Strike Back: Vengeance - Season 2 of the explosive action series - Fridays on Cinemax

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Season 2 of Strike Back kicks off this Friday, August 17th at 10pm ET on Cinemax. What's Strike Back all about? It's like watching a kick ass, hard-R 80's action movie every week. Lots of explosions, gratuitous sex, and pithy one-liners from a fun cast that enjoys what they're working on. The show is unabashedly entertaining and well worth a look. Most of the episodes are two-parters with an serialized season-long narrative and weekly cliffhangers. Season 2 starts up with two new episodes on Friday. Tune in and check it out.
Strike Back: Vengeance, as it is known in the United Kingdom (or Strike Back Season 2 in the United States) is an upcoming ten-part third series of Strike Back commissioned by Sky and Cinemax (the second year since Cinemax was brought on board to co-produce the show) in October 2011. The main cast for the series includes Philip Winchester, Sullivan Stapleton, Rhona Mitra, Michelle Lukes and Rhashan Stone. The series began filming in South Africa in January 2012, and will premiere on Cinemax on 17 August 2012 and on Sky1 in September.
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Featured Cast:
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Damien Scott - Played by Sullivan Stapleton

Damien Scott is a former Delta Force commando whose confidence with a weapon is matched only by his way with women. His cocky style is often at odds with his more staid colleagues, but he always gets the job done.

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Sgt. Michael Stonebridge - Played by Philip Winchester

A clear-thinking and reliable soldier, Sgt. Stonebridge brings strategic clout to Section 20.
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Supporting characters for S2:
- Rhona Mitra as Captain Rachel Dalton
- Rhashan Stone as Major Oliver Sinclair
- Michelle Lukes as Sergeant Julia Richmond
- Charles Dance as ?????​
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Links

S2 Trailers

Behind the Scenes videos

Production photos and posters:

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fuck yes Tywin

that brings the number of major GoT character in SB up to 3 now ^^
can't wait, rewatching the first season now (well the first cinemax one), still the best action series on TV right now
 
Sounds awesome, any word of the first season coming to Netflix streaming? I know they've done that in the past with Spartacus.
 
Season 2 last year had more gratuitous, well-made (and CGI-free) action than Stallone's shitty attempt at the same thing.
 
I'll be watching. I really enjoyed the second season. The writing was a bit iffy at times, but the cast is solid and the action scenes are fantastic. High point of last season for me was the climax to the hostage situation in episode 2. Such a well crafted sequence.
 
DirecTV is doing a free preview of Cinemax this weekend for the Strike Back premiere. I'm not sure if any of the other carriers are participating.
 
- Sepinwall Review: Cinemax's 'Strike Back' returns, still kicking butt and taking names
It's a show without pretensions. It knows exactly what it is — a straightforward blend of action and sex designed to appeal to people who already subscribed to Cinemax for one or both of those things — and doesn't apologize for that, but simply aspires to be the best version of itself that it can be. It is, as I realized midway through last season, much better than it has any need to be.
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Season premiere tonight!
Episode 1 & 2

Scott's orders take him to the Kenyan desert to secure the transfer of a Libyan functionary seeking asylum; Scott, Stonebridge and Richmond stave off a hostile onslaught in Mogadishu.
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A few more reviews:

- Review: Cinemax's 'Strike Back' strikes again
If well plotted, character driven action shows are your thing, give Strike Back a try. You might find getting past the gratuitous nature of the provocative scenes and the over the top violence has its own rewards: the Stonebridge/Scott relationship which is truly what drives the show.
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- TV review: Strike Back
The best aspect of “Strike Back” — besides some pulse-pounding machine gun battles and break-neck fisticuffs — is the chemistry between its two leads, Michael Stonebridge (Philip Winchester), a British sergeant of the anti-terrorist team, and Damien Scott (Sullivan Stapleton), a former U.S. Special Forces operative. The two came together to stop an attack, and by the end of the season their bond felt genuine.
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- 'Strike Back' review: Season 2 on Cinemax
I'd love to have a show like this to love -- wanton action, quippy banter, adult sexuality, high-tech tackling of our big-brother-always-watching world. But all those surveillance cams and satellite images beamed to handlers back at U.K. HQ mostly just fill in exposition around the convoluted activity. Its hasty pace frequently muddles precisely who's who where, when or why. Even the zippy sex scenes play like another gratuitous burst of firepower.
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- Strike Back blows shit up!
So where does Strike Back fall in the scale of post-9/11 anti-terror series? Let's say it splits the difference between the relentless clockwork of 24 and the grim homefront protectors of MI-5, except not as good as either. But Strike Back has its cartoonish pleasures — from those superb headshots nailed with handguns from moving vehicles, to the LOL cat-style subtitles. And there is always the abiding love between Stonebridge and Scott. "I complete you," Scott tells his buddy. He's joking, but not really.
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by far, my favorite show on tv. It's all of the good stuff in 24 thrown in with gratuteious skinmax sex. love it.
 
Titties and machine guns. Can't wait for tonight.
 
I just finished Season 1, the six part series with Rick Grimes and Porter.

Season 3 just started right? Or am I misreading something somewhere.

edit - nm just got my answer.
 
I just recently started watching this show, but isn't this actually season 3?

I loved the first season, but was surprised s2 had a different cast and still need to watch that season.
 
