The flashy adventures, all over the world, of British secret service MI6’s dashing special ops team Section 20’s fearless hotshots. Scott and Stonebridge eagerly chase Latif, the Pakistani Al-Qaeda mastermind behind many terrorist crimes, but also other rogue threats to peace.Strike Back All Season Download.
At the same time, the whole thing feels a bit thinner and more formulaic than the previous incarnation. You can definitely see the ways that head writer Jack Lothian has played mix-and-match in distributing Scott and Stonebridge character traits to their male successors: here, it’s the British guy who’s more of a hothead, for instance. The decision to do a mixed-gender foursome rather than focus on two new dudes is mostly a smart one — the peak of the old show was when Rhona Mitra’s Rachel Dalton was co-lead with Scott and Stonebridge — but it means that all four of them get shorter shrift than any combination of two would. Novin’s the character who most clearly pops in the early going, but none of them feel particularly fleshed-out, and where the guys are at least given a competitive dynamic when they’re paired off (albeit one evoking their predecessors, who also liked to wager and keep score in the middle of firefights), the women are lagging, either teamed with each other or either guy.
Stonebridge and Scott (whose adventures are available On Demand if you’re a Cinemax subscriber, or on Amazon Prime for three of their four seasons) were never written with the complexity of a Walter White, but they felt real enough to ground a lot of the ridiculous things they did. New Strike Back doesn’t have that depth yet, even as it makes a good faith effort to render the villains (both the main terrorists and the bosses that Section 20 has to beat along the way) into more than just cartoons. As a result, it so far feels only as good as it needs to be, which is a step down from what the prior incarnation showed it could do.