I'd be like, it should just be written like we’re men. In terms of the dialogue, “I'd always fight for it. When this was pointed out to Sumarwata and McKee, Sumarwata theorized, “It does probably play that way at first when you watch it, I think, maybe because they were trying to stay true to the genre of the show.”
As such, one may notice that there’s room for improvement in terms of finding parity with the personality portraits of the men and the women, especially in this season’s opening episodes. That said, the frequently FUBAR nature of Section 20’s missions enables viewers to invest in the characters. Production for this season took place in Jordan, Croatia and Hungary, for example.
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It’s also a series with plot arcs extending through entire seasons with unpredictable twists, and narratives spurred along by a do-or-die mission as opposed to poetic dialogue or character backstory.Įpisodic tension is derived from speeding from one deadly confrontation to another, in a series of near-miss pursuits of villains bent on destabilizing nations that sends the team to far-flung locales around the globe. They're all a little bit serious.”īassett’s focus has always been to ensure that the show feels like a “wild ride” first and foremost. When we went, I expected to see another kick-ass military show come along and nothing did. “It fills a gap in the television world which nothing else exists within. “This show wants to be an entertainment,” Bassett continued. “The soldiers come and go, but the ambitions of what both the show and those characters within the show want to do remains ultimately the same." “Section 20, the ‘Strike Back’ concept is something which is kind of universal,” executive producer and director MJ Bassett told Salon in a recent interview. This is as much of a testament to the appeal of the new cast as the series’ resilient structure. debut on Cinemax, where it airs Fridays at 10 p.m., and thus far the new “Strike Back” feels very much like it always has. Two episodes of the new 10-part season have made their U.S. In contrast to White House policy, Section 20 views far-right white nationalists as equal threat to other extremists with the first two episodes the action sprints from confronting a terrorist cell in Libya (actually Jordan apparently the king is a big fan of the show) to chasing down far-right extremists in Europe. Rough-and-ready Gracie Novin (Alin Sumarwata) and the more refined Captain Natalie Reynolds (Roxanne McKee) stand beside field operatives Thomas “Mac” McAllister (Warren Brown, from “Luther”) and Samuel Wyatt (Daniel MacPherson).Īnd it’s Reynolds, not McAllister or Wyatt, who is the ranking agent leading the team into places where the regular British and American armies will not tread.
This Stonebridge-and-Scott-free “Strike Back” doubles the team from two agents to a four and, more significantly, adds two female leads to the mix. Think Jason Bourne, minus the brainwashing and refinement but with added humor, scruff and random sex scenes.
Though Stonebridge and Scott weren’t the original “Strike Back” duo, the pair personified show’s engine: two guys linked in a platonic work marriage requiring them to blow stuff up and kick international criminals and terrorists in the face. Soldiers can’t outrun bullets and fire forever, and the actors playing them eventually move on.īut where “Strike Back” found success in previous seasons was in capitalizing upon the buddy action partnership of Sergeant Michael Stonebridge (Philip Winchester) and former Delta Force operative Damien Scott (Sullivan Stapleton), a relatively staid British specialist (played by an American actor) partnered with a wild-man American (played by an Aussie). A certain amount of resupplying a show’s roster is to be expected of a series about a covert special operations force. Its current incarnation represents the drama’s sixth season overall, and fifth as a Cinemax entity, and features an entirely new cast. Generally, shows returning to the air after an extended hiatus contend with a portion of doubt among the faithful, especially if those fans are conditioned to associate them with a specific dynamic.Īnd “Strike Back” has a definite formula. “Strike Back,” Cinemax’s long-running military action ripper, is unlike most series.
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