With 803 million hours watched, season 1 of The Night Agent represented a surprise success on Netflix, which had not communicated much about this new fiction before its release. It must be said that this American spy series had everything to convince the public with its plot full of action, twists and turns and conspiracies. A little less than two years later, season 2 arrives on Netflix this Thursday, January 23 for ten new supercharged episodes, still starring Gabriel Basso in the lead role of Peter Sutherland. But what is season 2 worth? The Night Agent ? Télé-Loisirs gives you its review.
The Night Agent (Netflix): what is the story of this season 2?
In this season 2 of The Night Agent, Peter Sutherland has joined the FBI’s secret cell, Night Action. Rather than picking up the phone when they need help, this time, he’s the one calling when he needs help! And that’s what he does when the operation he was working on in Bangkok goes wrong. Convinced that he must look for a new mole, within Night Action this time, Peter disappears and does things his own way, which is clearly not to the taste of Katherine, his handling officer. And of course, when Peter is in danger, it doesn’t take long for Rose to decide to come to his aid. The duo will be hunted again, while chasing new enemies and uncovering plots and foiling terrorist attacks.
The Night Agent : a season 2 under high tension on Netflix
Let’s keep the suspense a little on the rest but, like the first, it is difficult to put down this second season of The Night Agent. If not subtle, this spy series is very effective. It uses big springs and does not call on a very developed psychology of the characters, but is that really what we are looking for in this type of program? On several occasions, the dialogue nods to the series’ starting point, when Peter was in a basement FBI office, tasked with answering a phone that never rang, without really knowing what he was talking about. was about. A gimmick in this season 2, just like starting each episode with a flashback, which allows us to learn more about the characters.
The Night Agent : the intrigue around Noor is the most successful of this season 2
This season 2 of The Night Agent is like the first, without downtime and under permanent tension, even more towards the end of this salvo, when it focuses on the plans of the terrorists. But the subplot, about Noor (actress Arienne Mandi, who played Dani Nunez in the series The L Word: Generation Q), employed at the Iranian embassy, is undoubtedly the most successful, with a much more interesting female character than Rose. Here again, the audience is always tense, trembling for Noor at the slightest scene and sometimes amazed by her guts. The screenwriters did not hesitate to make clear choices and go quite far in the twists and turns. However, they did us a favor by not leaving us on a cliffhanger, but simply paving the way for the main plot of season 3, already announced by Netflix.
