#Special Ops: Lioness spoilers

[caliphoria17]

“Come here.”

Aaliyah x Cruz

[helen-everythingqueer]

𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐎𝐩𝐬: 𝐋𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 e𝑝2𝑥07: 𝐶𝑟𝑢𝑧 𝑥 𝐽𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑒

[cloudsonclouds]

OH NO! She got her charm from her father!

[triyal]

bold of cruz to assume aaliyah will live long enough to have kids tbh

they were gonna kill this girl for refusing an arranged marriage, how do you think they'll react to her getting fooled into letting a CIA assassin infiltrate her wedding???

Special Ops: Lioness - 1x08

[comic-book-jawns]

Cruz & Aaliyah || “Wish the Fight Away”

Special Ops: Lioness 1.07

[aliliebert]

[specerhastings]

[theyvegotnobreeches]

Lioness S2 EP7

[alienpussycat]

IF YOU DON’T LET ME SUCK YOUR DICK, IM GONNA KILL MYSELF!! TAKE YOUR PANTS OFF RIGHT NOW!!!

[caliphoria17]

HOLY MOTHER OF—

[broody-yellow-pillow]

Honestly thought Cruz x Josie was just going to be teased or they were going to just have tension. They’ve got further than I thought they would and I’m totally here for it.

Something I really like (if they become a full fledged thing) is that they’ll be able to talk to each other about what went down on missions. Which will be a nice contrast to see vs the secrecy that Joe and even Kaitlyn have to maintain with their significant others.

[hoooebot]

they are hiding Cruz from all these season 2 stills and even the trailer, her season 2 arc must be big. but still, I spot her in these 2 scenes.

looks like joe's shady ass is about to gaslight her back to the mission in Mexico since all the other gringos in the QRF can not .

good to know she still hates joe (as she should! yas queen, pull your gun out with your strong arms and point at joe

[booasaur]

Special Ops: Lioness - 1x07

[leighlew3]

1) that lioness season finale did not feel like a finale. Also I do feel like someone on the team should have died 💀

2) I’m finally feeling up to watching tv after my surgery so I watched lioness and now the cowboys

3) LETS GO COWBOYS!!!

It was interesting and a tad unusual that no one died. Usually there's some sort of a sacrificial lamb in the climax of most stories like this. Though, I'm happy everyone made it out alive, for the most part. But see, it felt to me like they wrote and shot it in a way that works as a series end, if there's no third season.

Everyone survived the biggest battle of their lives.

The top brass successfully made a major chess move that provided them a renewed sense of hope in the overall war(s) they're fighting.

Cruz and Carrillo had an open future as a couple.

Joe looked out in relief and bittersweet emotion over her shot up team that somehow survived, after she herself faced and re-risked death and also survived.

Joe's husband welcomed her back and said she'll “always have a home" (with him/them).

They could end the show there, where we can rest assured that everybody had as much of a "happy ending" as possible, aka living on to fight another day.

If they greenlight a third season? I'll be THRILLED. I need more of this show. Though, it'll be hard to top everything they've done thus far. But I'll be waiting and watching with bells on!

And yes, GO COWBOYS.

[aliliebert]

[overkill-max]

Special Ops: Lioness Season 2 - Josie

Spoilers after the cut if you haven’t seen Episode 3

I am still disappointed we haven’t seen Cruz yet, but I do understand why. We need to see things from the new Lioness’ perspective. And what a contrast. I love that the show always gives us contrasting characters that mirror each other. Now we see how different Cruz’s introduction was to Josie. Cruz thought that “if you ain’t cheatin’ you ain’t tryin’.” She wanted to prove to Joe so badly that she was what Joe was looking for that from the start Joe wanted to break her because she thought it wasn’t enough. Then, in the middle of the mission, because of how Joe treated her, she had doubts and told Joe she “wasn’t cut out for this.”

Then we have Josie, who from the start told Joe she didn’t want to be a Lioness. That she heard about it and no one ever came back. She knows if she says she loves her country she is signing her own death warrant. She wants to keep flying and serving her country, she doesn’t want to die for it in the way that Joe wants. So she lies and says she doesn’t know Spanish, she doesn’t know why her family has nice things. The family she never talks to, the family she isn’t close to.

And Joe keeps pushing until she gets a yes. That Josie will sign up for a program she doesn’t believe in, for a mission to destroy her family. For someone that follows the rules because he family always saw themselves above it, I can see why she would hate to do anything that colors outside the lines.

This is a problem for Joe, because she doesn’t care, she has a mission and everyone is expendable.

I love that Josie thinks that everyone is just as big of an asshole as Joe. And we see how before they liked Cruz and got along with her, she was a Marine and they went on a mission with her. They bonded. Things were probably different with Isabel (the first lioness we saw get killed). Then we see Josie who gets the cold shoulder and is thrown from captain to having to dress in a pantry because she wants privacy, something she was given due to her rank versus basic, something she alludes to.

The slow stripping of who she was, so that Joe can get her lioness is brilliant as it is cruel. Because at the end of the day, Joe tells Josie that she doesn’t care about others, she will kill a teenager if that gets her what she wants. She will even get Josie into trouble with the country she has been protecting for years to get what she wants. So either you’re a mole for your family or you’re a mole for us. Decide if you want to live a little longer in jail or with the illusion of freedom.

And I miss Cruz, but I do like seeing how different things are for Josie. How can you manipulate someone who has a family into dying for your mission? How do you manipulate someone that lied to protect herself, her family, into destroying that same family? You break them, little by little, you torture them by taking away the comradery the military offered them, the rank, and the one thing they’re good at, and then, when she realizes she’s out of her depth, like she said she would be, you continue to take more, until there’s nothing left. That’s when you really recruit her.

You break her again and again until she gives you what you need.

I miss Cruz but I’m also glad she’s not here, because Joe is even more brutal than ever. I can’t wait for next week’s episode.