There’s no need for calling Strike Back subtle or layered. It is what it is. A non-stop action show that throws in sex scenes every chance it gets.

Whereas it seemed that Michael Stonebridge (Philip Winchester) was written out of Section 20 at the end of the first season as he retired from active duty to be with his wife and child, he’s thrown back in the game after his wife is murdered by Curtis Hanson (Shane Taylor), a renegade soldier whose brother was killed by Stonebridge after he went nuts during a training exercise.

Dear Mr. De Niro,

Do you remember a time when no matter what movie you were in, people already thought it would be great just because you were in it? The days when you teamed up with Martin Scorcese and made classics together? That was of course before you starred in movies that came with jokes about someone’s foreskin or characters named Gaylord Focker. I know, I know… you can’t keep on acting until the day you die and you need to put some money aside for a rainy day now that you still can. But still.