Lioness
Created by Taylor Sheridan
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. From TMDB
196 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy, TMDB reviews) · newest Oct 16, 2026 · last updated Oct 17, 2026 · How this works
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For the first season, the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 56% approval rating and an average rating of 6.1/10, based on 36 reviews. As of Apr 2025, the show has an overall Rotten Tomatoes rating of 73%. The website's critics consensus reads, "Zoe Saldaña provides the energy of a Lioness, but these Special Ops are largely derivative and unconvincing." On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 56 out of 100 based on 19 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Despite praising the performances of Laysla De Oliveira and Zoe Saldaña, Anita Singh of The Daily Telegraph criticized "the one thing that lets the show down is Nicole Kidman as a CIA boss, whose…
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60 of 196 · most liked firstHas the show “Lioness” always been this overtly pro MAGA or is it new this season? It’s just cheesy Like the Dems in the show are owned by russia. Yet today… we learn that Russia paid for Trump jrs wedding
negative · AI labelView post →🦁Knowledge Cleric Beau, AKA the Lioness, High Curator of the Cobalt Soul🦁 #WhatIfNein is my series in which I redesign the Mighty Nein as different classes. For more like this, check out the post below! #criticalrolefanart
neutral · AI labelView post →There was some size creep after I started with Sarabi, both Sarafina and Nala gained some beef on the Queen Mother. So, the big lioness has decided to show that she is the Big Lioness. n.n She will not be left behind. Art by @ramudey.bsky.social <3
neutral · AI labelView post →EF badge art: The Lioness 🟢 All 3 badge artworks will be available as limited prints at the Eurofurence Art Show!! #art #digitalart #furry #cyberpunk
neutral · AI labelView post →I got to do some illustrations for the @illumicrate.bsky.social edition of Song of the Lioness! one of my favourite childhood series, it was a dream to work on these!! ⚔️✨
neutral · AI labelView post →Song of the Lioness; limited edition quartet series done for @illumicrate.bsky.social ✨
neutral · AI labelView post →It is unbelievably bullshit that I'm looking as hot as I've ever looked in my entire life and instead of cuddling with a cute girl I am holed up in my room fleeing my family who're watching Lioness, the most CIA ass show in human history Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
negative · AI labelView post →Just finished the S1 finale of LIONESS and I swear to god if one more prestige TV series screws up basic references to financial markets without bringing me on as a consultant I am going to start doing no-knock raids on script supervisors across the greater Los Angeles area.
negative · AI labelView post →Some alternatives to the new HBO Harry Potter series: - Lioness Rampant - Percy Jackson - A Wrinkle In Time - Earthsea - The Dark Is Rising - Artemis Fowl - His Dark Materials - Sabriel - Circle of Magic - ElfQuest #TransRightsAreHumanRights #TransRightsAreWomensRights #ProtectTransKids
neutral · AI labelView post →I am all spy, Spies R Us in viewing series right now. Black Doves Day Of The Jackal Lioness The Agency
neutral · AI labelView post →To add to the list, Alanna from the Alanna The Lioness series also uses a ton of magic (and is in "school" - to be a knight yes, but it includes magic training), is presenting as a boy (to be able to be a knight), and has a real strong sense of justice! She's 10-13 in book one!
neutral · AI labelView post →Also, let's have some fun book series nostalgia, to remind ourselves that there's more to our lives & memories than the terfy wizard book! For me, mine were Animorphs, The Immortals & The Lioness series, Redwall, Nancy Drew and, of course, the Enchanted Forest Chronicles ^_^ (DRAGONSSS) And yours?
neutral · AI labelView post →See TV show, Lioness Season 2, on Paramount+. TV and dinner chit-chat with suck-ups at Mar-a-Lago is where Trump gets all his ideas.
neutral · AI labelView post →Today marks the start of our Song of the Lioness graphic novel Text QnA series with Sam Beck (sambeck.ca), graphic novel illustrator. This is the first of 3 interviews with SOTL staff members, and the finale will be a group live on Patreon! www.patreon.com/posts/sam-be... -Team Tammy
neutral · AI labelView post →Streaming platforms are churning a LOT of espionage TV series right now: In addition to "Slow Horses" (Apple TV+) there's "Lioness" (Paramount+), "Black Doves (Netflix), "Paris Has Fallen" (Hulu), "The Agency" (Paramount+) etc The spy genre has always been popular but I'm curious about this trend
neutral · AI labelView post →Omg! So tired. I must return to my rooms and watch LIONESS (so good) new series, this is season 2. I have arthritis in my hands and they are longing for a peaceful nights sleep. Nighty Night! Love, Rubi🎀
positive · AI labelView post →It’s hard to say who comes out of this show better. Former Lioness Jill Scott declares that the queen was Britain’s “manager” during the pandemic, which will be news to Chris Whitty. Kirsty Young reflects that she was very good at shaking hands.
