YMMV / S.W.A.T. (2017)

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• Arc Fatigue: The Ship Tease for Street and Chris lasts until the penultimate episode of Season 5 - with Chris leaving the series in the following episode.
• Complete Monster: See here.
• Crazy Is Cool: Street's driving and the use of the unmarked Dodge Charger's bull bars to ram a getaway car in "Pilot" via PIT maneuver.
  • Hondo using the Black Hawk chopper in "Cuchillo" to get in close and shoot the suspect of the same name.
  • Luca one-ups Street by using the Terradyne Gurkha Black Betty to PIT a minibus. Armoured vehicles are not supposed to have the agility to pull off a precision high-speed maneuver like that.
• Just Here for Godzilla: A lot of people only tuned in to the show when Ryan and Shane cameoed.
• Replacement Scrappy: Whilst both characters were introduced before Chris Alonso left the series at the end of Season 5, Powell and Cortez are generally considered inferior replacements for Chris. Following Street and Luca being written out of the show in Season 7 whilst Powell and Cortez received increased screentime alongside Alfarra, another previously introduced minor character, this perception only increased.
• Special Effects Failure
  • The series heavily relies on CGI fire instead of actual pyro-effects, and quite often it is painfully obvious that a flame or explosion isn't really there. Especially frustrating if behind the scenes footage shows a real explosion/fire which was painted over.
  • Season 5 Episode 9 has a bad guy relieved of his hand gun in hand-to-hand combat. The stuntman nudges the actor's arm and the pistol is sent flying in a straight line through a window several feet away with a trajectory and velocity making the serious scene a big laugh. Even if the actor had thrown the gun it wouldn't have moved the way it did.
• Stoic Woobie: Commander Hicks was widowed several years before the series began, and has struggled to move on with his life, with several failed attempts at getting back into the dating world. On top of that, Hicks has a strained relationship with his son John Paul, an LGBTQ rights activist and recovered drug addict.
• The Woobie:
  • Jim Street is the son of a drug addict mother, who killed his physically abusive father in cold blood when he was a child, and then tried to have Jim claim she acted in self-defence. Street then spent the rest of his childhood in foster care, with his mother gaslighting him into believing she was an innocent victim of circumstance all the while; a significant part of the first two seasons is built around Street becoming wise to Karen's manipulations and accepting the rest of 20-Squad as his Found Family.
  • Buck Spivey, the disgraced former commanding Sergeant of 20-Squad. Following his dismissal from SWAT, Buck's life goes from bad to worse as his marriage falls apart; Season 3 episode "Stigma" focuses on 20-Squad's panicked attempts to track Buck before he tries to kill himself.
  • Victor Tan, following the mid-Season 6 revelation that wife Bonnie was having an affair behind his back. The normally strait-laced Tan takes this news so bad, that he causes a drunken bar brawl and gets suspended from S.W.A.T..

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