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Taylor Sheridan gives us an effective military action thriller, though Nicole Kidman, as a CIA boss, is more distracting than ever

Taylor Sheridans new action series Special Ops: Lioness, starring Zoe Saldana, Nicole Kidman and Morgan Freeman, is inspired by a real-life military operation.

During the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Marine Corps and Army employed Lioness teams to deter insurgents from using women in their attacks. In a new show from "Yellowstone" co-creator Taylor Sheridan, it looks like the Lionesses are going to do more than engage a female population.

At the time of the invasion, American military women were still banned from ground combat, but they quickly found themselves under enemy fire