The Night Agent

Thankfully, The Night Agent character Maddie Redfield has a Secret Service agent up to the task. Chelsea Arrington, played by Fola Evans-Akingbola, is one of ...

She also appeared in the “Striking Vipers” episode of Later, she was cast as one of Khal Moro’s wives in the sixth season of Game of Thrones. A series regular on Siren, if you go to Evans-Akingbola’s social media, you’ll notice that many of her comments and likes are from fans of the show, some who even hope they’ll one day do a reboot! Chelsea Arrington, played by Fola Evans-Akingbola, is one of the main characters in the new But when her boss assigns a new member to her team who comes with a lot of baggage, Chelsea must rise to the challenge of this new obstacle and ensure he doesn’t ruin her potential future career promotion. Thankfully, The Night Agent character Maddie Redfield has a Secret Service agent up to the task.

If you liked Netflix's 'The Recruit' starring Noah Centineo, you'll love Shawn Ryan's 'The Night Agent,' starring Gabriel Basso, Luciane Buchanan, and Hong ...

Ryan’s series raises the stakes of The Recruit, feels more rooted in reality, and takes itself more seriously, giving it a clear upper hand. When evidence points towards the Oval Office, The Night Agent‘s characters and viewers alike will question who can be trusted. Coming off of The Whale, The Menu, and Poker Face, Chau slips on a gray wig and brings the star power as a complex, buttoned-up problem solver whose even-tempered, empathetic falters under mounting pressure. Hendricks pivots from vetting a stack of largely laughable letters to dodging bullets alongside Max Meladze (Laura Haddock), a former CIA asset arrested for murder, while Sutherland goes from manning the phones to evading a manhunt. When the president’s chief of staff, Diane Farr (Hong Chau), extends an olive branch by assigning Sutherland to doldrum desk duty in the White House basement, he answers a distressing night action call and winds up on the run with Rose Larkin (Luciane Buchanan), a terrified cybersecurity expert whose aunt and uncle were mysteriously assassinated. As the duo fights to stay alive, ever-changing narratives involving the president (Kari Matchett), vice president (Christopher Shyer), his daughter Maddie (Sarah Desjardins), and other FBI staffers unfold in a gripping, fast-paced action-thriller.

Netflix's newest spy thriller “The Night Agent” reminded me of '90s and '00s projects like “In the Line of Fire” and the Bourne movies. That's a compliment.

How does Sutherland get to the bottom of something fishy at the top level of world government and keep Rose alive at the same time? On the other end of the line is a former CEO named Rose Larkin (Luciane Buchanan), who was given the number and a code to activate Sutherland by her aunt and uncle, who Rose thought were just a pair of ordinary suburbanites. Her security detail is run by a tough agent named Chelsea Arrington (the engaging Fola Evans-Akingbola) and a new addition in Agent Erik Monks (D.B. Netflix’s newest spy thriller “The Night Agent” reminded me of ‘90s and ‘00s projects like “In the Line of Fire” and the Bourne movies. Peter is assigned the Night Action desk, which means he sits in front of a phone for hours every night and then goes home again. For his trouble, he’s basically branded a suspect in the bombing and demoted to a thankless desk job manning a phone that never rings.

Hong Chau and Gabriel Basso stand out on "The Night Agent," a Shawn Ryan thriller based on Matthew Quirk's novel.

Still, it’s a pleasure to see a show better than it might have been, when so often the opposite is true: “The Night Agent” sparks with curiosity and intrigue, a richly detailed show that propels viewers forward with a relentless pace. So it is with “The Night Agent,” created by Shawn Ryan of “The Shield,” and based on a novel by Matthew Quirk. [Hong Chau](https://variety.com/t/hong-chau/) — the Oscar-nominated actor, who’s appeared in “The Whale,” “The Menu,” and “Downsizing” — is an interesting element on [Netflix](https://variety.com/t/netflix/)’s new series “ [The Night Agent](https://variety.com/t/the-night-agent/),” and a revealing one.

In one of those odd juxtapositions that come with the streaming age, a new Netflix drama about an FBI agent in the White House, "The Night Agent," has a ...

Charles Dance (“Game of Thrones”) also enters the chat in the later episodes, but by then, “Rabbit Hole” is already confusing enough that it’s barely worth the effort to try sorting things out. Netflix courts various audience niches, but this more closely approximates the meat-and-potatoes fare that has found success on more traditional platforms. That includes warnings from the President’s chief of staff, Diane Farr (Hong Chau, fresh off her Crisply told and smartly cast, the adaptation of Matthew Quirk’s novel issues a call worth answering. Perhaps inevitably, there are some clunkier aspects. [ “24”-like franchise](https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/01/entertainment/24-legacy-review/index.html) with “The Night Agent,” a twisty thriller with high-stakes corruption reaching deep into the corridors of Washington and a stalwart FBI agent who suffers for our sins.

