I think this is a pretty awesome show. As an ex-military guy myself there is a lot of realistic portrayal of those in service and the vets afterwards. Jason is a bit whiney throughout the show and it's getting worse. He's more like a brooding millennial than a hardened warrior, but he still does a decent job. The rest of the cast is pretty awesome.
Personally I think it's one of the best shows on TV right now. It made me go back and watch some Bones and I realize that David Boreanaz must be kind of a jackass in real life because that personality comes through in all his characters.
I'm updating my review after getting through season 4...
Ok, so I still really like this show but it's starting to grate on my nerves a little with some of the nonsense. I'm starting to think they should re-title this as "The Flip Flop Guys".
Jason: He's on the team, he's off the team, he's on the team, he's off the team, he's on the team. I would be surprised if they let a tier 1 operator do this. They are supposed to be the best of the very best, this shows lack of commitment and indecisiveness, not what you are looking for in a tier 1 operator, but most certainly not what you want from a tier 1 team leader.
Jason Pt II: He's with Natalie, he's not, he's with Natalie, he's not, he is going to transfer with Natalie, he doesn't.
Clay: He's with Stella, he's not, he hates Stella, he loves her, he's back with her.
Sonny/Davis: They are together, they are not, they are together, they are not.
I mean, that's a lot of indecisiveness over the entire tier 1 team! Sure, some of it is nitpicking but still. I think the show forgot what made this show a hit in the first two and half seasons: watching bad-ass door-kickers beat the snot out of bad guys while in a tight-knit team of hardcore operators. Now it's a half-hearted, not-as-effective team that is dealing with one personal drama after another while the story goes in circles.
You can almost guarantee that the military isn't going to put up with this kind of nonsense from the very best in their numbers. There are lots of good warriors chomping at the bit to be a tier 1 operator, they aren't putting up with this much insubordination and this many team issues for very long.
I worry for the future of the show. It seems like they think door-kicking is repetitive and instead put us into a much less interesting repetitive personal drama story arc. It's like they have run out of material, and their viewer numbers are suffering as a result of them not thinking door kicking is what got them the audience - and now they are hoping that soap-opera military dramas get that audience back.
Let's face it, the military is 90% boring and 10% interesting. But there are still lots of good stories there. Personally I think that Jason quitting the team and being a SERES instructor would be an interesting storyline. His time is up, he's too old for this anyway.
Review by Kalebe AlvesBlockedParent2022-12-08T20:51:01Z
I love this show, even though I find it pretty one-sided the way they approach most subjects with some rare exceptions, but I guess the tactical, cqb, and some of the subplots are more than enough to compensate for that. I was missing some real military action ever since Strike Back ended(on season 5, those other seasons are not even worth the calories my brain spends thinking about). it's not as good as Strike back, but it serves.
but honestly, the show is kinda bad. Clichê and stereotyped as hell.
Someone should tell Clay that he should forget TBI and focus on cirrhosis. The only people I knew that drank as much as these guys drink in the show are entirely wasted drunk people at small bars and homeless people. Also, drinking while on the job... It amazes me how they say this is the best squad. If that were real life, they would most likely be discharged for operating drunk. Or not and that's the reason the US military kills so many innocent people in those "ops" as reported by many war journalists and leakers.
The show is kinda inconsistent as well. Like regarding vet health care issues. For someone that saw up close what denial and dismissiveness can do to a person in those conditions Clay quickly forgot that that is actually a thing and said or did nothing when he saw everyone acting the same way up close. The only moment where they kinda hint that he is more "aware of that" is when he saves Jason from an explosion and right after that keeps asking him for TBI symptoms, but aside from that, he basically ignores every situation where a teammate hides real and serious injuries, even the same ones related to TBI.
It's like they create the storyline, and character traits, but are pretty lazy to keep track, remember, and keep writing consistent with those traits a couple of episodes later.
Not to mention the whole plot where Jay questions his religious beliefs, and the resolution for that plot is exactly as ridiculous as the way it started. Right when I thought the show would try to go for a more interesting subplot... then boom... Right back at the status quo as if nothing had happened for practically no reason at all. That whole thing with the woman in the desert is a complete joke. It would be soo much more interesting if they had committed to the change, making him realize that he didn't need religious belief, or the be a religious person to be a better person, and a good teammate, instead of blaming his bad habits, and desire to cheat on that. Really... I almost stopped watching the show right there. That's at the same time, the best(due to its beginning) and the worst(for its resolution) subplots the show had so far.
Also, I just finished season 3 so I don't if this is kept the same way for the rest of the series, but I'm gonna go on a limb and say it anyway... for god sake, give real lines to the rest of the squadron, especially Brock. If you count the number of words Trent and Brock combined said the whole series so far, it will most likely not pass the lines for Clay on the first episode, where he is in just for a few minutes. They have 6 characters on the team but keep recycling plots between 4 of them. I guess they ran out of ideas pretty quickly. The worst part is that they joke about this in the show as if it made it better just because they are conscious of it. at least give them some personality.