Missed that 7-part CBS series? It ended in 2024 — now it’s ruling Netflix
A CBS series that’s already wrapped has muscled into Netflix’s US Top 10, serving up a post-finale surge you probably didn’t see coming.
Well, here we go again—another TV show getting a surprise post-mortem revival, all thanks to Netflix’s bottomless streaming pit. This time it’s SEAL Team, the military drama that quietly wrapped up its seven-season stint in 2024, only to find itself suddenly basking in new popularity well into 2026. Maybe viewers finally got tired of tidy murder docs and decided they wanted more explosions and night-vision montages on their watchlist.
SEAL Team broke into Netflix’s Top 10 TV Shows in the U.S. on 23 August 2026, climbing past fresh crime docs and a handful of glossier imports.
A Quick Look at SEAL Team’s Run
In case you missed it the first time round (or actively avoided military dramas from habit), SEAL Team made its original debut on 27 September 2017 over on CBS. The series stuck it out for seven seasons, officially concluding on 6 October 2024—that’s when David Boreanaz and the rest of Bravo finally got to hang up their kit bags. But apparently, a quiet sign-off isn’t the end these days; nearly two years later, folk are bingeing it like it dropped last week.
The series never really tried to reinvent the wheel—if you like tense operations, tactical jargon, and a crack team of operatives getting dropped into pretty much any global hotspot, SEAL Team delivered. The plot puts you behind the scenes with Bravo Team, led by senior chief Jason Hayes (David Boreanaz, finding new ways to scowl and brood after Bones). He’s joined by:
- Ray Perry (Neil Brown Jr.), Jason’s reliable right-hand man
- Sonny Quinn (A. J. Buckley), the sort who can break bones and hearts with the same lack of effort
- Clay Spenser (Max Thieriot), a legacy SEAL who actually survives longer than you’d expect
- Lt. Cdr. Eric Blackburn (Judd Lormand), steady as the team’s commander
- Mandy Ellis (Jessica Paré), their sometimes CIA analyst, usually with a laptop in hand
- Ensign Lisa Davis (Toni Trucks), filling out the military protocol and operational expertise
The show never shied from the classic tropes: extreme ops, emotional fallout, home life chaos. It’s not just non-stop gunplay; a fair slab of each episode turns on what all this constant danger does to its characters. Maybe that’s why audiences kept turning up—in one of those rare turn-ups for the books, SEAL Team holds an 84 percent audience score over on Rotten Tomatoes.
Still, the real story here isn’t about cliffhangers or character deaths—it’s about how a seven-season drama with a quiet finale can suddenly muscle its way back onto the streaming charts. SEAL Team went from weekly network footnote in 2024 to top 10 on Netflix in 2026, showing there’s still plenty of life in the old warhorse, so long as the Netflix algorithm is in a generous mood.