Low level FBI agent Peter Sutherland works in the basement of the White House manning a phone that never rings until the night it does, propelling him into a conspiracy that leads all the way to the Oval Office.
Stars: Gabriel Basso, Luciane Buchanan and Fola EvansAkingbola
Full Cast: Sarah Desjardins, Eve Harlow, Phoenix Raei, Enrique Murciano, D.B. Woodside, Hong Chau, Christopher Shyer, Ben Cotton, Kari Matchett, Andre Anthony, Jessie Liang, Toby Levins
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Watchseries; I have been looking for a new series to watch for a while. Started a few, didn't finish them. Had been looking for something similar to '24' and 'Person of Interest'. As 'The Night Agent' came out on Netflix, I gave it a shot and I found it entertaining. Spying, conspiracy, cliffhanger endings per episode, suspension, gun fights, moles in the whitehouse, technology. What more could you ask for?
Usually with series' now a days, the episodes get tedious, it loses its appeal and you forget to watch the remaining episodes. Not with this show.
Highly enjoyable and I hope Netflix decide to continue the show into further series'. Has a '24' element to it, reminded me of the British TV show 'Bodyguard' to begin with.
My only gripe is the amount of unnecessary profanity in some of the episodes. But, that's the level of people's conversations these days..
I have been looking for a new series to watch for a while. Started a few, didn't finish them. Had been looking for something similar to '24' and 'Person of Interest'. As 'The Night Agent' came out on Netflix, I gave it a shot and I found it entertaining. Spying, conspiracy, cliffhanger endings per episode, suspension, gun fights, moles in the whitehouse, technology. What more could you ask for?
Usually with series' now a days, the episodes get tedious, it loses its appeal and you forget to watch the remaining episodes. Not with this show.
Highly enjoyable and I hope Netflix decide to continue the show into further series'. Has a '24' element to it, reminded me of the British TV show 'Bodyguard' to begin with.
My only gripe is the amount of unnecessary profanity in some of the episodes. But, that's the level of people's conversations these days..
The Night Agent watchseries. Started out great and then it went downhill real fast. The acting is not bad... but if the story is problematic... what can the actors do? There is an overkill of action for no reason and the script is farfetched The characters are badly written and the bad guys are unbelievable and that is putting it nicely.
It's not like they didn't spend money money on this thing... the sets are nice and the overall production is first cabin. To me it seems like they thought they needed to put way more action than clarity... which fell to the wayside. Like another persons' intro... "Bad writing ruins everything".
Despite the low budget feel to this series, it percolates at an even keel but always aims forward. I was drawn in and binged it to the end. The action is well choreographed, the pace accelerating with each episode. The many plot points kept me intrigued; as each layer is uncovered, the intensity grows.
That is not to say this is perfect. Far from it. Despite the interesting plot, holes as big as the Grand Canyon make for some forehead-slapping moments. The dialog is colorless, derivative and cheap. The soap opera elements bog down some of the middle episodes but I'm glad I stuck with it. The pacing and action are worth it and the two main characters are appealing.
The Night Agent formula: the mix of Mission Impossible, 24, Patriot Games, and all those famous threats to US President combined into 1 TV series called The Night Agent.
The good news is it is entertaining and a great choice to relax with a bowl of popcorn.
The bad news is, there are not much of opportunities for every actor in this series to develop their characters. The series is very fast paced and leave very, very few seconds for an actor to show their acting prowess. This formula was successfully develop by 24 but The Night Agent only has 10 episodes to introduce the main characters, so they kept the main characters focusing on 1-2 person on focus at any given time.
Overall, if you are looking for a good entertainment to relax your tense brain and you like action films, watch The Night Agent, you'll get good action and fast paced story you usually enjoy in cinemas at TV screen.
Nowadays it's so usual to watch the first episode of a new series hoping they got it right, only to get disappointed pretty fast. This show seemed to work almost fine as a political/spy thriller but started piling up clichés and awful characters faster than the speed of light. Peter, the protagonist, is your usual rookie who knows better than his elders, to prove once more that this was written by some millennial. At least the actor playing Peter is decent and his role, albeit predictable, is sort of OK. Unfortunately, the female lead Rose is terrible from every point of view because her acting chops swing from poor to non-existent, she has one stone-faced expression, zero range, and no chemistry with the male lead. As if poor skills weren't enough, her role of entitled, smug, arrogant, know-it-all is absolutely obnoxious. By episode two I wanted the assassins to get her.
The Asian lady playing Diane is also wooden and expressionless, with minimal range, except bossy and again, her role is totally unsympathetic. It does not help that her vocabulary is peppered with F-words that don't add "grit" to the character, just cheapen it... and her wig is absolutely terrible. Then the assassins are a bad copy of those two in the Americans and THAT show was BRILLIANT, but changing wigs does not equal smart spies as in the Americans. The self-righteous, arrogant female bodyguard is just the icing on this third-rate, rotting cake... and obviously who's guilty, but the compulsory old white males?
Apart from the awful bunch of stereotypical leads and supporting, the plot is the usual conspiracy at the top level which will be thwarted by the low-ranking agent and smarty pants Rose. I give it two only because the first episode was watchable, but it went downhill from there.
All the standard spy caper tropes are solidly in place, but they're played without quips, over the top cartoon action or overwrought melodrama. The eye rolling moments are kept to a minimum and people act like I would think real people would react under the given set of circumstances. I'm three episodes in so far and it's still holding my interest. I have seen a few of the higher brow espionage movies and they seem dull as dirt. They may be closer to what being a spy is actually like, but who wants to watch hours of clandestine meetings in dark alleyways? So far, I don't really feel like I'm being beaten over the head with any social agendas or woke messaging. Unless things go seriously south, my current rating will stand. If they do, I'll be back to revise it.