In today’s episode of Bingeworthy, our TV and streaming podcast host Mike DeAngelo goes deep undercover while discussing “Lioness.” The Taylor Sheridan-created Paramount+ series follows a CIA operative who leads a top-secret team meant to infiltrate and execute the most dangerous targets around the world. The tense, action-packed series stars Zoe Saldana, Nicole Kidman, Morgan Freeman, Michael Kelly, Genesis Rodriguez, and more. 

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In two weeks, Taylor Sheridan takes over TV all over again when “Lioness” Season 2 premieres on Paramount+ later this month. So what’s in store for audiences as the CIA’s secretive program continues its fight against terrorism?

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The show’s new sneak peek doesn’t too much away, but it boats new footage from the upcoming season.  Zoe Saldaña and Nicole Kidman return for Season 2, which sees the Lioness program focus on a target closer to US borders and requires them to enlist a new recruit for their team.

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Can a recently recruited operative help the Lioness program? The upcoming season of “Lioness” sees the team facing a mysterious threat. Their new member is tasked with a dangerous mission, as Joe (Zoe Saldaña), Kaitlyn (Nicole Kidman), and Byron (Michael Kelly) provide much-needed support. Meanwhile, Joe faces difficulties in colliding with her personal and professional interests. 

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Zoe Saldaña, Laysla De Oliveira, Michael Kelly, Morgan Freeman, and Nicole Kidman once again star in the Paramount+ series.

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In the grand tradition of “The Godfather” and “Scarface,” similarly modernistic versions influenced by the same works like James Gray’s early New York crime films and augmented by the dilapidated layer of grimy bleakness derived from “The Batman” franchise, Matt Reeves’ “The Penguin,” is a bruising dramatic crime tragedy about the myth of the American dream and its modern decay.

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Back in March, news broke that Vanessa Kirby would reunite with her “The Crown” director Benjamin Caron for the new Netflix pic “Night Always Comes.”  Now we know who’ll join the actress onscreen, and it’s quite the ensemble.  

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Jennifer Jason Leigh, Zack Gottsagen, Stephan James, Julia Fox, Eli Roth, Randall Park, and Michael Kelly will join Kirby in the upcoming film a thriller centered on America’s current housing crisis.

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Say what you will about the melodramatic, often episodic, and currently-stretched-thin writing of Taylor Sheridan, the multi-hyphenate Paramount+ impresario; not only does he know how to craft a gripping opening sequence, he knows how to elegantly employ it to launch an entire story, character arc and plot of a show.

Known for his acclaimed gritty and muscular screenwriting (the Academy Award-nominated “Hell Or High Water,” “Sicario”)— and seemingly writing, running, overseeing, and managing a dozen Paramount+ shows, including the hit series “Yellowstone”— his latest is the CIA espionage thriller, “Special Ops: Lioness.” Zoe Saldaña (“Guardians Of The Galaxy”) stars as Joe, the Lioness Program director tasked with training, managing, and leading her female undercover operatives in covert missions around the world.

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John Krasinski may be the fifth actor to portray Tom Clancy‘s CIA analyst Jack Ryan over the years, but he’s one of the most popular.  Prime Video‘s “Jack Ryan” has quite the fanbase, and now, their wait is over. Season 3 of the series hits the streamer later this month, just in time for the holidays.

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And the third season of “Jack Ryan” sees the character on the tail of a rogue Russian faction, only for him to wind up with his government issuing a Red Notice for his arrest.

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While the filmmakers behind Showtime’s two-part “The Comey Rule” have clearly overestimated the public’s desire for— uhhh, gestures in the general direction of anything and everything in entertainment vaguely resembling the Trump Shitshow, any ancillary offshoots (see the Fox News portrait “The Loudest Voice”) and generally, politics in the corrosive age of toxic politics— writer/director Bill Ray’s “The Comey Rule” does open up with a good, if simplistic, bit and intriguing question.

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Pick a Donald Trump scandal? Pick your poison cause there’s so damn many of them. But the one that arguably kicked-off everything, that led to the Mueller trial and the case for impeaching the President—which of course happened, even if the partisan Republicans didn’t vote to find him guilty—is the firing of Ex-FBI Director James Comey. It’s been one of the many, many firings during the chaotic and unstable four-year, hopefully, one-term Trump presidency and repeat offense: anytime someone ruled in a decision that wasn’t in favor to Trump or not as “loyal” as the presidential crime mafia boss would like, he fired them.

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Last Friday saw the long-awaited final season of Netflix’s first true major original series, “House of Cards.” After the sudden departure of series star Kevin Spacey, following sexual assault allegations, many fans wondered just what would happen in the final batch of episodes and if the series would be able to stick the landing, so to speak. To be generous, let’s just say the final season has decidedly mixed reviews.

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It hasn’t long for Netflix to react to the allegations of sexual misconduct and assault that have levelled at Kevin Spacey. While it was reportedly in the works since the summer, the streaming service announced yesterday that the sixth season of hit “House Of Cards” will be its last. Now, news is emerging that the brand might find new life, but without Spacey’s involvement.

Much like HBO is doing with “Game Of Thrones,” Netflix is developing a handful of spinoffs for “House Of Cards.” At the top of the list is a potential series revolving around Frank Underwood’s ruthless aide Doug Stamper, played by Michael Kelly, with Eric Roth (“Forrest Gump,” “The Insider,” “Munich“) penning the script.

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**Some spoilers throughout, but if you’re caught up through season four, you’re good to go.**

Who still watches “House Of Cards,” Netflix’s melodrama of power-hungry political intrigue and Machiavellian deceit and corruption? I’m not sure as most people I know don’t. Most cinephiles and savvy PeakTV tuned into the show in the first place because of filmmaker David Fincher’s involvement as a director and producer.

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The rise of “Black Mirror” has been a fascinating thing to watch. It first aired fairly quietly in the fall of 2011 on the U.K.’s Channel 4, with a short run of three episodes. It hailed from creator Charlie Brooker who, though he had a couple of TV series behind him (hipster satire “Nathan Barley,” co-created with “Four Lions” helmer Chris Morris, and zombie-reality-TV miniseries “Dead Set”), was best known as a TV critic and on-air personality.

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Until last month at the Toronto International Film Festival, I had never watched an episode of the acclaimed anthology series “Black Mirror.” But after viewing the two episodes of season three — “San Junipero” and “Nosedive“ — I was hooked. Sharp, smart, dark, and funny, the show from Charlie Brooker is lots of fun and I’m eager to dive into the past seasons as soon as I can.

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Review: ‘House Of Cards' Season 4 Hits A Fever Pitch Of Betrayal, Deceit & Duplicity

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Venice Review: 'Everest' Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin, Robin Wright, Sam Worthington, Keira Knightley, Jason Clarke, More

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Christoph Waltz Has 'Tulip Fever,' 'Game Of Thrones' Actor Is The New Frank Martin In 'Transporter 4' & More

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