David Boreanaz leads a clandestine American-badass unit in the new CBS military proceduralSEAL Team.

The first episode is bookended by two stealth ops, a ship-to-ship gunfight and a night-vision snatch-and-grab.

The tactical precision and comms-chatter banter suggests nothing so much as a direct adaptation of theCall of Dutymultiplayer.

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Which could work, really, especially with such a solid cast.

(How many lead actors on connection TV shows spend screen time looking at screens?)

The first few episodes are directed by Christopher Chulack, whose fluid and kinetic work gaveERandSouthlanda special luscious grit.

But then the show has Brown tell Boreanaz, You mightactuallybe thebest damn gunfighter who ever lived.

If not, youre awfully close!

By then,SEAL Teams gone full jingo.B