Last Updated on 04/07/2023 by てんしょく飯
CBS’ True Lies (a reboot of the film), which began airing on 1 March; A Spy Among Friends, starring Damian Lewis, which began on 12 March; Rabbit Hole, starring Kiefer Sutherland, which became available on Paramount+ on 26 March; and This spring sees a string of spy action thrillers, including Citadel, starring Richard Madden and Priyanka Chopra Jonas, which is set to make its global debut on Amazon Prime on 28 April.
The Night Agent, which became available worldwide on 23 March, is my favourite human drama, and the one I’ve been most excited about since I received my screener in January.
The moment I finished watching the pilot, I was like, “Who wrote such an interesting drama?” and I immediately looked it up. And when I discovered that the writer, executive producer and showrunner was my favourite Sean Ryan, I was very much convinced. I was very much convinced.
Based on Matthew Quirk’s bestselling novel of the same name, this is the first spy action/thriller written in a long time by Sean Ryan, who is well-known for The Shield, The Unit, The Chicago Code, Live to Me and Last Resort in the past, and more recently Timeless and S.W.A.T. A spy action thriller. The characters are so appealing that the story captures the viewer’s heart from the very first episode, and we want to watch it all the way through to the end! No, you have to see it through to the end! It is Ryan’s finely detailed, yet roaringly funny work that makes you want to see it through to the end!
The original story alone could not fill ten episodes, so 1) two long-simmering Secret Service guards with the US Vice President’s daughter (a veteran who shielded the former President and a young woman who aspires to be the President’s personal bodyguard) are added, 2) a female assassin who does not appear in the original story is made into a pair of brutal assassins playing at being a married couple, 3) a pair of assassins who are not in the original story are made into a pair of brutal assassins playing at being a married couple. 3) the president was a woman because the show wanted to portray the vice-president’s father-daughter relationship, and so on, resulting in a 10-episode Season 1. In other words, The Night Agent is a story of a novice FBI agent who uncovers secrets and lies in order to stop a conspiracy, with powerful car chases and gory action sequences, and at the same time, it is a story of the daily workplace drama between men and women (differences in working styles, ways of thinking and perspectives due to gender), with a rich human touch. A humanistic action thriller with intrigue and intrigue. For the first time in a long time, I felt the thrill, the excitement and the tension of watching No Way Out (1987), the ultimate spy action thriller film.
Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso) is a fledgling FBI agent who works the night shift (8pm-4am) in the basement of the White House as a night switchboard operator on the emergency emergency direct-dial telephone of the Night Agents (elite counter-intelligence operatives). However lowly, Peter’s ‘hairy 110 dispatcher’ job is a tedious one because the President’s Chief of Staff, Diane Farr (Hong Chau), has been working on a case involving her late father, a stigmatised ‘traitor’ who was not only a traitor to his country but also a traitor to his own. ‘I was a patient child and worked hard,’ she said. Peter was convinced that if he worked hard and patiently, he would one day see the light of day, and despite the cold stares of those around him, he worked in a secret room like a hole in the wall, working a hotline that was supposed to never ring. He feels the cold stares of those around him, but he is still on hotline duty in his secret cave-like room.
I’m about to be killed by an intruder! Help!” Peter’s boring life in public life takes a 180-degree turn the night he receives a panic phone call, and he finds himself caught up in a whirlpool of intrigue he never imagined. The doomed caller is Rose Larkin (Lucien Buchanan), who is staying at her aunt and uncle’s house. Peter’s instructions bring Rose back to life, but what awaits her is the evil spirits of the mountainous political world where the ringleaders/conspirators of the conspiracy her aunt and her husband were talking about are active in the dark. Having lost her job, family and everything else, Rose is left on her own, and is repeatedly ordered by the authorities to turn herself in, but she can’t trust anyone except Peter, so she fights off the relentless attacks of a pair of hit men and tries to find out why her aunt and her husband were brutally murdered.
Peter is a hero, reminiscent of the ‘knight on the white horse’ in fairy tales, as he declares to such a skeptical Rose: ‘I was ordered to protect you with my life’. However, as the son of a former intelligence officer who died in an accident while being stigmatised as a traitor, he is not prepared to challenge the government or the authority represented by Diane and his FBI superiors, and tries to play the perfect ‘warrior’ role while keeping an eye on his surroundings.
