# The Night Agent-anyone watching it? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, netflix\ **Created:** [April 3, 2023, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-night-agent-anyone-watching-it/982083 "2023-04-03T12:36:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2023, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-night-agent-anyone-watching-it/982083/21 "2023-04-08T03:33:19Z")
Oh. Yeah, I wondered about it, but I thought the dialog resolved that OK. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2023, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-night-agent-anyone-watching-it/982083/22 "2023-04-08T05:40:25Z")
I thought the resolution was meant to be a joke. For the longest time I kept wondering if they were going to tie Rose’s failed company into the main plot somehow. That might have been too big a coincidence, though. I’m sort of curious where Farr’scharacter was going to go when the heroes caught up with her. Surely she’d be under heavy suspicion for taking a trip just when things popped off. And what was up with the two assassins. Why couldn’t he “perform”? And I did pity her-poor lady clearly needed help. Lastly, should I ask a mod to add “Spoilers” to the thread title? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2023, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-night-agent-anyone-watching-it/982083/23 "2023-04-08T06:13:14Z")
I enjoyed it. Binged the whole thing in one afternoon. My only gripe is the two protagonist hooking up.It was a bit of an eye roll for me. ---
**Author:** ![ASanders](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asanders/32/3367_2.png) [@ASanders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASanders)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2023, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-night-agent-anyone-watching-it/982083/24 "2023-04-09T19:48:45Z")
We’re very much enjoying it and will finish it up tonight. I’m looking forward to rereading this thread and its spoilers afterwards! ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-night-agent-anyone-watching-it/982083/25 "2023-04-10T14:28:17Z")
I’ve only just started the show, two eps in, and it looks like nice not-exactly brain challenging fun so far. Has a bit of “24” feel. But I’ve already run into something so completely out-of-the-believable that it throws me. So the Baddies manage to turn off all the power to a ritzy hotel … which has no backup systems at all? And our Hero and heroine are meeting for a late breakfast, but then they flee through the hotel, and there’s NO ONE in the stairs/hallways? Not a single guest popping out of a hotel room to gripe about their power having gone off? And then they run through the back end parts of the hotel, including the kitchen, and there’s not a single worker anywhere??? No kitchen staff dealing with the dishes from breakfast, the trays collected by room service? Nobody is there prepping ANYTHING for the lunch service? No. You can have all the conspiracies you want, involving everyone up the the President, all nine justices of the Supreme Court, hell, throw in the Pope if you want, I’ll buy it. But NOBODY at work in a hotel’s kitchen regardless of the hour of day or night? Nope. Just no. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-night-agent-anyone-watching-it/982083/26 "2023-04-10T14:44:32Z")
Yeah, I noticed that as well. I only counted one: the room service/cleaning supervisor who was tasked. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-night-agent-anyone-watching-it/982083/27 "2023-04-10T14:46:07Z")
Maybe they were filming during COVID? I recall reading somewhere that the recent “Reacher” series appeared to take place in a mostly empty town because they were shooting with health guidelines still in place. ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Tom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc348/32.png) [@Big\_Tom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Tom)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-night-agent-anyone-watching-it/982083/28 "2023-04-10T15:09:32Z")
Thanks for mentioning there was a book. I just ordered same. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-night-agent-anyone-watching-it/982083/29 "2023-04-10T15:14:03Z")
So far so good on the book. I can see the framework for the series in it. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-night-agent-anyone-watching-it/982083/30 "2023-04-10T15:34:30Z")
I made it through the end, and the second half was better than I expected. That’s probably mostly due to low expectations rather than any improvement on its part. All in all, it was good entertainment. It doesn’t stand up to much deep thought, but it doesn’t need it. > [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > No. You can have all the conspiracies you want, involving everyone up the the President, all nine justices of the Supreme Court, hell, throw in the Pope if you want, I’ll buy it. But NOBODY at work in a hotel’s kitchen regardless of the hour of day or night? Nope. Just no. It’s kind of funny what bugs me and what doesn’t. (Major spoilers for the conclusion) Hacking passwords in a few minutes? Sure, go for it. VP is a certifiable psychopath and decides a few terrorist attacks are a good idea? Yeah, VPs are a shifty bunch. But Farr deciding to join the conspiracy as her only option made no sense. By the end, she’s telling the assassin to kill the VP’s daughter. There’s no character path that goes from loyal chief of staff to that point. The helicopter scene at the end was also one ridiculousness after another. In what world is holding a gun to the President’s head a good idea? Just shout “there’s a bomb on the helicopter” and SS won’t let her get on it, no need to threaten her life. And then after he’s taken down and they’re about to handcuff him, some junior SS agent runs out and says “he’s OK, let him go” and everyone just…does it? And then Rose, some random woman who doesn’t have clearance to be in Camp David, let alone near the President, runs out and everyone is just “hello nice lady.” Ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Tom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc348/32.png) [@Big\_Tom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Tom)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-night-agent-anyone-watching-it/982083/31 "2023-04-10T15:59:13Z")
