How's the move to Paramount+ been?
SEAL Team is finally back for its sixth season and the first few episodes have been nothing short of intense. Season 6 marks the shows second season on Paramount+ and its first full one as one of the shows originals It moved after airing four episodes during Season 5. Now nearly a year later showrunner Spencer Hudnut is opening up about how SEALs switch from network television has impacted the direction of the show.
With the military dramas move to Paramount+ the writers and producers are able to do more than they would on network television. This was actually one of the things David Boreanaz liked about the move to Paramount+. More recently, Spencer Hudnut told TV Insider that the experience has been beneficial for the show from a creative standpoint:
Just creatively and from a writing perspective its been so liberating. I think it allowed us just to dig a little deeper into these storylines be a little darker and we pride ourselves on our authenticity and I think the show feels even more real than maybe it did on CBS. We did not want to change the formula too much because, obviously we had a strong audience over at CBS but I think its been a really good move for the show. And I think this season, in particular you really get to see what we can do with 10 episodes. So it was exciting from a writing point of view to break a season that really only covered 10 episodes as opposed to 22 of the past.
A show like SEAL Team can definitely be limited by the restraints of network television. But thankfully the producers now have the ability to not only have longer episodes and fewer installments at that but to tell more accurate stories of the brave men and women who fight for our country. And of course the writers can enhance the characters dialogue with swear words which is a good thing.
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