Strike Back: Season 2
  • Network: Cinemax
  • Series Premiere Date: Aug 12, 2011
  • Season #: 1 , 2
Metascore
75 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
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  1. Hitfix
    Reviewed by: Alan Sepinwall
    Aug 16, 2012
    83
    If it were just a collection of well-choreographed explosions and gunfire, it would still be an entertaining watch. But there's a genuine effort made to show the impact of all this mayhem on both the men perpetuating it and the people who are witnesses and/or victims to it.
  2. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    Aug 17, 2012
    80
    Lots of location shots give Strike Back an unusually acute sense of realism, and the show wisely spends more time with the boys in the field than with the command unit back home.
  3. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Diane Werts
    Aug 16, 2012
    58
    Its hasty pace frequently muddles precisely who's who where, when or why. Even the zippy sex scenes play like another gratuitous burst of firepower.
  4. RedEye
    Reviewed by: Curt Wagner
    Aug 17, 2012
    100
    Where it truly excels is in showing the emotional costs paid by the super soldiers doing their jobs and by the witnesses and/or victims of all the mayhem.
  5. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    Aug 17, 2012
    70
    It's the absurdly over-the-top machismo of countless firefights and explosions and high-body-count carnage that makes Strike Back such a cheese-tastic guilty pleasure.
  6. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: Nancy DeWolf Smith
    Aug 24, 2012
    70
    Fun even when it's ludicrous, forgivable when the clichés fly.

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User Score
7.7 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 11 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. RPD
    10
    Excellent start to the season. The addition of Rhona Mitra is already paying off. I honestly don't get where some reviewers are calling this show a "guilty pleasure". Just because it's an action series doesn't make it any less credible, I guess you'd say, than something like Breaking Bad or Mad Men. If those shows could get away with what Cinemax can I bet they would be...… Full Review »
  2. TVMovieFan
    9
    I Love Strike Back and will always, The 1st season was kick ass and so is the highly anticipated 2nd season, I am already for the 3rd season, I wish there were more tv series like this one. Keep on truckin Strike Back.… Full Review »
  3. Eakster
    8
    It's like Call of Duty: Black Ops meets your favorite buddy cop show. Surprisingly well put together and high budget action drama with an extended mag of guns, explosions, adult language and a sidearm of sauce. The international flavor is particularly enjoyable with its mix of quality American and Brit actors (spot the Medic from Band of Brothers) and South African production base which allows for some believable and visually rich location shoots. The intense gun play and set pieces seem tactically correct and believable enough for us special sofa forces. There's a decent back story and the friendship between the two male leads keeps it interesting. It's fun watching them collect more scratches and bruises each episode.… Full Review »
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