Wednesday, 18 October 2017

VALOR - Series Review

Premiere Date - October 9, 2017

This military drama tells the story of Nora Madani (Christina Ochoa) and her Commanding officer, Captain Leland Gallo (Matt Barr 'Sleepy Hollow') two Shadow Raiders- an elite unit of U.S Army helicopter pilots. After a failed secret mission in Somalia, they both return to camp and later discovers that two other military officers  were captured during the operation and still alive, they seek to return to duty and rescue them.

I like that the show is giving us other stories to look forward to. Apart from their private and professional lives, you look forward to secrets, lies, bravery, guilt as well as government conspiracy.
Nora seems to be the main character, she is one of the first female pilots and will do what she can in order to keep flying. Nora tries to convince everyone that she is fit to fly again after the mission in Somalia. Her boyfriend, First Lieutenants Ian Porter (Charlie Barnett) isn't convinced she is ready to fly and the CIA officer assigned to investigate the mission, Thea (Melissa Roxburgh) doesn't trust her.

 

After lying in their debrief, Nora and Gallo agrees to keep the details on what happened in Somalia a secret. There are flashbacks of the mission in Somalia that explains what exactly happened.
Like how they discovered the prisoner they were retrieving was an American soldier thought to have been killed in action in 2014. How a mysterious Richard Lasky is the reason the soldier was taken captive and Nora killing  Richard while the unidentified soldier ran off.
Gallo and Nora begins to question why they were sent on the mission in the first place.
I guess someone on the inside knows something they weren't telling the others.
And I would like to know if these two will follow orders or do what they think is right.

Unlike 'The Brave,' and 'SEAL Team' , this show uses secrets, lies and government conspiracies to build up its story. So asides the action, you look forward to seeing how Nora and Gallo deals with the secrets, what other secrets, lies and conspiracies are yet to be known and how the whole story unfolds.

1 comment:

  1. Personally, i think Nora isnt ready to fly yet too, because from the cut-aways of the somalia mission, there were some unsolved conspiracies that still haunts her and until she solves all of them, I would not support her flying too. #teamarisley.

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