SEAL Team Season 7 Episode 4 Review: Heroes and Criminals

Critic’s Score: 3 / 5.0

If, after SEAL Workforce Season 7 Episode 4, you, like me, are nonetheless attempting to wrap your head round what’s completely different this season, I’ll have stumbled upon a solution.

If you look again and have a look at what hasn’t been for the primary 4 episodes, you may see a path of clues as to what is likely to be.

To danger sounding like Kamala Harris being unburdened by what has been, Bravo workforce is adrift, and with it, its last season.

A Story of Two SEALs

It’s additionally potential that I’m on the lookout for extra with so few episodes remaining. Hoping for closure for any collection is at all times a need, however once you’re speaking a few army present, what does that even appear to be?

Fortunately, Ray’s retirement is looming, which supplies us a good suggestion of what an individual in a wholesome, loving relationship could discover after 20 years of service.

On the flip facet, although, we’ve got Jason, who exhibits the harm that may be achieved by serving your nation.

Ray has a supporting spouse and a brand new enterprise enterprise that ties him on to the work he’s achieved for many years. It offers him objective. He sees mild on the finish of the tunnel.

Jason has no such endeavor lined up. Though he may in all probability retire or is a minimum of near it, he hasn’t proven any need to let go. He’s tied up in what was and sees what number of lives it claimed.

What’s Going On with Jason?

What’s horrifying about Jason is that he retains all the things buried deep inside. He’s bottled himself as much as the purpose that persons are guessing his strikes based mostly on previous conduct, and so they’re getting it unsuitable.

His relationship with Mandy is a saving grace. Another person is probably not as forgiving of his faults. However he’s hiding issues from her, too. You’d suppose that with as a lot as she has seen and suffered herself, he’d share extra freely of himself. Not a lot, from what we’ve got seen.

On the one hand, the army that gave them life for many years is on the best way out. It’s below new administration to take care of new enemies. The mission focus stays, however the reasoning behind the missions has modified.

They’re being requested to study from the bottom up however produce the identical outcomes. It’s not straightforward for these making the choices, and it’s even more durable for these taking orders.

Bravo escaped SEAL Workforce Season 6 with their jobs intact, however their satisfaction was wounded as they had been grounded and given menial shore duties. Being sidelined so quickly after shedding Clay wounded the workforce.

So, what does this imply for Bravo and particularly for Jason?

New Warfare, New BRAVO

After having their ft held to the hearth for therefore lengthy, discovering their method again is hard. For probably the most half, they’re making the perfect of it. Sonny took Clay’s loss of life arduous, however he’s turned that into one thing optimistic.

Who would have guessed that Sonny would make such an effort to make Drew part of the workforce? But when Sonny is bringing Drew into the fold, Jason is making excuses for him.

Issues change. New conflict, new BRAVO.

Jason Hayes

Jason is in the course of one thing important, and flippant remarks just like the one above don’t assist.

SEAL Workforce had to herald a alternative for Clay, however I get the sensation that Drew represents one thing bigger within the scheme of issues, as if he’ll be instrumental in no matter it’s that Jason wants to find about himself to maneuver on.

That popped into my head when Drew astutely noticed that Jason was spooked, and Sonny realized that Drew may need been the one to see it as a result of he’s gone by means of one thing related.

So, they’re tied collectively not directly. Hopefully, it received’t take the entire season to find what it’s.

Simply Who Is Jason Defending?

Jason kanked (by no means heard of that phrase earlier than, however I appreciated it… whether or not it’s spelled proper is one other story) the Myanmar op simply earlier than go time as a result of it didn’t really feel proper to him. Particularly, the potential lack of life was unacceptable.

That’s a valiant effort, however not if it places your workforce in danger. Bravo scrambled to give you one thing that made Jason snug with the op, however it began falling aside virtually instantly. That it didn’t tank isn’t a testomony to his management however to the capabilities of his workforce, together with Drew.

In the end, Jason’s concern for civilians may have been disastrous for his workforce, and it was below the guise of defending the workforce that he referred to as for change within the first place.

That didn’t escape Ray, and he referred to as Jason out on it, however till Jason is keen to speak with somebody about what’s happening in his head (it’s NOT TBI associated), this can proceed.

I don’t know who you’re defending on the market, however it wasn’t Bravo.

Ray Perry

Our joyful ending for SEAL Workforce requires Jason to search out peace together with his existence, together with all the losses he’s skilled over time and the components he’s performed in them.

It additionally calls for that Ray retires, switching his focus to serving to different souls like Jason’s — misplaced after years of loss of life and destruction in his wake.

I additionally surprise if Jason’s newfound want to guard civilians can also be as a consequence of Clay’s loss of life. Clay died as a civilian, in any case, by the hands of one other veteran. You simply by no means know what’s going to flip the swap.

Fortunately, It Wasn’t All Darkish and Pondery aka Random Ideas

I can’t lie; a part of the explanation I can’t stand LCDR Kirkpatrick is from different roles Derek Phillips has performed, notably Billy Riggins on Friday Evening Lights. However he received me over when Lisa received him over.

I used to be sort of misplaced on the “goal bundle” and the way and why Bravo is enjoying with the DEA within the first place. A lot jargon, so little time.

With all of this deal with Drew this season, it will likely be legal in the event that they don’t herald Kirk Acevedo to play a relative. It’s like Beau Knapp went to Kirk Acevedo College to play this function.

Sonny’s random conspiracy theories, together with the flesh-eating coconut crabs that ate Amelia Ehart and that Stevie Marvel can see, along with his hazing makes an attempt, had been brilliant spots in an in any other case dreary episode.

It was a bummer to listen to that Hannah is engaged and her fiance is shut with Leanne. I used to be sort of hoping that they could discover their method again to one another. Sonny and Lisa? By no means going to occur.

That is the primary time I’ve observed throughout an op that nothing seems to be overseas — not the road indicators, the roads, and even the sunshine switches within the manufacturing facility. And would Myanmar employees actually stroll off the job if the payroll truck didn’t present up?

How did they discover a dive bar in Myanmar? Bravo at all times finds a dive bar that appears suspiciously like all the opposite dive bars they frequent.