neutral · AI labelView post →When people (rightly!) gush about Tamora Pierce's work, I feel like I only ever hear about her Song of the Lioness series and very little about the equally-as-wonderful Circle of Magic quartet. There's FIBER ARTS MAGIC and MAGICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY, people!!
neutral · AI labelView post →This American Life just had an episode on social media streamers at the Portland ICE facility. Plenty of stuff there from those right-wing streamers to clip and show Trump to get whatever Miller and Bovino want. With dessert episodes of Taylor Sheridan’s Lioness and Landman shows.
neutral · AI labelView post →I love Tamora Pierce, and I got into her writing through the Circle of Magic series, which is more diverse in characters and scope than Lioness Rampant (but does not have nearly as much gender-bending 😢). It might be a bit more accessible for shifting a kid away from HP.
neutral · AI labelView post →Lioness captain Leah Williamson and British popstar Olivia Dean at the Burberry show 💕 📸: leahwilliamsonn
neutral · AI labelView post →I'll tell you what's BS ....not one single TV show be it Landman, Yellowstone, Lioness, Only Murders in The Building, etc....not one single effing show ever shows anyone, not one person, ever charging their GD cell phones! EVER!
negative · AI labelView post →Flat color practice on the funny emo Lioness, this was just more of a practice also a show case update for my commission sheet i want to update on so enjoy the big lioness feet. #soles #feet #furryfeet #furrysoles #bigfemalesoles
neutral · AI labelView post →Ready to be starting my festive holiday audiobook list off today with The Beast Arises series, Lioness of the Parch, Drekki Flynt. Vulture Lord and War Storm relistens, then Dawn of Fire so far. There's lots of painting to do, and my ears require all the Warhammer they can get.
neutral · AI labelView post →Robin McKinley (The Blue Sword, The Hero and the Crown) Patricia McKillip (Riddle-master of Hed) Elizabeth Moon (Sheep-farmer’s Daughter) Lois McMaster Bujold (Sharing Knife series) Tamora Pierce (Song of the Lioness, Immortals)
neutral · AI labelView post →Highly recommend if you've never worked on a big-time TV show and want to learn how the sausage is made. I was in episodes of Landman and Lioness last year. Some long, boring days, but you get paid, the catering is great and you get a fun story about working background in scenes with famous actors.
neutral · AI labelView post →Either Magnolia Electric Co. the album or The Lioness, but some might be happy to know the next Hell World top 5 songs series is about Jason Molina.
neutral · AI labelView post →Started watching Lioness on Prime last week. Great show so far, and Kirk @realkidvicious.bsky.social just showed up! I didn't even know you were in this - that's how out of the damn loop I am.😆
positive · AI labelView post →#Bookvember Day 3 This is a tough one because there are so many! I've already talked about LotR, so maybe I will go with Tamora Pierce. The Song of the Lioness and the Immortals series were ones I loved as a young teen. I enjoyed the magic, the fantasy, and the fascinating world she built! 🧵
neutral · AI labelView post →Started watching season 2 of The Lioness and was immediately reminded of why I hate watching military type shows with my husband. “Oh look an MH6 Little Bird…” I don’t care bruh just shuddup and watch the show.
negative · AI labelView post →The Song of the Lioness series by Tamora Pierce. A girl destined to become a wizard switches place with her brother and instead trains as a knight. Coming of age YA stuff with a kick-ass female lead who grows a lot as a character over the course of the series.
neutral · AI labelView post →Was checking it out over the weekend. Worth it? Just finished Lioness and that show was an absolute banger. 9/10.
positive · AI labelView post →Lioness is the best show on TV right now. Incredible on so many levels. Acting, writing, action, cinematography.
positive · AI labelView post →Writing yourself into every series as the old guy who “knows things.” Yellowstone is terrible. Lioness is terrible. He’s terrible. All of his shows are terrible.
negative · AI labelView post →Isiqhaza II, Philadelphia, 2018 ... a striking self-portrait by 📸 : Zanele Muholi, South African visual activist from their acclaimed ongoing series, Somnyama Ngonyama ("Hail the Dark Lioness")
neutral · AI labelView post →Def more than vibes! His show Spec Ops: Lioness has a full throated defense of the War on Terror, an anti-abortion “god will decide” screed, and makes the second season villain Mexican cartels in bed with Iran AND China.
