as Edwin Mullins: The U.S. Secretary of State. Michael Kelly as Byron Westfield: A CIA Deputy Director. Parental Guide Highlights The series is rated for mature audiences due to: Parents guide - Lioness (TV Series 2023 - IMDb

The team recruits Josephina "Josie" Carrillo (Genesis Rodriguez), a U.S. Army helicopter pilot with family ties to the Los Tigres cartel.

In Season 2, the Lioness team, led by Joe "Oz" O'Brien (Zoe Saldana), faces new challenges and adversaries that test their strength, strategy, and camaraderie. The season promises to deliver more intense action sequences, emotional character arcs, and unexpected twists and turns.

The emotional core remains Saldaña’s Joe, a woman who is now visibly fraying. Season 2 dares to ask: What happens when the operative who uses other women as weapons begins to see herself as expendable? Her home life with her husband (a brilliant, understated return by Michael Kelly) has deteriorated from strained to radioactive. Joe’s vulnerability isn’t a weakness here—it’s the fuse.

Special Ops: Lioness returned for its second season on , on Paramount+ , with an eight-episode run that concluded on December 8, 2024 . Following the record-breaking success of its debut, the series—now officially titled Lioness —pivoted from the Middle East to a high-stakes mission focused on the Mexican-American border. The Plot: Domestic Threats and New Targets

: The season kicks off with Joe (Zoe Saldaña), Kyle (Thad Luckinbill), and the QRF team executing a high-stakes extraction after a high-ranking government official is kidnapped by a cartel.