The Night Agent star Luciane Buchanan was born on July 16, 1993, in New Zealand. Here's everything to know about the Netflix star!

Luciane also has a few new titles on the way, too! One of these actresses is Luciane Buchanan, who plays Rose in the series. You’ll learn more about Rose when you stream every episode of the Netflix original series.

Netflix's latest twisty thriller series begins with FBI agent Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso) preventing mass loss of life after he spots a bomb being placed ...

For her role in catching the bad guys, Chelsea is offered the top job of being one of the President's personal Secret Service agents. In their bunker, Maddie finally realises just what a sleazeball her father is, and decides to leave him there and take her chances with the bomb above ground. Meanwhile, Rose and Peter have convinced Farr to help them, after she realises her fellow conspirators have gone rogue and are planning to kill not just Zadar, but the President as well. By the end of the penultimate episode, Maddie has been rescued and she and Chelsea are reluctantly en route with Maddie's extremely suspicious-looking father to Camp David, where the President is due to meet Zadar for a friendly chat. So they're off to Camp David, too, to hopefully foil the plot, save the President and clear Peter's name. On the other end is tech expert Rose, who has just seen her aunt and uncle murdered in their home by unknown assailants, and now they are after her.

Gabriel Basso plays a young FBI agent whose dead-end assignment connects him to a deadly conspiracy in Shawn Ryan's adaptation of the novel by Matthew Quirk ...

Around the sixth or seventh episode, though, some real tension begins to build, and all of that banter turns out to have engendered some investment in some of the characters. Basso starts off almost uncomfortably stolid, but as he digs deeper into Rose’s case and into his own past, the increased emotion offers a reminder of how good he was back on The C Word. There are also conversations between the two assassins, who never even get actual names, and lots of foundation-laying for the bond between Chelsea and her evasive ward. This doesn’t always mesh with Peter and Rose’s investigative process, which quickly falls into a rut of following a trail — stretching across Vancouver locations that never pass convincingly for the Beltway — to a person who gives them partial information and then recounts a personal story that immediately puts them in jeopardy. Rose is shocked to find out that her aunt and uncle were spies and she’s concerned by a conversation she overheard about both an upcoming terrorist attack and a mole in the White House. At the other end of the phone is Rose Larkin (Luciane Buchanan), a disgraced former cyber-security CEO who got the number for the highly secure phone from her aunt and uncle before they were murdered by a pair of vicious assassins (Phoenix Raei and a nicely wild-eyed Eve Harlow). That means lots of banter between Peter and Rose, an almost instant flirtation of the sort I rarely buy. Some (Bosch) have been good, some (Reacher) have been decently true to the spirit of the source material, and even the ones that were awful at least played directly to their target audience (please stop sending me DMs, [Terminal List](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-reviews/the-terminal-list-review-1235173286/) fans). There isn’t close to enough story to fill 10 hours, and it’s interesting how much of that expanded space goes to conversations that are, on the surface, pretty meaningless small-talk. [Netflix](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/netflix/) doesn’t have that same business model, but [Shawn Ryan](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/shawn-ryan/)’s adaptation of Matthew Quirk’s novel [The Night Agent](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/the-night-agent/) still feels like an Amazon-style show. One year later, Peter is working a secretive and entirely dead-end job in a windowless office of the White House, stationed in front of a mysterious phone that never rings. Woodside’s Erik Monks, returning to the job years after taking a bullet for a previous president.

TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. In the new Netflix series "The Night Agent," Gabriel Basso plays a young FBI agent stuck in a dead-end job who ...

And this "The Night Agent" does provide. And if you want to learn more about how we put the show together and learn more about our producers and what they're paying attention to, subscribe to our free newsletter. You can tell the upbeat tale of reporters exposing the truth about Watergate in "All The President's Men." GROSS: John Powers reviewed "The Night Agent," the new series streaming on Netflix. I got a kick out of the toxic relationship between the spineless Veep and the daughter who despises him. In the new Netflix series "The Night Agent," Gabriel Basso plays a young FBI agent stuck in a dead-end job who suddenly finds himself in the middle of a huge conspiracy. Alas, like most so-called political thrillers - the recent Apple TV+ series "Liaison" is another example - "The Night Agent" never rises above formula. Are you ready to do whatever it takes to get to the bottom of this muck, to keep Rose Larkin safe? And that was enough to keep me watching happily until the very end. It was Rose who made that late-night call to the night action desk as assassins were murdering her secret agent aunt and uncle. You can spoof it the way "The Manchurian Candidate" sent up anti-communist frenzy. Me, I'm hooked on thrillers whose heroes get caught up in treacherous political shenanigans - you know, the attempted military coup in "Seven Days In May," the assassination corporation in the "Parallax View" or the many delirious intrigues that fueled "Homeland."

