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At several points during the first few episodes of the final season of Cinemax’s Strike Back, the various criminal…
Reviews - Strike Back
Strike Back is built for climax.
“We’re all just pieces on a board. That’s all.”
This season, Strike Back has been doubling down on one of its stylistic flourishes. Every time “Short Change Hero”…
Strike Back is the kind of show that doesn’t need to be eventful to be entertaining. The writers could easily tell a…
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Strike Back has always shared a strong connection with video games in its storytelling. A typical episode of the…
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Problem solving is a typical task for television writers. With every new page a new problem arises, and the task for…
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This season of Strike Back has been building to a final showdown between Michael Stonebridge and Craig Hanson, and…
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It often feels weird to write about Strike Back, as it means stopping to evaluate a show that really doesn’t…
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Early in the first season of Strike Back, Section 20 lost one of its own when Kate Marshall was killed during a…
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Early in “Episode 6,” Rachel Dalton summarizes the state of the case against Conrad Knox, concluding “we need to…
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Series like Strike Back require an understanding between the writers and the audience that the narrative world of…
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Someone suggested on Twitter last week that perhaps it makes more sense to review Strike Back every two weeks, given…
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I said last week that covering Strike Back week-to-week is going to be slightly different than with other shows, and…
There’s a moment in the second half of Strike Back’s second-season première where Damien Scott ribs Michael…