‘SEAL Team’: 8 Hot Questions for Season 7
The future of Bravo’s SEAL Team is still unclear, but at least we’ll get to see what’s 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, spoke out publicly 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 be Bravo 1? Will the team look the same as it did in seasons past? 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, 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 publicly he spoke out about his TBI at the medal 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 maybe he’s not going to be in action again.” Given that we suspect that will happen while SEAL Team is still on the air—things didn’t look good when Jason was out of action—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 out in the open.
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 as immediate as he thought? “This is not an easy job to give up,” Hudnut says. “The brotherhood is not an easy thing to give up.” “Going public the way he did… Ray definitely puts his retirement in jeopardy. He may not have a chance to retire because of what he did here.”
Will Sonny face consequences for punching Colonel Decker?
Davis (Toni Trucks) finally gets the answers Sonny (AJ Buckley) has been pushing for all season regarding their mission in Mali, and it turns out that the mistake – which led to the ambush and Clay’s (Max Thieriot) leg loss – was a colonel who didn’t change channels of communication as often as protocol dictates. What’s more, he was nominated for promotion. Sonny then tracked him down and punched him. But his mistake in doing so, off base, was using his rank. If they found out it was Sonny, it would be career-ending. “That’s going to be a threat to Sonny going forward, and how he has to deal with those consequences or maybe avoid those consequences is going to be a big part of what he’s going to do next season,” the showrunner teased.