Gabriel Basso stars as FBI agent Peter Sutherland, whose career is in trouble. Not only was his dad a disgraced G-man, his son thinks unfairly, Peter just ...

And this "The Night Agent" does provide. And if you want to learn more about how we put the show together and learn more about our producers and what they're paying attention to, subscribe to our free newsletter. You can tell the upbeat tale of reporters exposing the truth about Watergate in "All The President's Men." GROSS: John Powers reviewed "The Night Agent," the new series streaming on Netflix. I got a kick out of the toxic relationship between the spineless Veep and the daughter who despises him. In the new Netflix series "The Night Agent," Gabriel Basso plays a young FBI agent stuck in a dead-end job who suddenly finds himself in the middle of a huge conspiracy. Alas, like most so-called political thrillers - the recent Apple TV+ series "Liaison" is another example - "The Night Agent" never rises above formula. Are you ready to do whatever it takes to get to the bottom of this muck, to keep Rose Larkin safe? And that was enough to keep me watching happily until the very end. It was Rose who made that late-night call to the night action desk as assassins were murdering her secret agent aunt and uncle. You can spoof it the way "The Manchurian Candidate" sent up anti-communist frenzy. Me, I'm hooked on thrillers whose heroes get caught up in treacherous political shenanigans - you know, the attempted military coup in "Seven Days In May," the assassination corporation in the "Parallax View" or the many delirious intrigues that fueled "Homeland."

Gabriel Basso, Luciane Buchanan, D.B. Woodside and Hong Chau star in Shawn Ryan's adaptation of Matthew Quirk's novel.

But the first episode established that it’s a show with a lot of stock characters and a conspiracy that doesn’t start in a particularly interesting way. The biggest intrigue might be with Ellen (Eve Harlow) and Dale (Phoenix Raei), whom we see executing someone in Racine, WI at the end of the first episode. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Slate, Salon, RollingStone.com, VanityFair.com, Fast Company and elsewhere. Our Take: There’s a certain amount of lunkheadedness that envelops the first episode of The Night Agent, more than you’d expect from a show written by Ryan. Maybe that’ll inject some personality into the series, but in the run up to that, all we see are flat line readings and action scenes. He does keep her safe, but not before dealing with conspiracy theorists outside his apartment and a car chase going the wrong way down a local highway. He also seems to be in a loyalty tug-of-war between White House chief of staff Diane Farr (Hong Chau) and his FBI boss, Deputy Director Jamie Hawkins (Robert Patrick). She is staying with her aunt and uncle, who just came back from a business trip. Peter answers and talks her through hiding from the gunmen until law enforcement gets there. As he’s getting treated for his injuries, he spots the man who left the bomb, chases him into an alley, but loses him when a car slams into him. [The Shield](https://decider.com/show/the-shield/), is now adapting [Matthew Quirk’s novel The Night Agent](https://www.amazon.com/Night-Agent-Novel-Matthew-Quirk/dp/0062875469?tag=decider08-20&asc_refurl=https://decider.com/2023/03/23/the-night-agent-netflix-review/&asc_source=web) for Netflix. The Gist: On the Metro train, one of the passengers, FBI agent Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso) notices a man leave a backpack and get off the train.

An FBI agent in a dead-end job suddenly finds himself in the middle of a huge conspiracy. This new 10-part series is a cross between a paranoid thriller ...

And this "The Night Agent" does provide. And if you want to learn more about how we put the show together and learn more about our producers and what they're paying attention to, subscribe to our free newsletter. You can tell the upbeat tale of reporters exposing the truth about Watergate in "All The President's Men." GROSS: John Powers reviewed "The Night Agent," the new series streaming on Netflix. I got a kick out of the toxic relationship between the spineless Veep and the daughter who despises him. In the new Netflix series "The Night Agent," Gabriel Basso plays a young FBI agent stuck in a dead-end job who suddenly finds himself in the middle of a huge conspiracy. Alas, like most so-called political thrillers - the recent Apple TV+ series "Liaison" is another example - "The Night Agent" never rises above formula. Are you ready to do whatever it takes to get to the bottom of this muck, to keep Rose Larkin safe? And that was enough to keep me watching happily until the very end. It was Rose who made that late-night call to the night action desk as assassins were murdering her secret agent aunt and uncle. You can spoof it the way "The Manchurian Candidate" sent up anti-communist frenzy. Me, I'm hooked on thrillers whose heroes get caught up in treacherous political shenanigans - you know, the attempted military coup in "Seven Days In May," the assassination corporation in the "Parallax View" or the many delirious intrigues that fueled "Homeland."

