‘SEAL Team’: 8 Hot Questions for Season 7
The future of Bravo on SEAL Team is still unclear, but at least we’ll get to see what happens next now that the Paramount+ drama has been renewed for a seventh season.
And that comes after season six ended on a pretty cliffhanger. Bravo 1, Jason Hayes (David Boreanaz), while receiving a Navy Seal for his selfless actions in saving his team in Mali, went public about his TBI. And just as he was about to face the consequences of his decision, Ray (Neil Brown Jr.) joined the meeting to tell his superiors about his PTS… and then the rest of Bravo and the other SEALs stepped in to reveal what they’d been hiding and should have gotten rid of them, too.
“Ultimately, if we can create more SEAL Teams, that’s great. “I really felt like the fans who came with us to Paramount+ deserved the opportunity to see these characters through their journey,” showrunner Spencer Hudnut told TV Insider after the Season 6 finale, before the renewal. “This was not the intended end of the show. If at the end of the day, the brotherhood, the guys standing up for Jason and showing the love and bond that they share, is the last thing we do, I’m okay with that, but there’s still a lot of other stories to tell and we hope that we do that.”
But what happens next for Bravo after the cliffhanger isn’t the only question we have for season seven. Scroll down for more.
What will Bravo look like operationally?
Hudnut points out that while the final scene of Season 6 “shakes things up a little bit,” “at the end of the day, these guys operating, these guys out in the field are usually the driving force of the show.” That means the start of season seven will have to address how Bravo can continue to operate as it has in the past. Can Jason become Bravo 1? Will the team look the same as it did in previous seasons? Or will they need someone else to come along, given what everyone just confessed? And even if they do start work as usual, how might a rotation or deployment be different for them in terms of how they handle things—as a band of brothers, as individuals, and during and after missions?
Will Jason or anyone else face any significant consequences?
It’s likely that if anyone does, it will be Jason, given how he spoke out publicly about his TBI at the awards ceremony. (Command could easily keep what others say private, only the people in that room would know.) Regardless, though, Hudnut notes that Jason “knows the consequences of this situation, and I think for the first time, he’s really comfortable with the idea that he’s probably not going to be in action again.” Given that we suspect that will happen while SEAL Team is still on the air—things weren’t looking good when Jason was inactive—it could be interesting to see how he deals with those two parts of himself: the part that’s okay with being out of action and the part that still needs to come, with the truth about his TBI being made public.
Will Ray’s retirement plans change?
Ray has revealed his retirement plans, and he and his wife Naima (Parisa Fakhri) have opened a veterinary clinic to help fellow soldiers. But since he’s talked about his PTS, how might those plans change? And will he decide that retirement isn’t something he’ll do as soon as he thought? “It’s not an easy job to give up. It’s not an easy brotherhood to give up,” Hudnut says. “Going public the way he did… Ray definitely puts his retirement in jeopardy. He may not have the chance to retire because of what he did here.”
