Lioness returned for its third season on Paramount+ on Sunday, nearly two years after its second season aired, continuing what has become a busy summer of new and returning titles from creator Taylor Sheridan.
Sheridan wrote all eight episodes of the new season, which will roll out weekly through 20 September.
Zoe Saldaña returns as CIA operative Joe, alongside Nicole Kidman and Michael Kelly, in a season Paramount is billing as the team’s “most dangerous mission yet.”
According to the official synopsis, “hidden networks, foreign operatives, and personal betrayals collide” as Joe “walks the line between duty and home as unseen forces circle her world,” with “patterns” appearing “where they shouldn’t” and “names” vanishing as she’s guided by Kidman’s Kaitlyn and Kelly’s Westfield through a war that “reaches into” her own life.
Oscar winner Morgan Freeman also returns for the new season.
Lioness is a Paramount+ exclusive and won’t air on traditional television. The premiere landed at 3am ET on Sunday, with new episodes dropping weekly at the same time.
The series, created by Sheridan and loosely inspired by a real Marine Corps programme that used female soldiers to build relationships with local women and gather intelligence during the Iraq War, has become one of the streamer’s most reliable performers, regularly ranking among its most-watched original titles.
Paramount+ offers two subscription tiers that include the series: an ad-supported plan at $8.99 a month and an ad-free plan at $13.99 a month, with a seven-day free trial of the ad-free tier available to those who subscribe through Amazon’s Prime Video add-on channels.
New viewers unfamiliar with the show can catch up on the first two seasons, both fully available to stream on Paramount+, ahead of diving into the new episodes.
