The Night Agent season 2 is slick, engrossing pulp ...Middle East

The second series of The Night Agent has a lot to live up to. In 2023, season one quickly became the most watched show on Netflix, with 812 million hours watched around the world. It’s still the streamer’s seventh most watched series of all time.

If it somehow passed you by the first time, now is the time to pay attention. If you want something fun and easy to switch your brain off to, that is.

We pick up with leading man Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso) 10 months after saving President Michelle Travers in the first series. Newly promoted from glorified emergency phone operator to full-time member of Night Action – a top secret spy operation for the US government – he’s moved from the basement to an intel mission in Thailand with new partner, Alice (Brittany Snow).

The Night Agent goes straight in the deep end and their mission is busted by their targets early on. Peter heads back to New York with his mental health in tatters and paranoia at an all-time high, convinced there’s a mole trying to take Night Action down.

Peter looks more like a cloned Richard Madden from Bodyguard who runs like an inflatable tube man rather than James Bond, but he’s a die-hard good guy who manages to be incredibly endearing amid the chaos.

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Meanwhile, his sort-of girlfriend Rose (Luciane Buchanan) is working at a tech company and deep in therapy – becoming embroiled in a political scheme after the death of your aunt and uncle will do that to you. When she gets a call from a strange man asking where Peter is, she calls in reinforcements before launching her own attempt to find him. She’s so good she outdoes the CIA.

With the duo reunited, off they go on another political thrill ride, uncovering a global conspiracy involving an insider selling intel to the Iranians, a chemical terrorist plan by the former dictator of an unnamed country, and an old confidential mission known as Operation Foxglove.

Peter’s boss Catherine (Amanda Warren) has a keen eye on things after having him pushed on her by the POTUS and unsure he’s mentally strong enough to be part of Night Action. She doesn’t trust him, and Peter doesn’t trust her, but thankfully both share a loose definition of the phrase “Top Secret” around any assumed ally they come across.

Throw in a side-quest with an Iranian informant trying to sell info to the CIA to save her brother before he’s conscripted, a British toff baddie with a score to settle and a brute with a nondescript Eastern European-esque accent and a dastardly plan and we’re off to the races.

The Night Agent doesn’t offer anything new but tricks you into thinking you’re watching something clever, if you don’t think about it too much. It’s also not afraid to make bold moves – no one is safe from being killed off, a trait far too rare in shows with bullets flying around willy-nilly.

But this is pure pulp. The story is spoon-fed to you in between gun fights, at such a speed that you forgive any plot holes, with a whole heap of charm and just enough sense to be an engrossing watch.

Spy thrillers are television’s favourite genre at the moment, from Slow Horses to Black Doves to The Agency. So while the new series of The Night Agent doesn’t reinvent the wheel, with its slick visuals, fast pacing and heart-stopping shootouts, it really doesn’t have to.

‘The Night Agent’ is streaming on Netflix

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