‘Lioness’ Season 3 Episode 1 Recap: The Drone Temple

There are two things happening at the outset of Lioness Season 3 on Paramount+. One we could totally predict, and one we kinda never saw coming. Unlike recent joints in the Sheridan-O-Verse, prolific TV creator Taylor Sheridan handles all the writing himself in Lioness. And as CIA case officer Joe McNamara (Zoe Saldaña) hits the weights and trains hard in cardio, Sheridan fills the airspace around his main character with the bad news of overlapping cable news chatter. This we could predict. The world remains on fire in Lioness, which over time has expanded from its original mandate, the training and deployment of women sleeper agents, into a kind of global techno-thriller. But Joe isn’t working out at some government facility. She’s in her garage, at home in Fairfax, VA, and after showerin