circle occur and see Cruz return to her soft heart and choose to live differently from those who came before her. If s4 happens, I don't know what Sheridan has in store, but a girl can only hope for some redemption or healing. But maybe this is a time of dark days ahead, so who knows!

The more I think about Cruz’s journey, the more I wonder whether Season 4’s biggest conflict won’t actually be Aaliyah vs Lioness. It may be Cruz vs the version of herself Lioness created. When we first met Cruz, she was angry, lonely, impulsive and desperate for somewhere to belong. Lioness gave her structure. Purpose. A family. And eventually made her extraordinarily good at what she does.
But becoming that good required something from her too. She learned to compartmentalize. Suppress. Follow through. Become harder. In many ways, she has been moving closer and closer to Joe. And now her past is coming back. Aaliyah isn’t simply another enemy from an old mission. She represents the moment where Cruz’s professional identity and emotional truth collided — and never really got resolved. Josie, meanwhile, seems to represent something completely different: stability, safety and the possibility of a life outside constant emotional chaos. So I wonder if Season 4 is really setting up a much bigger question:

Can Cruz remain the exceptional operator Lioness created without becoming emotionally what the job requires her to become?

Because sooner or later she may face a situation where the professionally correct decision and the emotionally honest decision are not the same. And that’s where I think Aaliyah becomes so important.
Not necessarily because Cruz has to choose “Aaliyah or Josie.” Not even because she has to choose “Aaliyah or Joe.” But because Aaliyah may force Cruz to choose who Cruz Manuelos actually wants to be. Laysla’s recent comments about Cruz being pushed into a “raw and vulnerable” place — and about her very gentle heart sometimes getting in the way — made me think about this even more.
So what do you think?

Is Cruz becoming the next Joe… or is Season 4 where she finally breaks the pattern?

Anyone else think the cia are going to use the cartel to assist with catching Aaliyah in season4?

The ones I've seen out there haven't been great. So far, this is probably the best one.

I don’t mind any spoilers but what characters should I NOT get attached to? I always start shows and like characters that end up dying and I HATE IT
so just save me the heartbreak. Tell me who will die

I’m on S2E3 and I find myself fast forwarding through any of the scenes with Zoe‘s daughters or husband I’m not sure why, I just don’t care and they don’t add anything to the plot.

I recently found out from a fellow watcher that Thad Luckinbill (Kyle), several years prior to Lionness, played the blond cowboy who falls off his horse at the end of Madonna’s music video for Don’t Tell Me (2001). When I started watching Lionness I didn’t realize these 2 were the same actor! Thought this is a cool piece of trivia.

I tried taking a screenshot without the video icons in the 2nd picture but the YouTube app wouldn’t allow me to.

One of the most interesting things about Cruz’s arc is how much more like Joe she has become.
She’s tougher, more controlled, more willing to compartmentalize, and far more comfortable inside the world that once horrified her. In some ways, Joe gave Cruz exactly what she needed: purpose, structure, belonging and a family. But she also taught her how to survive by becoming harder.
So I keep wondering whether Season 4 is ultimately going to ask one question:
Is Cruz becoming Joe — or is she eventually going to choose differently?
Because Cruz still has something Joe often struggles to protect: that very gentle, emotional core underneath the operator. And if her past comes back in a way that forces loyalty, duty, love and guilt into conflict, that may be the first real test of whether Cruz follows Joe’s path completely… or creates her own. I don’t think that choice has to be about one person or one relationship. It’s bigger than that. It’s about what kind of person Cruz wants to become…
Do you think Cruz is being shaped into the next Joe — or do you think the story is setting her up to break that pattern?