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Just like a fellow contributer, I am also a Brit and find in disrespectful how SEAL Team portrays British SF. A few series ago the SAS were portrayed as amateur cowboys, now the SBS? Seriously?

On top of that this transition to Paramount is awful. Gone are the action and great writing. Now it just seems so depressing, miserable and no action. It's like Dad's Army. Paramount single handly ruined the series. Well done. Slow clap...

I have put up with Sonny's "I hate water" "I hate boats" quirks for too long but this is the straw that broke the camels back. For those who do not understand SEAL stands for SEA, AIR and LAND which is everywhere they operate. BUDS, which is Basic Underwater Demolition School, takes place mostly in the WATER! The riggors they put you through in BUDS is not designed to make you tough or improve you, you have to be pretty fit just to get into BUDS. No its designed to weed out the people who don't want to be there or will have a problem working in the fields they need you to work in. They expose you to drowning, freezing water, survival floating, swimming underwater etc. If you don't get over your issues with water you will never make it.

That said I was ok with Sonny's quirky behavior. I love the beach but hate getting sand in my pants, but it won't stop me from going. In this episode no only does Sonny not want to use the water as a means to escape but doesn't even know the benefits of doing so, which are laid out IN BUDS. This is what happens when you stop listening to your SEAL advisors and kill them off in the show.

I'm a bit slow.... But I've finally figured out that the show is a metaphor for the USA - Jason and the USA are failing both physically and mentally. Illness and and physical decline is a theme that pervades the show.

Morally, the characters are uncertain of direction. No real clarity of purpose.

The relationships in the show are as dysfunctional as the American Dream.

No one is pulling in the same direction. There is no sense of purpose. No feeling that there is a bright future (or even an acceptable future) that is worth the sacrifices being made.

Everything is joyless. Including Jason's romantic interludes.

Now that I understand where the show is going, I appreciate the artistic value of the writing. But is it entertaining? Depends on what you are looking for. Some could find it depressing, albeit enlightening.

This series continues to pick up speed going downhill. There used to be better writing, better acting, and more action. Now it has become more drama-filled, bad writing, terrible acting, little action, and most of it makes absolutely no sense. Sadly, it's not the Seals Team it once was.

I have loved this series and will continue to do so. Jason's story is hugely important and the final story tie ins, for all of the Team, are now starting to happen. Overall I would give this show a 9/10.

But, as a Brit can I just say to the Producers how disrespectful the SBS casting and writing was, however brief their part. These guys are just as hard, if not harder than SEALs and yet they both looked & behaved like junior IT office staff. For a show that has given so much in painting the picture of modern war and it's actors, I was extremely disappointed in this.