- Arc Fatigue: 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 between story arcs.
- Alternative Character Interpretation: One can make the case for Kowal on whether he decided to give up and leave if it was because the SEALs 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.
- Harsher in Hindsight:
- Doubles as Paranoia Fuel, 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 ISIS 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 uncertainty if their radical ideologies can even be removed through intensive counseling.note
- Paranoia Fuel: 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.
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