Cruz Manuelos, a rough-around-the-edges but passionate young Marine, is recruited to join the CIA's Lioness Engagement Team to help bring down a terrorist organization from within. Joe, the station chief of the Lioness program, is tasked with training, managing and leading her female undercover operatives.
Joe attempts to balance her personal and professional life as the tip of the CIA's spear in the war on terror; the Lioness Program enlists Cruz to operate undercover alongside Joe among the power brokers of State terrorism.
Episode 1. Sacrificial Soldiers
2023-07-23 · 42 min
Things go awry for Joe and her team during a mission out in the field. Joe is left devastated. Upon her return home, Joe's family life presents it's own challenges. Cruz tries to escape a dangerous situation. Joe must choose an agent.
Episode 2. The Beating
2023-07-23 · 43 min
Joe continues her training with Cruz whose methods are questionable. Cruz starts to build a relationship with Aaliyah. Kate gets into a fight during her soccer game. Neal has to deliver difficult news to a patient.
Episode 3. Bruise Like a Fist
2023-07-30 · 43 min
Cruz is invited to spend the weekend with Aaliyah and her inner-circle. Joe keeps Kaitlyn informed of Cruz's progress. Kyle comes to Joe desperate for help with an asset.
Episode 4. The Choice of Failure
2023-08-06 · 42 min
Cruz is put in a compromising position while out with Aaliyah and friends in the Hamptons, causing Joe and Kaitlyn to doubt her. Kaitlyn and Westfield confront Kyle over what happened at the border, complicating things further for Joe and…
Episode 5. Truth Is the Shrewdest Lie
2023-08-13 · 39 min
Joe and Neal deal with the aftermath of Kate's accident. Westfield and Kaitlyn deploy Joe's team to subdue a terrorist threat. Cruz's cover may be in jeopardy.
Episode 6. The Lie Is the Truth
2023-08-20 · 42 min
Aaliyah bonds with Cruz over a spa day. Bobby, Tex, Two Cups, Randy and Tucker confront a threat at the Safe House. Kaitlyn and Joe are scolded for the San Antonio mission in a debrief.
Episode 7. Wish the Fight Away
2023-08-27 · 48 min
While shopping in Manhattan for the wedding, Aaliyah and Cruz get closer. Kate returns home only to say goodbye to her mom once again. Joe guides Cruz through internal struggle and doubt in completing the mission.
Episode 8. Gone Is the Illusion of Order
2023-09-03 · 58 min
Unforeseen circumstances leaves the mission in jeopardy. A suspicious Ehsan confronts Cruz before his wedding day. Joe and the team prepare for the worst.
Season 2
8 episodes · 2024
In Season 2, as the CIA's fight against terror moves closer to home, Joe, Kaitlyn, and Byron enlist a new Lioness operative to infiltrate a previously unknown threat. With pressure mounting from all sides, Joe is forced to confront the profound personal sacrifices she has made as the leader of the Lioness program.
Episode 1. Beware the Old Soldier
2024-10-27 · 44 min
Joe, Kyle, and the QRF team embark on a timely extraction after a high-ranking government official is kidnapped by a cartel.
Episode 2. I Love My Country
2024-10-27 · 47 min
After a new Lioness is identified, Joe and her team travel to Iraq to close the asset.
Episode 3. Along Came a Spider
2024-11-03 · 52 min
Kaitlyn works to drum up support for their plan. Meanwhile, Lioness training begins for Captain Josie Carrillo.
Episode 4. Five Hundred Children
2024-11-10 · 47 min
Joe and Kyle make contact with a potential new source of intel. A newly expanded team conducts a hit with unanticipated results.
Episode 5. Shatter the Moon
2024-11-17 · 46 min
The warehouse discovery rattles the team. Joe is torn between two urgent missions.
Episode 6. 2381
2024-11-24 · 50 min
Events come to a head at the Carrillo estate faster than expected. Josie makes her move.
Episode 7. The Devil Has Aces
2024-12-01 · 57 min
Despite Joe's weakened state, the team is forced back to Iraq to make a point.
Episode 8. The Compass Points Home
2024-12-08 · 52 min
Operation Sky Hawk is a go as Kaitlyn and Westfield pressure Pablo to side with them.
Season 3
8 episodes · 2026
In Season Three, hidden networks, foreign operatives, and personal betrayals collide. Joe walks the line between duty and home as unseen forces circle her world. Patterns appear where they shouldn't, names vanish, and paths rearrange. Guided by Kaitlyn and Westfield, Joe confronts enemies operating in the shadows, leaving her to reckon with a war that now…
Amazed this has such a high rating. I managed about 20 minutes of this, loaded down as it is, with what I view as cynical propaganda for US military exceptionalism.
Suffice to say, I could find little to like. From the US military asserting its right to invade and occupy, other nations, through to the US poor being more or less, forced into military service, as an escape from domestic abuse and poverty. Pretty depressing stuff.
Acting is fine and clearly money has been spent, on the action scenes, military equipment and more.
In summary, a depressing series, that see's US exceptionalism, taking centre stage, once again.
My favorite actor is the wax doll that vaguely resembles a younger Nicole Kidman. It's amazing what they can do with animatronics these days. Even though they clearly have very little mechanics to mimic human facial expressions, at times, it almost appears human!
BTW, this rating is for season one. It's quite good. I just started season two, and I'm abandoning it before the end of episode one. It's utter trash, zero stars. Just watch season one and pretend the show was canceled after that. It basically canceled itself artistically with season two.