Lioness Renewed for Season 2 Despite Taylor Sheridan Helmed Series Beating Yellowstone in Viewership
In the war of streaming services, every major platform wants to create something exceptional that keeps audiences engaged with their services. On the Paramount Pictures side of things, Special Operations: Lioness Became a flagship series with a select few featuring Zoe Saldaña and Laysla De Olivera that made public tune in to Paramount+.
Along with the star cast, also manages the project Yellowstone Producer Taylor Sheridan, who has exceeded expectations with this series with a change in style, making it one of the most successful in terms of viewers. But despite all these positives, Saldana is still unsure if the show will be renewed for another season.
Zoe expresses doubts about Saldaña’s renewal Special Operations: Lioness for another season
While screenwriter and director Taylor Sheridan may be one of the few prolific figures to dabble in the Western genre in modern times, he hasn’t been shy about trying other projects with different themes. This proved true when Zoe Saldana and Lesla de Oliveira made headlines with their performances in the director’s most recent spy thriller series. Special Operations: Lioness.
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In fact, the show was so extraordinarily well-done that it surpassed Sheridan’s success in achieving it. Yellowstone, which is considered by most to be his masterpiece in terms of sheer viewership. And yet, it seems that this wasn’t enough to get the show renewed for a second season, only made more clear by the fact that Saldana doesn’t believe it will happen.
In a recent interview with ComicBook, The Guardians of the Galaxy The star revealed that she has doubts about her show getting a second season due to the recently ended SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes. She said:
“I’ve heard things here and there. I certainly hope so. We were nervous, especially Nicole (Kidman) and I. We had hope. We were very optimistic that this would find its community. But it is run by women, where women are at the helm. And they wear hats that men usually wear. And then when we started our promotion, our press tour for it, we went on strike.
The silver lining about this situation is that nothing is set in stone, which means there is still a chance that a second season will be announced in the coming weeks or months.
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what’s that Special Operations: Lioness About?
Sheridan takes a different route from his familiar neo-western take on it YellowstonePeople had low expectations from this spy thriller, which proved wrong with the release of the show.
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The series is based on declassified CIA files, which outline the formation of an all-female special and covert operations team known as ‘Team Lionesses’ to assist troops in Iraq in 2003 with patrols and espionage. Because terrorist organizations used women. Insurgents in war zones Back in the day, male soldiers had a hard time investigating them because they were women and Muslim.
Special Operations: Lioness, Streaming on Paramount+.
