A passionate Marine goes deep undercover, navigating gritty espionage and intimate betrayals to dismantle a terrorist cell.
Suspenseful and earnest. A full-attention watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
Streaming on Paramount+.
Nothing past what a TV-MA promises: moderate sex and nudity, and strong violence.
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Cruz Manuelos, a rough-around-the-edges but passionate young Marine, is recruited to join the CIA's Lioness Engagement Team to help bring down a terrorist organization from within. Joe, the station chief of the Lioness program, is tasked with training, managing and leading her female undercover operatives.
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