SEAL Team Season 7 Episode 5 Review: A Perfect Storm
Welcome to SEAL Team as we get a rewrite with a little bit of unknown history.
“A Perfect Storm” brings all the simmering conflict between the members of Bravo Team to an explosive conclusion. I think, and I hope, because I don’t think I can take much more.
In my opinion, it just doesn’t work. In fact, I was so stunned by the end of this episode that I’m having a bit of writer’s block. Where do you even begin when things go like this? Well, the best part of the episode is the photos, so enjoy those.
A Storm Is Brewing There have been issues brewing at Bravo for a while, but I didn’t expect everyone to turn on each other like they did on SEAL Team Season 7 Episode 5. The creative team behind the show put everyone in an impossible position to get results, but it doesn’t seem like it was worth it.
Being stuck in a small, heated space will bring out the worst in you, but this is Bravo Team. They’ve traditionally supported each other through everything, even when they disagree.
On SEAL Team Season 7 Episode 4, the team played along while trying to confuse Drew. As reader Diddy pointed out in the comments, they acted like children.
I guess you could say they’re still acting like children, finding fault where there isn’t any and twisting words and actions to make their point.
There’s no time for childish behavior when lives are at stake, and everything Bravo does falls into that category, whether it’s their own lives or the lives of those they’re sent to protect.
But what choice do they have?
The saying “work hard, play hard” is true, especially when your job is so stressful. The only way to stay sane is to lose your cool a little bit every now and then.
Bravo spends a lot of time drinking, but when they’re on tour, it’s their only outlet.
They don’t have gym memberships or family days. All they have is each other and a bottle of wine to relieve stress.
It’s not a great coping mechanism under any circumstances, and I can’t help but wonder how much of their troubles come from alcohol and the hangovers that follow.
Sweating from alcohol is one thing, and it’s not something I want to do on a regular basis.
No one is feeling their best, and things are complicated, leading to the perfect storm.
Letting off steam is a double-edged sword that can dig a hole deeper than the one you’re trying to get out of.
Jason’s son has had a hockey accident, so once again his mind is at home instead of on duty.
Ray stands up for Jason, who is attacking Omar, and defends Drew. Sonny is angry at the world, especially Jason, for bringing out his trident. It’s a mess and hard to watch.
The only one with his eye on the ball is Drew, who is also at the center of the controversy.
There’s no way every SEAL doesn’t know about Drew and his situation. He was supposedly at Echo for a year before the disaster.
Sonny says he didn’t know they had a man at the time. How could he not know?
Echo is handling the mission on Bravo. The possibility that the teams don’t know each other is impossible.
Look, I understand the need to make Drew’s story dramatic, but this is too much. We were there when Echo went missing. We had the information. Now we find out there’s another guy, and Bravo doesn’t know anything about it.
Losing your entire team like that is devastating. They’ll reach out and sympathize. No matter how well they knew him before, they’ll still be there to help after another executive loses a teammate.
So that’s the big secret, and why Drew doesn’t want to get close to anyone.
Of course, that’s also why he’ll be a huge asset to Bravo later on. This will be his breakthrough moment, when he becomes part of the team dynamic.
Again, it doesn’t seem like it was worth it.
It’s worth thinking about when it comes to Drew. It spurred the team into action and they saved a family, which was not the mission at all. But I can’t even tell what mission was going on at this point because they were constantly going against orders.
And the war on terror was easy to follow. This international scam to kill each other with Fentynal is beyond my understanding. I guess that’s the new war. Well, I don’t like that.
By the end of it all, Jason was a wreck. Again. He saw blood on his hands.
They emphasized that in SEAL Team Season 7 to the point where it didn’t need to be interpreted literally.
But again, this season wasn’t easy to follow. Reading interviews with David Boreanaz shows that the story they thought they were telling wasn’t revealed on screen. There was a disconnect somewhere that hadn’t been there in previous seasons.
