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Lioness Recap: Apocalypse Soon


Cruz and Josie bond, lioness to lioness.

Through the fog of its incessant sociopolitical incoherence (also nothing short of ur-typical of the militant-spy genre), each episode delivers an even mix of A-list scenery chewing, insane dialogue, and small-screen action that actually kinda rips. There is just the upper hand,” Cruz tells Josie Carillo in this week’s lynchpin scene, making the sunk-cost case for American global dominance in its waning days while unwittingly presenting herself as Joe’s ticket out of the endless cold-war games. Pablo has a clear top-view of America’s looming collapse, but he ends his speech with an ominous appeal to the new empire soon to rise from the ashes of the old one — thinking on the same scales of survival of dominance as Josie and her newfound nest of spies.

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