History YMMV / SEALTeam

* ArcFatigue: The Echo Team story arc in the first season's second half lasts for 10 episodes, which viewers and critics felt dragged on too long. Future seasons managed to rectify this by shortening story arcs down to 3-5 episodes long and using standalone episodes as content to fill in between arcs.

* AcceptableTargets: Officers apparently. Almost every one is an ObstructiveBureaucrat, and the team has a low opinion of officers in general calling them "cake-eaters." Blackburn and Lisa are the notable exceptions.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Brett Swann's arc makes clear that service to one's country comes with a severe physical and mental toll but that veterans' services are poorly funded and don't come close to providing even adequate care to those that are suffering. "Medicate and Isolate" takes things even further by juxtaposing Swann's struggles with an extremely dangerous and ''expensive'' operation to retrieve the body of a dead soldier, illustrating the SkewedPriorities of the US government and how it grabs easy PR opportunities to the detriment of those for whom there are no easy solutions.

** Bravo Team going to the Middle East with hesitation to rescue an American ISIL bride, considering that most nations except America are hesitant to take back their foreign nationals who are in similar situations (except for the babies/young children) due to being potential security risks and uncertainity if their radical ideologies can be removed through intensive counseling.[[note]]Singapore is the only country known to institute a rigorous deradicalization programme in conjunction with Singaporean law enforcement/intelligence agencies if any Singaporean who practices Islam is arrested for conducting/or is about to conduct a terrorist attack.[[/note]]

** Bravo Team going to the Middle East with hesitation to rescue an American ISIL bride, considering that most nations except America are hesitant to take back their foreign nationals who are in similar situations (except for the babies/young children) due to being potential security risks and uncertainity if their radical ideologies can be removed through intensive counseling.[[note]]Singapore is the only country known to institute a rigorous deradicalization programme in conjunction Singaporean law enforcement/intelligence agencies if any Singaporean who practices Islam is arrested for conducting/or is about to conduct a terrorist attack.[[/note]]

** Bravo Team going to the Middle East with hesitation to rescue an American ISIL bride, considering that most nations except America are hesitant to take back their foreign nationals who are in similar situations (except for the babies/young children) due to being potential security risks and uncertainity if their radical ideologies can be removed through intensive counseling.

* AcceptableTargets: Officers apparently. Almost every one is an ObstructiveBureaucrat, and team has a low opinion of officers in general calling them "cake-eaters." Blackburn and Lisa are the notable exceptions.

* HarsherInHindsight: Doubles as ParanoiaFuel, the Mexico arc is full of stuff that's happening in the real world, including the actual disarming of police forces suspected of being cartel cronies by using Federal Police and Mexican military to go in by force. At one point, the [=SEALs=] are forced to get one of the Marines assigned to work with them out of their meeting since he's a local from a slum that's connected to a cartel even though the military has cleared him before without suspicion many times.
** Bravo Team going to the Middle East with hesitation to rescue an American ISIL bride is considering when most nations except America are hesitant to take back their foreign nationals (except for the babies/young children) due to being potential security risks and uncertainly if their radical ideologies can be removed through intensive counseling.

* AcceptableTargets: Officers apparently. Almost every one is an ObstructiveBureaucrat, and team has a low opinion of officers in general calling them "cake-eaters." Blackburn is the notable exception.

* CounterpartComparison: From CBS, Series/TheUnit since it tackles personal and professional issues of the [=SEALs=] similar to its Unit counterparts.

* ParanoiaFuel: Bravo Team in "Things Not Seen" discover that Jenna Robertson was rigged to an IED in case someone rescues her after she tries to bail on Abu Rakim due to his brutality.

* HarsherInHindsight: Doubles as ParanoiaFuel, the Mexico arc is full of stuff that's happening in the real world, including the actual disarming of police forces suspected of being cartel cronies by using Federal Police and Mexican military to go in by force. At one point, the [=SEALs=] are forced to get one of the Marines assigned to work with them out of their meeting since he's a local from a slum that's connected to a cartel even though the military has cleared him before without suspicion many times.

* HarsherInHindsight: Doubles as ParanoiaFuel, The Mexico arc is full of stuff that's happening in the real world, including the actual disarming of police forces suspected of being cartel cronies by using Federal Police and Mexican military to go in by force.

* CounterpartComparison: From CBS, Series/TheUnit since it tackles personal and professional issues of the [=SEALs=] similar to its Unit counterparts.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: One can make the for Kowal on whether he decided to give up and leave if it was because the [=SEAL=]s cornered that he'd be shot dead if he tried to fight back or if they appealed on his history as a GROM operator who hunted war criminals in the past.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: One can make the for Kowal on whether he decided to give up and leave if it was because the [=SEAL=]s cornered that he'd be shot dead if he tried to fight back or if they appealed on his history as a GROM operator who hunted war criminals in the past.

* CounterpartComparison: From CBS, Series/TheUnit since it tackles personal and professional issues of the [=SEALs=] similar to its Unit counterparts.