Thanks for the feedback. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-night-agent-anyone-watching-it/982083/32 "2023-04-10T16:02:04Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > But Farr deciding to join the conspiracy as her only option made no sense. By the end, she’s telling the assassin to kill the VP’s daughter. There’s no character path that goes from loyal chief of staff to that point. Yeah, she was very…obsessed with the President. I think she was also in love with the job, honestly. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2023, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-night-agent-anyone-watching-it/982083/33 "2023-04-25T00:18:24Z")
We just finished binging it last night and I think I enjoyed it better than most. Part of that is because the female lead doesn’t swoon/run away/stand by helplessly, which is what happens on 98% of these shows. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2023, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-night-agent-anyone-watching-it/982083/34 "2023-04-25T17:39:18Z")
The thing that bugged the most about the conclusion was that All communications with Camp David, internal and external, are down, and that’s _not_ a threat high enough to pre-emptively evacuate the President? I was certain it was going to turn out that the head of the Secret Service (Almeda?) was in on the plot, that’s the only way that particular bit of boneheadedness made sense. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2023, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-night-agent-anyone-watching-it/982083/35 "2023-04-25T18:13:39Z")
And afterwards, no one’s going to ask why the VP just happens to be in the bunker just when the blast goes off? FBI Blandsome’s cop friend was fun, I liked him. And I did wonder more about the relationship between the two assassins. Why couldn’t he have sex with her? Both of them did a good job acting. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2023, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-night-agent-anyone-watching-it/982083/36 "2023-04-25T19:39:38Z")
religious reasons or perhaps a war injury? ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2023, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-night-agent-anyone-watching-it/982083/37 "2023-05-20T09:03:42Z")
Just finished watching this and would echo the comparisons with _24_. It is fast paced, enjoyable enough, but quite shallow and a bit ridiculous. It’s popcorn: you can’t help having another handful, but by the end you’re not really satisfied. I give it 6/10: perfectly worth watching but completely unremarkable. Some spoilers… While watching the earlier episodes I couldn’t decide if the Chief if Staff was either a far too obvious mole and therefore deliberately rather wooden and unconvincing, or just a really poor performance by the actor. Having watched it all now, I am still not sure! I’m disappointed Robert Patrick didn’t last long. I didn’t know he was in it so was pleasantly surprised when he showed up early on, as he’s an excellent actor. So naturally, he got bumped off within about ten minutes. I assume the Wick (?) character will be featured as the villain in the next series. He didn’t come across as very charismatic so I hope they’ve got another villain lined up alongside him. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2023, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-night-agent-anyone-watching-it/982083/38 "2023-05-20T11:15:23Z")
Was _anyone_ in it really charismatic? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2023, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-night-agent-anyone-watching-it/982083/39 "2023-05-20T22:49:21Z")
I was captured by the first episode, but after four of them I just trailed off, and never got around to the rest. A shame, as it had promise as being something new to say, but ended up being too similar to hundreds of other things. It kind of reminded me most of _The Bodyguard_, the British series from five years ago. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2023, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-night-agent-anyone-watching-it/982083/40 "2023-05-21T03:47:45Z")
> [@dummygladhands71](#): > > Formulaic and just OK I’m watching _Night Agent_ and _Citadel._ They both have good-looking women “from the sub-continent” and chiseled males “from Caucasia”. They both have over-wrought action sequences and emotions, and plot holes that demand suspension of disbelief. And I doubt I’ll hang in there much longer with either of them. I seriously keep getting the two of them mixed up… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-night-agent-anyone-watching-it/982083.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-night-agent-anyone-watching-it/982083.md?page=3)