shredded the Sheridan-created show in a near-lethal takedown, where she calls out the series as “an unabashed work of military propaganda that positions the United States Armed Forces as the ‘strong’ who ‘protect the weak.'”Described by Paramount+ as being “inspired by an actual US Military program,” the show follows Joe (Zoë Saldaña) through her work and private life as “the tip of the CIA’s spear in the war on terror.” The series boasts boldfacers like Nicole Kidman (who executive produced as well) and Morgan Freeman.
It offers a fictionalized account of a group of female fighters who worked to root out women terrorists at the height of the War on Terror, after 9/11.
Saldana, along with her buddy Cruz (Laysla De Oliveira), go undercover to work to gain the trust of the women within that world.
Variety’s critic accused Sheridan of the wrong kind of female empowerment, regretting the lack of a “nuanced” approach to his female protagonists — essentially saying that their roles could easily have been written for men.
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