Don't be fooled by the hype from the early episodes. This is a preachy series about America Bad. Most of the storyline is actually contradictory to itself after a few episodes.
The first episode was heavy handed. A spy was discovered and killed by our forces before she could be killed by the enemy she had infiltrated. She made the mistake of having a Christian tattoo, which compromised her somehow in a Middle Eastern village where they kill people who have such tattoos, I guess.
The premise of the series main character is somewhat unbelievable, that a person who submits to a lifetime of serious abuse suddenly becomes the nation's greatest hope in the fight against 'something.' Mousy people often do not become, figuratively, the Rock of Gibraltar. And with each new episode it becomes obvious the that we are creating the people we are fighting, with completely irrelevant things thrown in, like date rape.
The number of extraneous felonies that go unreported in the series is very high; date rape, burglary, etc. This is in addition to a CIA kill team operating on U. S. soil, for our own good.
Also, this fight happens not in the trenches but on the beaches, country bars and expensive stores. The target of the story is literally a victim of her own culture, the poor little rich girl traveling the world before somehow being arrange-married and incarcerated in Riyadh to have babies, apparently never again to have freedom that she inexplicably has now. The message here seriously conflicts with itself, because she very much does not wear burkas with her friends on the beaches of the U. S.
I don't understand why the series devolves into sexuality, which has very little to do with terrorism or the Middle Eastern culture the Lioness is supposedly infiltrating. The story at first seemed interesting but devolved into a series of disconnected messes, almost as if each episode was created after the previous one was finished.
This isn't a Helen of Troy level love story, and so I don't understand the focus on an unlikely relationship between spy and spied-on. What are the chances of the romance developing as it does here? Considering the culture and demographics, pretty slim.
Besides, if the 'terrorist banker's' daughter was that easy to get someone next to, she'd be easy to track electronically as she spends her way across the U. S. and the world. We would have no need to become her bestie to find her dad. This scenario becomes more improbable each episode.
If you think this is a pro-America show, then apparently you have not seen episode 7. There were clear signs before that, but the anti-American speech by the husband at the end of that episode is very eye opening. We are getting blown up because we not only deserve it, but because we really are bad people who literally created the terrorists, who are just poor people trying to live their lives.
I resent that message, especially coming from Hollywood.
I thought episode 6 was silly, with the burglars being given a pocketful of cash each and a warning never to interfere with, what exactly? The entire scene was out of place and meaningless. If they were to write in about one of the CIA team stepping on gum that ultimately stopped their airplane cargo door from opening it would have had about the same effect.
The first episode was heavy handed. A spy was discovered and killed by our forces before she could be killed by the enemy she had infiltrated. She made the mistake of having a Christian tattoo, which compromised her somehow in a Middle Eastern village where they kill people who have such tattoos, I guess.
The premise of the series main character is somewhat unbelievable, that a person who submits to a lifetime of serious abuse suddenly becomes the nation's greatest hope in the fight against 'something.' Mousy people often do not become, figuratively, the Rock of Gibraltar. And with each new episode it becomes obvious the that we are creating the people we are fighting, with completely irrelevant things thrown in, like date rape.
The number of extraneous felonies that go unreported in the series is very high; date rape, burglary, etc. This is in addition to a CIA kill team operating on U. S. soil, for our own good.
Also, this fight happens not in the trenches but on the beaches, country bars and expensive stores. The target of the story is literally a victim of her own culture, the poor little rich girl traveling the world before somehow being arrange-married and incarcerated in Riyadh to have babies, apparently never again to have freedom that she inexplicably has now. The message here seriously conflicts with itself, because she very much does not wear burkas with her friends on the beaches of the U. S.
I don't understand why the series devolves into sexuality, which has very little to do with terrorism or the Middle Eastern culture the Lioness is supposedly infiltrating. The story at first seemed interesting but devolved into a series of disconnected messes, almost as if each episode was created after the previous one was finished.
This isn't a Helen of Troy level love story, and so I don't understand the focus on an unlikely relationship between spy and spied-on. What are the chances of the romance developing as it does here? Considering the culture and demographics, pretty slim.
Besides, if the 'terrorist banker's' daughter was that easy to get someone next to, she'd be easy to track electronically as she spends her way across the U. S. and the world. We would have no need to become her bestie to find her dad. This scenario becomes more improbable each episode.
If you think this is a pro-America show, then apparently you have not seen episode 7. There were clear signs before that, but the anti-American speech by the husband at the end of that episode is very eye opening. We are getting blown up because we not only deserve it, but because we really are bad people who literally created the terrorists, who are just poor people trying to live their lives.
I resent that message, especially coming from Hollywood.
I thought episode 6 was silly, with the burglars being given a pocketful of cash each and a warning never to interfere with, what exactly? The entire scene was out of place and meaningless. If they were to write in about one of the CIA team stepping on gum that ultimately stopped their airplane cargo door from opening it would have had about the same effect.
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