When it gets going, the Netflix show is a pleasingly fraught watch about an Iranian mole, packed with risky missions and heroic acts. Breathtaking stuff
he Night Agent started life as a determined little underdog. Uncool, old-fashioned and on the wrong side of Netflix’s tendency to hype some shows while leaving others unloved, it had to fight its way into the streaming platform’s most-viewed section and critics’ best-of-2023 lists, which it did simply by being a sturdily constructed, twist-packed conspiracy thriller. Once viewers switched it on, they couldn’t switch it off.
Now, something has to change. Peter is a proper night agent and the show, created by Shawn Ryan – who also ran black-souled cop saga The Shield – can’t pull the same trick of sneaking up on an audience who don’t expect much because it seems so wholesome and humble. It needs to go bigger. Peter and Rose hole up in his bare apartment, rented under a false name, surveilling a villain before chasing him down alleyways then unexpectedly being shot at by powerful forces unseen. It’s fine, but for as long as it sticks to the basics there’s a danger of the show’s self-imposed limitations becoming too much of a turn-off. The Night Agent refuses to be sexy – Peter and Rose’s romance is hesitant and, by modern TV standards, chaste – or funny.
While Peter, Rose and the new Only Person They Can Trust, top spook Catherine , carry on doing their thing, trying to work out what the significance of the stolen documents is and who is really buying and selling them, the story is also told from another angle.
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