More reviews:

- “Strike Back”: Season Two packs even more punch than the first round of series
If you like your action shows to have solid plotting and superior acting, be sure and check out “Strike Back.”
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- Strike Back
Strike Back is ludicrous, both as an action thriller and as a spy drama, but it is entertaining. Undeniably so.
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- Weekend TV in Review
MAKE LOVE AND WAR: That could be the motto of Cinemax's explosively diverting action extravaganza Strike Back (Friday, 10/9c), which also benefits from a stronger through-line in its second season — or third, if you count an earlier incarnation that aired in the U.K. only — as the terrorist-battling heroes of the clandestine Section 20 go on a season-long international pursuit (24-style) of a bundle of deadly nuclear triggers that passes like a Frisbee from one evil cabal to another.
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- ‘Strike Back,’ four stars
Lots of location shots give “Strike Back” an unusually acute sense of realism, and the show wisely spends more time with the boys in the field than with the command unit back home. But that unit does good work, too, and the cast gets a new face with Rhona Mitra, who plays a tough field op straight from the currently popular TV school of women who love to mix it up. Fetch the popcorn, dude. It’s time for things to start blowing up.
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- 'Strike Back' shoots high with sure aim
"Strike Back" is the smartest action thriller on TV.
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spoilers obviously:

was awesome imo, good start to the season, set up a lot of stuff, Scott and the CIA and what he did in those 8 years between Iraq and now, killing off Stonebridges wife, Rhona being the new head of section 20, Tywin wanting nuclear triggers and that spec ops team working for him, the Allah guy etc

and I swear they lifted one scene out of black hawk down ^^
 
Hey, the sniper at the end was the doc from Band of Brothers. Took me a while to place him.
Enosh said:
spoilers obviously:

was awesome imo, good start to the season, set up a lot of stuff, Scott and the CIA and what he did in those 8 years between Iraq and now, killing off Stonebridges wife, Rhona being the new head of section 20, Tywin wanting nuclear triggers and that spec ops team working for him, the Allah guy etc
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Yeah, it was a good start. It felt a little disjointed with plotlines all over the place, but they converged nicely at the end to get the season rolling.
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Thanks for the link, as always, sir—much appreciated.
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No problem.
 
First half dragged a little but in the second they just set up lots of compelling stuff.

And again, the production values going into this are insane. Probably most expensive looking show on TV right now next to Game of Thrones.

I hope they renew it again, too bad almost nobody on GAF is watching it :(
 
Watched S01 a few days ago, then watched all of S02 yesterday. Enjoyed it quite a bit! Shame about the whole John Porter bit, was expecting a bit more.

Curious to see what's going on with the Doc from BoB, Tywin and the Myrmidon from Troy.
 
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And again, the production values going into this are insane. Probably most expensive looking show on TV right now next to Game of Thrones.

I hope they renew it again, too bad almost nobody on GAF is watching it :(
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Since I spent a half-hour on the phone with the show's publicist the other day, and since I don't have time to do anything else with the information, two notes:

1) Cinemax is really emphasizing that this is not an expensive show. That doesn't mean it's not expensive-looking, but it's definitely not on a premium cable-sized budget based on everything I've been told.

2) Given that Cinemax is looking to expand its original series lineup, and given that Strike Back has become something of a lynchpin for them, and given it's an international co-production, I'd expect it to stick around—publicist referenced "next year" numerous times, suggesting it's definitely looking that way.
 
Memles said:
Since I spent a half-hour on the phone with the show's publicist the other day, and since I don't have time to do anything else with the information, two notes:

1) Cinemax is really emphasizing that this is not an expensive show. That doesn't mean it's not expensive-looking, but it's definitely not on a premium cable-sized budget based on everything I've been told.

2) Given that Cinemax is looking to expand its original series lineup, and given that Strike Back has become something of a lynchpin for them, and given it's an international co-production, I'd expect it to stick around—publicist referenced "next year" numerous times, suggesting it's definitely looking that way.
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Interesting...because if the second season was "not expensive"...then I don't know how the hell they pull it off. In the second season they had a large set piece every other episode, stuff constantly being blown up (and not with CG - as the post above mentions, there was some more CGI looking stuff in this premiere...hope they don't bring it up again), the different locations (I mean, I guess they shoot everything Africa-based in South Africa, but there were the episodes in Europe too), and the action choreography is easily on par with - if not better than - most stuff Hollywood craps out these days.
 
Stonebridge's wife didn't deserve that. I don't understand why he would want to hurt an innocent woman for the purpose of getting revenge on the guy who killed your brother because he went postal. I just didn't like how that was written. It's a shame nobody watches this show.
 
I thought it was a pretty good premiere. I liked the stuff pertaining to the two episode arc, but I also thought they did a good job at setting up the overarching plot for the season.

Thoughts:

Some of the explosions looked a little bad, almost like they were cg, but for the most part I thought the special effects were quite good.

I forgot how incoherent the story can be at times, but it wasn't too bad this week.

Rhona Mitra seems like a good addition to the cast; appropriately badass and I liked the banter between she and Scott.

I can't believe Stonebridges' wife was killed! That was fucking crazy. Stonebridge had no choice but to shoot the postal trainee guy. The brother/sniper killing Stonebridges' wife was a crazy way to react. Seems like crazy runs in their family.

Cornballer said:
Hey, the sniper at the end was the doc from Band of Brothers. Took me a while to place him.
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Ahhh. I was trying to remember who he was. He favors the guy who plays Moriarty on Sherlock.
 
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