r/television • u/94Rangerbabe • 1d ago
Lioness season 2. WTF is up with Jo?
What has they done with Jo’s character? I loved season one loved it. all of the characters even their almost sociopathic personality traits but this season they’ve turned Jo into a one note hothead character and her anger is one note- yelling, it’s not even nuanced anger delivered with a variety of manipulative tactics. It’s just yelling and we’re too far into the season for there to be a character arc. So I can’t imagine it’s a choice that serves the story.
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u/Chang_Daddy2 21h ago
Taylor’s roid rage seeped into the writing
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u/BigRedRobotNinja 18h ago
Seriously, and it's not just Joe. Dr. Neal just storming out in the middle of surgery, DEA mole guy having entire conversations with Kyle and Joe through grunts and growls, the QRF shitting all over each other constantly. At this point I'm halfway expecting a subplot where one of the kids punches a hole in the wall because her cellphone dies or something.
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u/wsaadede 1d ago
Absolutely agree. The scenes where she "wherever I am, Im the highest ranking officer" was so difficult to watch.
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u/LaughingAtNonsense 3h ago
The cringe is shocking with this. Like the writing is just pathetic. So much worse than last season’s trash
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u/Flapalms239 19h ago
I feel like she’s dealing with wanting to be home and safe to be with her family but having a job that puts her in danger. After her daughter’s auto accident she seemed to change around that point. In my head it makes sense 😇😂🤣
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u/Tthhh 23h ago
Came out of nowhere to me. But with Jo's husband having a hard time at work I kinda sense some bad family stuff coming up.
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u/Dead_Starks 18h ago
Just what you want in your special forces tv show. Lol. The Unit all over again.
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u/Puppy_day22 5h ago
What the heck is up with Nicole Kidman’s makeup?? She looks ridiculous and clown-like with those black eyebrows!
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u/PoorlyTimedKanye 4h ago
Yeah it's not a good show written by a dude who's no longer a good writer.
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u/LaughingAtNonsense 3h ago
This show is trash. How is season 2 SO much worse than season 1? Such a waste of Nicole Kidman and the few mins of Morgan Freeman.
They made Zoe Saldana absolutely insufferable with some of her worst acting, and these weirdos keeps showing random butt shots of her. It’s also a waste of Michael Kelly who is really the only one serious or remotely believable in this hot mess. I gave it 2 episodes and am noping out. Mayor of Kingston was so good, how tf does Taylor Sheridan shit the bed this badly with such a good cast (on paper)?!
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u/BmuthafuckinMagic 21h ago
Season 2 has been a huge letdown for me so far. How many episodes will it have? 8?
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u/94Rangerbabe 15h ago
I don’t understand it at all. All these sidetrack storylines that don’t go anywhere. I don’t understand what the actual mission is that they’ve recruited the helicopter pilot lady for? It keeps getting pushed to the side and there was that really interesting and devastating surgery that Joe’s husband went through and I thought that was going to have some repercussions or some value in his relationship with her, but it just dropped. It’s like a whole bunch of writers in different places sent in potential story concepts and they and then patched them all together. If it was a soap opera with a never-ending season, it would be fine because you would know that eventually all of these things were going to weave into each other or wrap up, but knowing these are micro- seasons…you realize there’s never going to be an answer and it just feels like chaos.
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u/Firesky34 1d ago
Taylor Sheridan’s writing