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Lioness
This wasn't the mission.
2023·3 Seasons·24 Episodes·★ 8.3
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.
LUXEN Decision Guide
Does this fit your time and taste?
Lioness combines covert operations with the personal cost of doing dangerous work. Joe's missions can involve deception, extraction, and violence, but the series keeps returning to the tension between professional duty and what those choices do to the people carrying them home.
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Who it is for
Best for viewers who like military and espionage dramas with character pressure, operational detail, and stories that take the emotional consequences of the mission seriously.
Commitment
Long-form commitment · 3 seasons
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Follow Joe's relationship with the people she recruits as closely as the mission itself; the human stakes are what make the operational decisions matter.
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The series
Seasons
Season 1
8 episodes
2023
Season 2
8 episodes
2024
Season 3
8 episodes
2026
Cast
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