negative · AI labelView post →At this point #Lioness should be 2 hours cause damn it show me more 😂
positive · AI labelView post →Occasionally you can borrow a book from the Bod and look at this beauty!!! Zanele Muholi’s photography series Somnyama Ngonyama ("Hail the Dark Lioness") (2012–present). I had a delightful, and inspiring, hour in the Univ gardens with this today. (Pictures here with Rad Cam lawn & All Souls)
neutral · AI labelView post →For a show that's entirely jingoistic hooh-rah propaganda, Special Ops: Lioness has a lot of lesbian yearning
negative · AI labelView post →Mine (girl) loved Tamora Pierce Song of the Lioness series
neutral · AI labelView post →Gcina I, Somnyama Ngonyama (Hail the Dark Lioness) series, 2016 Zanele Muholi, 2016 www.yanceyrichardson.com/artists/zane... #art #photography
neutral · AI labelView post →Robin McKinley, especially The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown if your young reader likes “sword girl” books. Another good sword girl series w/ some School of Magic tropes: the Song of the Lioness quartet by Tamora Pierce.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tamora Pierce and Katherine Applegate are both YA authors who are openly affirming of trans people. Pierce has a trans character in one of her stories and even her most famous books (Lioness series) deal with gender and gender roles. Applegate has a trans daughter.
neutral · AI labelView post →My God, middle school me is amazed you’re reading his mind Now throw Robin McKinley’s The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown in there, plus Tamora Pierce’s Lioness series in there, and you’ve got my favorite books of the time entirely covered
neutral · AI labelView post →(Stands in front of mental bookcase for twenty minutes.) Treasure Island Pride and Prejudice Ender's Game Red Rising series Saxon Chronicles Iron Fey series Malediction series Song of the Lioness series Queen's Thief series I like series. 🤷🏻♀️ #RevPitwaiting #RevPit
neutral · AI labelView post →I still can’t believe yall didn’t tell me how good Thad looks in #Lioness #TVsky #Soapsky JT in a good ass series yall
positive · AI labelView post →Nicole Kidman, Zoe Saldana and the rest of the ladies of LIONESS turned out the looks for the season 3 premiere tomandlorenzo.com/2026/07/lays...
neutral · AI labelView post →Tamora Pierce Song of the Lioness series! I was introduced to them when I was in college but friends of mine grew up reading them. It was nice to see what kinds of books shaped them in their childhoods. It was my first dip into a fantasy series with a female protagonist and I loved it! #Bookvember
neutral · AI labelView post →We were supposed to have a Song of the Lioness series and I’m so angry at this timeline 😩 www.cbr.com/tamora-pierc...
neutral · AI labelView post →Lioness is a SHOW! Watching the finale and I’m STRESSED.
neutral · AI labelView post →Lioness is such a great fucking show.
positive · AI labelView post →10 Books/series to get to know me (🧵): 👑 The Folk of the Air series by Holly Black 💀 The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir 🗡 The Lioness Quartet by Tamora Pierce 🧚♀️ The Fairyland series by Catherynne M. Valente
neutral · AI labelView post →-The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -anything by Pratchett -The Princess Bride -The Last Unicorn -Ender's Game -Sandman -Good Omens -Lioness Rampant series -Matilda -the @datlow.bsky.social & @terriwindling.bsky.social fairytale antho series (incl Silver Birch Blood Moon) -Calvin and Hobbes
neutral · AI labelView post →The show “Lioness” on Paramount+ is so frigging GREAT!!!
positive · AI labelView post →Release Roundup, August 2026. | Name | Season | Date | Networks | Genres | Countries | | -------------------------------------------- | -------------- | --------- | ------------------ | -------------------------------------- | -------------------- | | Lioness | Season 3 | 8/2/2026 | Paramount+ | Action, Drama, Thriller…
neutral · AI labelView post →My special editions of The Lioness Quartet came today. This series was foundational to who I was growing up. I’m so happy to have these beautiful copies. Thank you to @tamorapierce.bsky.social for creating such powerful and lasting role models. It’s absolutely time for a reread. ❤️ #booksky
neutral · AI labelView post →#SFFChat I LOVED Tamora Pierce. I took out the Song of The Lioness series out from the library so often the library suggested my mother buy the books from them and offered a discount, lol.
neutral · AI labelView post →Paramount have been notably shovelling some right wing views into some series, so can’t say I’m particularly surprised. Notably Landman & second Lioness series, the plot is running along then characters launch into some right wing diatribe for a couple of minutes barely connected to the plot🤷🏻♀️
negative · AI labelView post →🔞Adoptable Open🔞 🦁good lady African Lioness🦁 SB: $25 ych.commishes.com/auction/show... #furry #nsfw #adoptable
neutral · AI labelView post →Tamora Pierce’s Song of the Lioness Quartet as a tv series is the absolute dream. The TPCU (Tamora Pierce Cinematic Universe) should be a thing that exists.
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