 The American review site Metacritic rated the series a 64 out of 100 , indicating " generally favorable reviews " from 12 critics . David Hinkley of the New York Daily News rated it four stars out of five , stating it is " a little cartoonish in the same way Seagal or Arnold Schwarzenegger action movies were cartoonish , exaggerating characters and action . But " Strike Back " also differs sharply and significantly in that the villains here aren 't the random abstract caricatures from those films , like throwback Nazis or Jamaican drug lords , " adding that the villains give the series " an added level of intensity , because we have a more visceral sense of the potential consequences . " Linda Stasi of the New York Post rated it three out of four stars , summing up the series as ; " Good action , good characters and , besides , it 's the only show in the history of TV where the term , " [ fucking prick ] " is code . I mean , you gotta love that , no ? " 
