Lioness (aka: Special Ops: Lioness) (Page 3 of 3)

When Kyle started listing databases he has access to and where he can find information...i thought my head would explode..what was that? Embarrassing to watch to say the least.

They could've made it less obvious that they were in Texas...license plates + flag? Why not make it something that they want to hide from her and she finds it out using her skills or something?

Going home - Nope.  The agency can sell my home and buy me a new one under a completely new identity.  I don't have to live under that name for the house to be mine in a shell corp name.

Senator - Yep.  She planted the idea.  It might as well have been the Arnold Swartenegger scene: "Resign or be prosecuted" from Raw Deal 1985 (https://clip.cafe/raw-deal-1986/resign-be-prosecuted/)

CIA witsec - I don't know.  Doesn't seem likely.  By passing off assets to a new agency that already has all the mechanisms in place for id, passports, buying houses, setting up businesses and back story and credit histories, monitoring their social media for years etc. you reduce the number of places for there to be leaks.  Double efforts seem like double weak points.  Plus you want all that on the other agency's annual budget request.

Ukranian spy - yes, yes...um, yes and yes.  None of what they do around that character makes sense until you look at it from the perspective of having a need for yet another girlboss to be the mirror peer to Zaldona.  Taylor Sheridan still has to play nice enough with the industry to stay in business.  So if you watch the show for more than 5 episodes it quickly becomes clear that if its a male they're meat and if its a woman they're the brains.  Kyle is the closest they have to having elements of both.  Kidman's husband always seems to be 10 moves more informed than her: I don't know why he's not running the agency aside from being male so she gets to play off his knowledge and insights as her own.

I will say I enjoyed the opening having Morgan Freeman just wanting to set up the scene then sit back and enjoy the show as they tore down the senator's life.  Watching the traitorous p.o.s. squirm going from "I don't know what you're talking about" to "my entire world and my family's world is gone".

This is a stupid thing to say but everything Joe went through was not enough for her character to be this disheveled.
Shouldn't she be the toughest of them all...I went back to watch S01E02 and looked at what Cruz training exercise looked like - that felt more intense and heavy than everything here. Assuming Joe went through similar exercises and maybe even similiar situations in theater I just can't help thinking she should've been tougher.

Again with the Ukrainian agent...ffs.
Don't they realize that they basically say that - in a U.S. military tv show - the CIA and U.S. military complex completely got played...that they had no idea what the f**k was going on and are probably the joke of the spy world right now.
Sitting in Morgan Freeman's office and all cool she says "the Senat made a report"...blah blah, the bigwig of the Lioness programm had to rely on information from her hubby otherwise she can't do anything herself?? Pathetic...

They all need to go back to spy school imho...

I don't think its intentional - I think its how Taylor Sheridan intended to do exposition to being the dimwits in the audience up to speed but...

Kidman's husband had to once again WALK HER THROUGH the players, the planning and the thinking.  His firm had already done all the work, all the report etc.  He had the answer and could have given it to her.  But instead it was like walking a kid through the steps of doing their math homework (or a liberal on the evils of socialism in America).  He had to take her step, by step, by step through it like he's mentoring an underling.

Not talking about if the geo-political landscape is true to the real world - But the mythos of the show geo-politics.  She should know this.  She's paid to be the head of this group.  And she didn't see what was right in front of her, the audience and Kyle (The team 'Ken Doll'). For the purpose of the show thinking "Oh yeah, the Ukranian double agent might have played us." just never came to her mind.  Airhead.

In the past they've had the husband share a bit here and there, walk here through things so as to not just break the firm's NDA all that - but this time it was just REALLY painful to watch her be so slow on the uptake.

And then... He gives her all this to basically save her reputation (and probably her job), the team's position, lives of operators, move forward... And she can't offer any kind of "thank you" for the insight.  Not a literally "thank you" in words.  Not "I'm going to go take a bath" with a "<care to join me?>" on the back end.  I mean... sheeyit the guy at least deserves a happy ending to his night for saving her like that.