99 Words About … The guilty pleasures of ‘Strike Back’

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With all the gunfire, explosions and vigorous sex, they should just call it “Bang!”

Cinemax bought a piece of the existing British counter-terrorism drama “Strike Back” (10 p.m. Friday), then shoehorned in a washed-out Delta Force operative (Sullivan Stapleton).

Unofficial tagline: When the going gets tough, he gets laid.

He’s the Ugly American to the noble British hero (Philip Winchester).

And the only thing higher than their body count are the cheekbones of Rhona Mitra, who joins the guilty pleasure to add a new sexual dynamic to what’s either TV’s dirtiest action series or its most brutal softcore porn.

– CHRISTOPHER LAWRENCE