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Once again, all sorts of pyrotechnics erupt throughout this set of episodes, and from the look of some of theĭeclassified featurettes, at least some of it was done practically, rather than courtesy of CGI.Īs with previous seasons of the show, little stabs at character development are attempted. Its frequent fighting aspect, Strike Back is also noted for its - well, just take a look at the second screenshot accompanying this review,Īnd you'll get the general idea. There are some really inventively staged fight scenes that includeĮverything from a bout in a bowling alley to that great standby in any number of sleazy movies, a skirmish in a women's prison yard. Required moments in each and every episode that offer hand to hand combat. Triads) into one of its calling cards: the virtually Setting in Malaysia offers a really exciting opportunity to introduce some more overt martial arts aspects (courtesy of a subplot involving so-called While the underlying 'McGuffin' of this year's adventures, the search for some stolen weaponry, is kind of 'been there, done that,' the show's A final 'team member' (kinda sorta, anyway) is a RussianĬaptain named Katrina Zarkova (Yasemin Allen), who kind of attaches herself to Section 20 after her own Russian team is wiped out in a massacre The series' tendency to treat itsĬomputer experts as veritable 'red shirts' is joked about in another Declassified featurette, but this season adds the rather appealingĬharacter of Lance Corporal Manisha Chetri (Varada Sethu), who manages to get out of headquarters and into the field, something that allows theĬharacter to play into events a bit more viscerally than some of her predecessors. There isĪ new Commander, in this case a martinet, no nonsense type named Colonel Alexander Coltrane (Jamie Bamber). States, the other from the United Kingdom), Samuel Wyatt (Daniel MacPherson) and Thomas 'Mac' McAllister (Warren Brown). Iterations of the show), and there is indeed a main trifecta again consisting of Sumarata's Novin, and the two Sergeants (one from the United Sumarata's involvement at least hints that this season/series will have some returning characters (unlike at least a couple of previous That much of an 'improvement' in terms of the environments the characters have to survive in. Opines in one of the Declassified featurettes, this at least gets the Strike Back force out of the desert, though the jungle setting may not

With this set of episodes exploiting a number of gorgeous (if treacherous) places like Malaysia, and Kuala Lumpur in particular. The so-called Declassified featurettes included as supplements on this release, when she states, 'Things of beauty and value are hereīe destroyed.' Luckily, those beautiful things don't include all of the rather sumptuous locations the show has visited through the years, Our reviews of the previous whatever you want to call them of Strike Back can be accessed by clicking on the following links:Īlin Sumarata, who portrays Lance Corporal Gracie Novin, kind of handily sums up the general zeitgeist of Strike Back in one of Simple, was apparently marketed as Strike Back: Revolution in the United States, though the discs in this set carry no such sobriquet. Or seventh season (depending on who's counting) was branded as Strike Back: Silent War in the UK, but because things can never be Was also known as Project Dawn, and all subsequent years (see what I did there?) also having descriptive subtitles.

STRIKE BACK SEASON 6 RELEASE DATE SERIES

Seasons, of course) all had subtitles to differentiate them, so that the second series (which became the first season on this side of the Compounding the confusion with this particular show is the

Season (and/or series), a series (and/or season) which made it to the United States as Strike Back: Season One (is everything becoming as clear as mud now?). United States) and therefore can't authoritatively discuss what was included on the domestic Blu-ray releases of the previous three seasons, itĭue to the fact that there was an initial series that aired in the United Kingdom before Cinemax got involved with the show starting with its second While I 'inherited' Strike Back as a review item starting with its fourth season (i.e., of Blu-ray releases in the It's been branded on this release), since may online data keepers actually refer to this set of episodes as the seventh 'series' (in British In that regard, some may wonder about Strike Back: Cinemax Season Six What we dunderheaded Americans typically call a 'season'. It can get downright confusing when discussing British television series due to that very word - series, which in British parlance can refer Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, May 27, 2020

Strike back season 6 release date