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The Agency

Name: The Agency
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Released: 2024-12-01
Rating: 7.2

★ 7,2 /10 (264 Votes)

2024 EN 2 Seasons

Overview

Covert CIA agent Martian is ordered to abandon his undercover life and return to London Station. When the love he left behind unexpectedly reappears, their romance reignites, pitting his career, his real identity and his mission against his heart while hurling them both into a deadly game of international intrigue and espionage.

Stream

First air date

01/12/2024

Votes

264

Popularity

37.2

Truth is a moving target.

Genres

Drama Mystery

Status

Returning Series

Type

Scripted

Created by

Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth

Networks

Paramount+, Paramount+ with Showtime

Language

Last air date

2026-06-21

Episodes

Website

www.paramountplus.com

Season 1

10 episodes • 2024 • ⭐ 5,3

Undercover CIA agent Martian is ordered to return to London. When the woman he left behind suddenly reappears, their lov…

Season 2

10 episodes • 2026 • ⭐ 4,2

Martian is a CIA agent living undercover in his own life. Samia, his lover, is a political prisoner in Sudan, and he wil…

Michael Fassbender

Brandon 'Martian' Colby / Paul Lewis

Jeffrey Wright

Henry Ogletree

Jodie Turner-Smith

Dr Samia 'Sami' Zahir

Katherine Waterston

Naomi Ford

Harriet Sansom Harris

Dr Rachel Blake

John Magaro

Owen Lublin

Saura Lightfoot-Leon

Daniela 'Danny' Ruiz Morata

India Fowler

Poppy Cunningham

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Andrew Brooke

Grandpa

Christian Ochoa Lavernia

Grandma

Reza Brojerdi

Reza Mortazevi

Ambreen Razia

Blair

Richard Gere

James 'Bosko' Bradley

Original Soundtrack

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The Agency Season 2 continues to reach for the moral complexity of prestige spy dramas, but its sprawling narrative mistakes complexity for depth. An overabundance of competing storylines diffuses the tension, sacrificing the focus and momentum that made Season 1 so compelling. Despite my high expectations, this season loses the narrative compass that guided the first season. Ironically, its sharpest suspense unfolds inside the office rather than in the field, while an overreliance on slow camera push-in zooms becomes so self-conscious that it distracts from the drama. The bottom line here: Se…

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