Paramount Plus will release Lioness Season 3, Episode 2, “No Sorrow Like the Survivor,” on Sunday, Aug. 9 in the US, keeping the series on its weekly Sunday schedule. Episode 1, “The Spider and the Fly,” has already aired, and the next chapter arrives with the season still unfolding toward a Sept. 20 finale.
That date is why viewers are searching now. Lioness has become a steady weekly appointment for people following Zoe Saldaña as Joe McNamara, with Nicole Kidman also back in the series that Paramount Plus describes as an “intense, female-led espionage thriller.” If you are waiting for the second episode, the answer is simple: it drops Sunday, Aug. 9, and Episode 3 follows on Sunday, Aug. 16.
The show’s third season keeps Joe inside the CIA’s undercover Lioness program while Kaitlyn Meade and Byron Westfield guide missions from the Situation Room in DC. Paramount Plus says Joe is still at the tip of the agency’s war on terror, but the series is also carrying that conflict into her own life. That is the sharpest pull of Season 3: the missions are global, yet the damage is not staying overseas.
The episode slate makes the pace easy to track. After Episode 2, “The Bear Is Infected” is set for Sunday, Aug. 16, followed by “Murder Hornets” on Sunday, Aug. 23, “The Idiot Army” on Sunday, Aug. 30 and “Sugar Land” on Sunday, Sept. 6. Episode 7 is listed as TBD for Sunday, Sept. 13, which signals that the title has not been set in the available schedule even though the air date is locked. The season ends with Episode 8, “The Unravelling,” on Sunday, Sept. 20.
For viewers in the US, Paramount Plus is the only place to watch Lioness. The service offers Paramount Plus Essential for $9 a month and Paramount Plus Premium for $14 a month, with Premium mostly ad-free and including Showtime. Anyone streaming abroad may also lean on a VPN for privacy and security, but the key point today is the same one that will matter next Sunday: the show is moving week by week, and Joe’s war is getting closer to home with every episode.
