Strike Back Season 5

Right now you can watch Strike Back Season 5 on and — and it moves faster than most of the genre's competition. Across 1 season, the show has had time to find its rhythm and keep it. With 400 viewer ratings on TMDB, this is not a title flying under the radar. Sullivan Stapleton's performance is the throughline that holds the set pieces together. There is no real reason to keep putting it off.

Strike Back Season 5 is not trying to be everything to everyone, and that focus is exactly what makes it work. Strike Back Season 5 understands that stakes only matter if you care who is at risk. From the tropical beaches of Thailand to the towering peaks of the Swiss Alps, Strike Back: Legacy thrusts Section 20 onto a mission the scale of which has never been seen before as this season Scott & Stonebridge go up against the state sanctioned criminal wing of the North Korean regime, known as Office 39. Coordinated by a beautiful and devoted North Korean agent deeply embedded in the British Establishment, Han Li-na is secretly assembling intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of wiping out Washington and London. Putting a stop to the threat posed by North Korea becomes Section 20’s undoing when, in a bid to ease escalating global tensions, Sir Charles Ridley a senior figure within Whitehall, brokers a deal with North Korea to eliminate Section 20. Sullivan Stapleton and Philip Winchester lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 2015. The geography of every set piece in Strike Back Season 5 is legible, which is rarer in the genre than it should be. It delivers reliably on what it promises, which is more than most of its competition manages.

The genre has a long history of front-loading its best moments — Strike Back Season 5 is not one of those. It has built its own audience without needing a direct comparison. Short enough to finish in a weekend, substantial enough to feel satisfying. Sullivan Stapleton brings a physicality to the role that elevates every set piece. Action that earns its sequences rather than just delivering them.