On the other hand, Rose, whom the Knight on the White Horse must protect at all costs, is not a typical ‘captive princess’ (i.e. a weak, victim) from a fairy tale. She is a civilian, a disruptor and innovator with a track record of entrepreneurship, so she is not a “There are no rules. Ignore them!” and is the type of leader who imparts “energy, motivation and courage” to the by-the-book, inexperienced Peter. Although Peter is supposed to be completely superior in terms of strength, Rose sometimes lends him a hand. Even so, Peter is not repulsed or threatened by Rose’s superiority over him. I’m used to the toxic masculinity that tries to push him down from above when he sees a woman, but Peter is the ‘knight on the white horse’ of the new generation. Maybe it’s because we’re in an emergency where there’s no room for arguments like “don’t be a woman and butt in” or “men should be fat”? (Laughs) Or perhaps the two heroes of this fairy tale are the new generation of ‘knights on white horses’, a new type of duo that can flexibly take on authority and enemies in the shadows and in the sun. They are dependable.
Another thing I applaud is Ryan’s philosophy of writing, which is that love at first sight is a lie, and that love only comes true over time. I’m a critic of films that don’t have the time to slowly depict the process of falling in love: ‘Too many quick-fire couples are entertaining!’ That’s why he took his time with Peter and Rose’s love. Ryan meticulously depicts how Peter and Rose, who are strangers, build trust and gradually open up to each other as they cuddle and solve mysteries while being chased by assassins. It may be hard to call it slow-mo, since it only takes about a week from their first meeting to the end of the film, but it’s because just as a bud blooms slowly in the sunlight, there’s no way love can grow unless the two understand each other’s way of thinking, appreciate each encounter, and grow together to get out of a crisis.
The last time I saw Gabriel Basso as Peter was when he played Adam, Cathy Jamieson’s (Laura Linney) only son, in Cathy’s Big C: What I Can Do Now. I had no idea that the complaining teenager had grown up to be such a fine ‘knight on a white horse’! I’m thrilled. I’m not as stout a leader as Rose, so when she says, “I’ll protect you with my life”, I fall head over heels in love with her. Now I can say this with a smile, but the flip side of this toxic masculinity is that a man should protect a woman, and if he can’t protect her, he’s not a man! If you can’t protect them, you’re not a man!” Perhaps they had seen through my secret true feelings? The fact that he was not saved by the Knight on the White Horse made him a man with a strong desire to save everyone! I have become a man with a strong ‘desire to save’ everyone. This has nothing to do with this drama… . . (Laughs)
But could Lucien Buchanan have played the clever and stout-hearted leader Rose (whom Ryan refers to as the ‘alpha woman’) in such a light-hearted and sarcastic way? Is it because Rose’s life experience is so new that she hasn’t yet become an obnoxious woman? Or is that the land of actress Buchanan? Come to think of it, Lucy Preston (the character Ryan portrayed as the heroine in Timeless and played by Abigail Spencer), whom I still revere as a heroine, was also a strong-willed, energetic powerhouse for her small stature. At the point of casting, Ryan’s choice might be the ‘alpha woman’ who always seems to be the female role model. Ryan, who says it’s “extremely difficult to find a twenty-something hero”, chose Basso and Buchanan to be the new generation of “knights on white horses”, so watch out for them.
On 29 March, six days after its launch, Netflix announced the renewal of The Night Agent for Season 2 due to popular demand. Season 2 renewal of the international hit ‘Emily Goes to Paris’ was announced 50 days after Season 1 was released, so this is the first time in Netflix history that a renewal has been announced on the sixth day. The Night Agent was also second only to Wednesday, which recorded an astonishing 341.23 million hours of playback in the five days of the week of 21 November 2022 (168.71 million hours in four days), but with the addition of the second week of distribution, its total playback time was 385 million hours. hours, making it the leader in the thriller genre. With a season two renewal assured, The Night Agent continues to go from strength to strength and is the most entertaining human interest conspiracy action thriller of the moment.
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