CLASSIC TV: Strike Back on Cinemax
Boom. We're hooked on Cinemax's original series Strike Back. Image from http://www.cinemax.com/strike-back/.
We are officially hooked on Strike Back, the original anti-terrorist badass series on Cinemax.
From the official Strike Back website:
A high-octane, globe-spanning thriller with storylines ripped from today’s headlines, Strike Back, Cinemax’s first scripted prime-time original drama series, focuses on two members of a top-secret intelligence agency known as Section 20: Michael Stonebridge, a British sergeant on the elite counter-terrorism team, and Damien Scott, a former U.S. Delta Force operative who was discharged on the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Stonebridge, Scott and the rest of Section 20 criss-cross the globe on the trail of a deadly international terrorist named Latif, who is planning a major attack involving a cache of WMD that could have global repercussions.
If you’ve been looking for a show that mixes in guns, explosions, dudes killing terrorists, beautiful women who get naked more often than necessary and two badasses that are almost to par with Mr. Chuck Norris himself, Strike Back is definitely the show for you.
Strike Back's two resident badasses, Michael Stonebridge and Damien Scott. Image from http://www.cinemax.com/strike-back/.
The two most recent episodes we watched are the ones that got us hooked:
- 5 EU officials in Kosovo get kidnapped by the biggest heroine trafficker in the area and requests the freedom of his cousin (who also happens to be a terrorist) in exchange for the hostages
- The two main characters are asked to deliver the cousin terrorist and en-route to the airport, the transport vehicle is blown up by other terrorists who kill themselves with cyanide pills because they were chased down by the main characters (luckily, they put the cousin terrorist in the trunk of the car).
- Once there, the two main characters decide to not do the exchange because they felt they were going to get killed if they followed the plan. They decide to kill all the terrorists at the exchange. The odds are 15 terrorists with automatic weapons to the 2 main dudes. They kill them all anyway.
- They run out of gas.
- They have to find another vehicle to transport their rescued hostages. To do that, they have to invade a heavily fortified heroine processing plant. They kill everyone, but the vehicle they intended to commandeer explodes in flames.
- A team from the American military finds them and brings them back to their base. Unfortunately, the American team’s leader is corrupt and in the back pocket of the aforementioned heroine dealer and the main characters are betrayed.
- Women are sent to be drugged up on heroine and sold as sex slaves.
- Lead characters are sent to another location to be killed, but escape from their transport vehicle because another American hid a firearm in the head of a decapitated victim and throws it into the transport with them.
- They go back and rescue hostages by killing everyone in the prison.
- As they are escaping and en route to save the women about to become sex slaves, a military team catches up with them in a standoff. One lead character escapes because the other lead character stays and covers them.
- Lead character that stays is presumed dead.
- Other lead character and freed hostages try to find and save women about to become sex slaves.
- They find themselves in a mine field and one hostage gets blown up by a mine because he goes temporarily insane from all the stress.
- They find where the women are found, remaining lead character goes into another heavily fortified enemy area and single-handedly kills the rest of the terrorists who are hand-picking their sex-slaves.
- Lead character finds other presumed dead lead character who was actually alive, badly wounded and brought back to a room where they are dissecting war victims and harvesting their organs.
- Presumed dead lead character frees himself and is picked up by other lead character with all hostages in tow.
Just writing about the two-episode plot is ridiculous. You have to watch this show.
For more information about Strike Back, the ESM-approved original series on Cinemax, you can check out their official site at http://www.cinemax.com/strike-back/.
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