The Night Agent, season 2 review: action and suspense take you away

Gabriel Basso in The Night Agent

The Night Agent, season 2, puts Peter (Gabriel Basso) in the field full time to work through a complex series of seemingly unrelated events that work up to a thrilling season finale. Season 3 of this action thriller has already been approved.

The Night Agent covers a lot of geography in season 2. It begins with Peter in Thailand following some stolen intel. He wants to know who took it and what it was. Peter’s trainer and partner Alice (Brittany Snow) is killed in the effort. A mysterious man named Jacob (Louis Herthum) seems connected to it somehow. Peter and Alice were chased down by Solomon (Berto Colon) and a crew of killers. These two don’t seem all-important at the beginning of the 10 episodes in season 2, but they turn out to be the glue holding everything together, so keep an eye on them.

Luciane Buchanan in The Night Agent
I found you

In season 1, Peter fell in love with Rose (Luciane Buchanan). They haven’t seen each other in 10 months. But Rose is a computer genius and she uses facial recognition technology to find him. She goes to Thailand to see him and lands right in the middle of a gun fight. Instead of going back home to California like a sensible civilian, Rose hangs around for the whole season and gets involved in everything that happens.

Amanda Warren in The Night Agent
Catherine is the new boss

Catherine (Amanda Warren) is Peter’s new handler. She wants Rose to go home, except for the times she’s picking Rose’s brain to help with their mission. Catherine’s been in the FBI a long time.

Two subplots develop along with the main action.

Arienne Mandi in The Night Agent
Noor wants freedom

In New York City, Noor (Arienne Mandi) is an aide in the Iranian Embassy. She is talking to a guy in the CIA about providing him with intel so she can get her mother and brother out of Iran and escape to freedom in the U.S. herself. Her information isn’t good enough to satisfy him.

When Catherine hears what Noor wants, she takes over the case and Peter becomes the contact with her. Noor is in danger, of course, and as time goes by she has to do more and more to meet Peter’s demands and earn her freedom. The head of security in the Iranian embassy, Javad (Keon Alexander), is falling for Noor. This makes her situation even more fraught because he’s always around her.

A family of terrorists are up to something. Tomás (Rob Heaps) and his cousin Markus (Michael Malarkey) are running an operation involving stolen chemicals and a mobile chemistry lab. These two don’t see eye to eye on anything. They both have daddy issues with Tomás’ father. Despite their internal struggles, they manage to get their hands on something really dangerous that will kill a lot of people.

Jacob, the mysterious guy in Thailand, shows up everywhere. He’s got something to do with the intel being traded by everyone everywhere. And he has a pet politician running for President that he thinks he controls.

There’s plenty of action in this series. It’s exciting and full of suspense. You have to be willing to accept a lot in an action movie. One person kills off 10 attackers who can’t shoot straight and walks away unscathed. Okay. A small woman overcomes a powerful man. Okay. A chemist can make something that will burn you from the inside out and from the outside in. Okay.

But there was one scene in The Night Agent that just took me right out of the story.

Peter and Rose want to start a fire in a hotel to shut down the ventilation system. They find a gallon of sulfuric acid and a gallon of ethanol on a cleaning woman’s cart outside a hotel room. You know, because hotel maids always clean with sulfuric acid. Peter and Rose use it to create spontaneous combustion – a fire. What kind of nonsense is this we are asked to believe?

By the time the action is finished, we are left with it looking like Peter, Catherine, and the mysterious Jacob will be around in season 3. Fingers crossed Rose will be back, too, although there was another big farewell scene between Peter and Rose at the end. The big farewell at the end of season 1 didn’t take. I’m hopeful this one won’t either.

The women directors in season 2 were Millicent Shelton, Ana Lily Amipour, and Nina Lopez-Corrado. The series was created for television by Shawn Ryan based on a book by Matthew Quirk.

The entire season 2 is streaming on Netflix.


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