The Night Agent: Season 2 | Official Trailer | Netflix
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It's still a dumb show, but it sucked me in. I suspect the good part is that, once again, we're trying to figure what's going on, i.e. we have a puzzle to solve. Not only are we trying to figure out who the villain is, but we're also trying to figure out just what their crime was. Adjacent to this is are the very subtle clues we get as to who the bad guy(s) is/are. In season one I was immediately suspicious of the White House Chief of Staff, but for the first half of the series she seems to be a straight-shooter, a hard-ass, but a stand up girl. We don't get any real evidence to her culpability until we get half way through, and even then we aren't sure just what kind of bad behavior she was involved in.
We've got the same thing going on again here. Once again, our guy's boss is suspect, but all the clues are superficial, i.e. she's a bitch, but being a woman in charge of security, you probably need to be. Besides, our guy's boss in the last season turned out to be the villain, and the producers wouldn't pull this same stunt again, would they?
There's plenty of action, fights, chases and gun battles. There was a great scene near the end of season one where our guy and his buds are pinned down by the nasty girl operating a scoped rifle from the top of a tower overlooking a shipping container depot. Things are looking grim for our guys, but then the good girl, who was supposed to wait outside, manages to climb up that tower without being observed and knocks nasty girl over the railing and she plummets to her death. It was such a surprise that I howled.
So every so often there is one of these unexpected bits that make the whole thing worth while.
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