[TV] Chris Ryan's "Strike Back"

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Never heard of the books but the series is pretty damn good if a bit formulaic at times. I watched 1 episode yesterday then 1/2 through started downloading both seasons. It has 7.0 IMDB rating.

From Wikipedia:

Chris Ryan's Strike Back is a six-part British television series based on the novel of the same name written by best-selling author and former soldier of the Special Air Service, Chris Ryan. It was produced by Left Bank Pictures for Sky1. The cast of Strike Back is led by Richard Armitage and Andrew Lincoln, also starring Orla Brady, Shelley Conn, Colin Salmon and Jodhi May, including a variety of guest appearances including Toby Stephens, Ewen Bremner, Dhaffer L'Abidine, Shaun Parkes and Alexander Siddig. The series follows John Porter (Armitage), a former British Special Forces soldier, who is drafted back into service by Section 20 of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6).

The series ran on a multi-million pound budget, and was filmed on location in South Africa, particularly in the Gauteng. Ryan became a series consultant. Strike Back commenced airing on 5 May 2010 with two episodes showing a week. The first episode received unofficial overnight ratings of almost 400,000 viewers in the United Kingdom, which increased to just over one million according to the more official Broadcasters' Audience Research Board. It was met with generally positive reviews; comments of the series ranged from a positive "British action series that packs a Die Hard-style thrill around every corner," to a more negative "pathetic male fantasy". It was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on 7 June 2010. A 10-part second series, known as Strike Back: Project Dawn, a co-production between Sky and the American network Cinemax, was first broadcast in August 2011. A third series of Strike Back, also to consist of 10 parts, will be released in 2012.[1]
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Tried watching it. Didn't do it for me. It was almost like watching an Andy Sidaris film with a bigger budget and not as much unintentional comedy.
 
chris ryan is a legend for achieving the longest successful E&E in history, but he's an annoying fucking prick with the writing ability of, say, tehvul

he's basically like tom clancy in the sense that its more about the insider language and terminology (he was SAS) over plot

he's done a few 'documentaries' where he goes and spends a bit of time training/operating with various paramilitary police-forces (think SWAT) around the world

literally every time he meets them, within 30 seconds he asks in a very loud over-annunciated accent (the classic TALKING TO FOREIGNERS thing that we all do without thinking) 'HAVE YOU HEARD OF THE SAS???'
 
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worth watching. s1 has nothing to do with s2. s2 is the us version, s1 being from the uk. the 2 special ops dudes work well together.
 
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