Lioness Sets Season 2 Premiere Date, Shares First Look at Genesis Rodriguez’s New Character
The Paramount+ military drama fka Special Ops: Lioness will deploy its second season on Sunday, Oct. 27, with the first two episodes of eight.
Hailing from the prolific Taylor Sheridan and inspired by an actual U.S. Military program, Lioness (as the series was retitled for Season 2) follows CIA station chief Joe McNamara (played by executive producer Zoe Salda?a) as she attempts to balance her personal and professional life as the tip of the CIA’s spear in the war on terror.
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The series also stars Laysla De Oliveira (who played Season 1’s titular operative, Marine Raider Cruz Ma?uelos), executive producer Nicole Kidman, Morgan Freeman, Michael Kelly, Dave Annable, Jill Wagner, LaMonica Garrett, James Jordan, Austin Hébert, Jonah Wharton, Thad Luckinbill and Hannah Love Lanier.
New to the Season 2 mix, Bruce McGill (Reacher) will play NSA Chief Damian Hollar, Jennifer Ehle (Law & Order: Organized Crime) is Chief of Staff Mason, and Genesis Rodriguez (The Umbrella Academy) will play Captain Josephina “Josie” Carillo, a fierce and dedicated helicopter pilot.
“It’s a strange relationship” that Joe and Josie share, series lead Salda?a previewed for People.com. “There’s a lot of mistrust from the beginning.”
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In addition to her Season 3 Umbrella Academy run as Sloane Hargreeves (who was conspicuously absent from the show’s recent final season), Rodriguez’s previous TV credits include Quibi’s The Fugitive, ABC’s Time After Time and episides of SVU and Entourage.
At the time of its July 2023 debut, Lioness, Paramount+ says, set a new record as the streamer’s most-watched worldwide series premiere, with nearly six million total viewers in its first week (across Paramount+ globally and a linear preview on the Paramount Network).
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