SEAL Team season 7

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SEAL Team
Season 7
Starring
No. of episodes4
Release
Original network Paramount+
Original releaseAugust 11, 2024 (2024-08-11) 
present
Season chronology
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Season 6
List of episodes

The seventh and final season of the American military drama television series SEAL Team premiered on Paramount+ on August 11, 2024. [1] The series follows Bravo Team, an elite unit of United States Navy SEALs. The cast features David Boreanaz, Neil Brown Jr., A. J. Buckley, Toni Trucks, Raffi Barsoumian, Beau Knapp, and Dylan Walsh.

Contents

The season was impacted by both the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike and 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. [2]

Cast and characters

Main

Recurring

Episodes

No.
overall
No. in
season
Title [3] Directed byWritten by [4] Original release date [5]
1051"Chaos in the Calm" Christopher Chulack Spencer Hudnut & Dana GreenblattAugust 11, 2024 (2024-08-11)
1062"Chaos in the Calm Pt. 2"Christopher ChulackMark H. Semos & Kinan CopenAugust 11, 2024 (2024-08-11)
1073"Ships in the Night" S.J. Main Muñoz Tom Mularz & Stephen GasperAugust 18, 2024 (2024-08-18)
1084"Heroes and Criminals"Mark H. SemosAriel Endacott & Madalyn LawsonAugust 25, 2024 (2024-08-25)
1095"A Perfect Storm"TBADana Greenblatt & Leanne KochSeptember 1, 2024 (2024-09-01)
1106"Hundred-Year Marathon"TBATyler Grey & Maggie StabileSeptember 8, 2024 (2024-09-08)
1117"Mission Creep"TBATom MularzSeptember 15, 2024 (2024-09-15)
1128"Appetite for Destruction"TBADana Greenblatt & Brian BenekerSeptember 22, 2024 (2024-09-22)
1139"The Sea and the Hills"TBAPeter Rudolph & Mac Bundick JrSeptember 29, 2024 (2024-09-29)
11410"The Last Word"Christopher Chulack [6] Spencer HudnutOctober 6, 2024 (2024-10-06)

Production

Development

On January 18, 2023, Paramount+ renewed the series for a seventh season. [7] On November 15, 2023, it was announced that the seventh season would be the series' last. [8]

On March 14, 2024, David Boreanaz revealed the series finale titled as "The Last Word". The episode was written by Spencer Hudnut and directed by Christopher Chulack. [9]

Casting

On December 12, 2023, Beau Knapp was cast as a series regular for the seventh and final season. [10] On December 15, Dylan Walsh was cast as Captain Walch, a recently appointed commanding officer of DEVGRU, who is by-the-book, but also has aspirations for politics. [11]

Release

The seventh and final season premiered on August 11, 2024. [1]

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