This story contains spoilers for Silo.
Have people suddenly developed an interest in farming? Why is everyone I know talking about silos?! Well, folks, I dug around—and there's no agricultural revolution. Turns out, all of your friends are obsessed with Silo, a new Apple TV+ drama about a mysterious, post-apocalyptic future. The 10-episode series follows a community of people who, after discovering that the air on Earth is poisonous, are forced to live in a massive silo.
Say what you will about Taylor Sheridan, but the guy is a bonafide hit-maker. Yellowstone and its spinoffs single-handedly revived westerns on television. He's since courted Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, Jeremy Renner, and Sylvester Stallone to his cadre of Paramount+ original series, and the runaway train is showing no signs of stopping. Sheridan is a one-man army—which makes the writer's new series, Special Ops: Lioness, his latest war.
Lioness focuses on a special CIA program that sends undercover female operatives into (what certainly seems like) one of the most dangerous situations on Earth.
When we last left team Lioness, Joe (Zoe Saldaña) and Cruz (Laysla De Oliveira) escaped one dangerous situation just to find themselves in an even scarier one. Joe's little torture lesson left Cruz beaten and bruised at a pool party, forcing audiences to question just how prepared this undercover CIA unit was for the task at hand. Special Ops: Lioness began with an undercover mission gone wrong—and the new Taylor Sheridan Paramount+ series may be gearing up to show us another one.
During last week's episode of Special Ops: Lioness, we learned that working as an undercover CIA operative is an insane job to choose. It wrecks your family life, puts you in constant danger, and provides too many opportunities for your multiple bosses to be mad at you. It's like being a superhero... but you have no special powers and all of your targets are assigned to you by the government, no questions asked.
Boy, did Special Ops: Lioness fans receive A LOT of information last episode. You'd think a spa day would be chill, but creator Taylor Sheridan made sure that it was jam-packed with perilous updates. The wedding where everyone is supposed to die by way of a US drone strike is now happening in Majorca instead of Kuwait. Plus, Cruz may or may not be in love with her mark. Uh-oh. Also, Morgan Freeman finally showed up as the Secretary of State—and said a bunch of badass stuff, as if we'd expect nothing less from the legendary actor.