Thankfully, the show’s more jingoistic elements are fairly fleeting, even if the missions are more about how SEAL Team’s main characters are affected, as opposed to offering development for the people they’re tracking or saving.
Don’t get me wrong, SEAL Team has quite a bit of work to do to get over the hump of being a fairly predictable broadcast network drama.
It does fit right at home with CBS’ bread and butter, though, and I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if it’s successful enough to inspire a spinoff down the road.
The plotting is formulaic, and doesn’t break a lot of new ground in these earliest days, and considering certain segments of the daily news cycle are constantly tethered to terrorism stories, there’s something a bit tiring about it all, especially when so many other military TV series have used the same kinds of enemy threats.