Netflix invests in espionage with two new series featuring 'agent' in the title.
), “The Night Agent” is no worse than workmanlike but, also, workmanlike. It’s nothing special, nothing awful and exactly what many want from television, with action for its own sake — twists and turns and sundry threads tangled, untangled and finally tied in a bow. The characters are generic — plucky heroes, superior superiors, inscrutable politicians, eccentric assassins — which is not in itself a problem; it’s just that little interesting is done with them.
Meanwhile, Rose Larkin , who is about to give a Ted Talk, is signing papers that will fund her cybersecurity company. This character point seems designed specifically to validate the computer wizardry she’ll later be called upon to display. Given the job of filling a series the length of four already-overlong modern Bond movies, this all can start to feel repetitive, and when the dark plot at the back of everything was finally revealed, it seemed to me that the villains expended a lot of energy and spilled a lot of blood for pretty meh reasons. Then again, John Hinckley Jr. shot Ronald Reagan to impress Jodie Foster — the truth can be more banal than fiction.
From my perch, “Agent Elvis” succeeds more as a curiosity than a comedy, which is to say, I found it only occasionally funny — blood splatter doesn’t do it for me, I confess — but generally interesting, if only to see what scenes and references might turn up next.
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