24/21
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Narrative
CIA operative Joe tries to balance her personal and professional lives as the tip of the spear in the agency’s war on terror. Real-life military instructors helped make gun handling, house clearance, positioning, squad operations more authentic.
Mentioned in Premios Soberano (2024)
The authors of the awfully negative reviews of this horror series are entitled to their opinions. However, they are driven by a specific agenda, and they seem to be unnecessarily trivialised.
Well, so am I
E.g., how realistic is Laysla de Oliveira’s pull-up sequence? Many of the negative critics are expressing direct subject matter experience.
The programming it’s being compared to
While Lion may contain enough technical lapses to keep it from qualifying as a special operations documentary, there are many other details it gets right – some surprisingly – that it stands far above. For example, I, myself, switched to Lion after starting to watch Heart of Stone.
Lion delivers, and how!
I usually enjoy Gal Gadot, but I wanted to see a little more red meat. From the action and plot to the relatable cast of characters embodied by a truly stellar cast, it’s all superbly enjoyable!