SPOILER ALERT: The series includes details about new Netflix series The Night Agent, based on the bestselling novel by Matthew Quirk. Gabriel Basso in 'The ...

RYAN: I really don’t want to say too much because I do occupy a somewhat unique position in that I’ve been part of the previous five negotiations, and the last time I was around, I was co-chair of the negotiating committee so I do know that my words carry extra weight. I think these are all questions that we almost certainly would love to answer in a potential Season 2, and I certainly hope we get the opportunity to do that. But one of the things that happens in thriller movies when they try to forge a romance is they usually seem rushed, and it to me doesn’t seem earned. I don’t want to tell this specific story over five seasons, I want to tell this specific story in one season and give some satisfaction to the audience that they see how things turn out. What I will tell you is that the initial pitch for this show that we sold to Netflix was that each season would tell its own, mostly self-enclosed, a beginning, middle and end story, and any future seasons would include a few but not most of the characters that we saw in the previous season. But that was the story we set out to tell, and we told it. If it was confusing to you as a viewer, then I have to re-examine that, but that’s the rationale for why she did what she did. She was very young, and she was worried that maybe she, as a person, was a little young for the role, especially playing a contemporary of the President. As it relates to the President, again, I had the story in mind about the Vice President and his daughter in college. In the book, the mole in the White House is Russian, and so is the assassin, which is not the case in the series. In a book, you can put the readers into the heads of the characters and you understand what they’re thinking, why they’re behaving. I told Sony, I want this to be a project I do, and then I said, I really don’t want to pitch this.

During this week's 'TV's Top 5' podcast, the five-time member of the WGA's negotiating committee opens up about the dangers of mini-rooms, not investing in ...

I always believe that investing in writers and investing in writers through production is one of the best investments you can make it a TV show. I believe that a major reason the strike happened in 2007 was that the companies couldn’t agree among themselves what to do about the internet and future streaming. I insist on it for all of my shows because I know that whatever money we’re spending on a writer, that writer is going to save multiples of that in efficiencies. One of the reasons why I left and went to Sony in the first place was it appealed to me that I can approach the creative first and then work to figure out where the best place to sell it rather than being pressured to service an in-house buyer. We were trying to make a deal with the AMPTP but they represent different companies that may have different priorities and different instincts about how the negotiations can go. We know the time is beneficial to the creative but is there an economic impact for writers when it takes this long to get a show on the air? I never thought it belonged there but I had a sister studio that was insisting that it that it be first presented to its sister network, the sister network wanted it. I did a Beverly Hills Cop [pilot for CBS](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/shawn-ryan-beverly-hills-cop-589340/) that that wasn’t picked up for political reasons — not for quality reasons — by a guy who has now been [thoroughly exposed](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/les-moonves-accused-sex-crimes-violence-by-more-women-1141436/) to the industry. We raise a lot of questions in the first couple episodes of The Night Agent and we will give you the answers to those questions. Maybe this is my broadcast upbringing, but I think you can make things that are really good and that appeal to a lot of people. I don’t eat cheeseburgers in real life — I eat cheese, I eat meat, but I don’t eat them together — so for me, we tried to make it a really good show. The thing that made it personal for me was that I love the idea that Peter was a man who had unanswered questions about his deceased father.

Eve Harlow was born June 20, 1989, in Moscow, Russia. She is currently 30 years old and stands at 5-feet-7-inches. Learn more on The Night Agent star here.

Her dedicated fans definitely found the perfect person to celebrate. [The Night Agent](https://netflixlife.com/2023/03/23/night-agent-cast-guide-meet-cast-netflixs-political-thriller-series/) gave us tons of interesting characters that we have grown to enjoy watching. Naturally, we don’t want to give too much away about Ellen and her role in the Netflix original series, especially since we’d rather have you tune in for yourself and see what all the hype is about.

The first season of Netflix's 'The Night Agent' comes to an explosive end. Literally. Gabriel Basso as Peter Sutherland in The Night Agent Image via Netflix.

Before the president boards, Peter shoots the inside man in the head and holds the president at gunpoint as he tries to explain the situation to her and her remaining security. Redfield tells Maddie the president would like to speak with her alone, though he leads her to a protected underground bunker with a Secret Service agent, where he plans to stay with Maddie until the attack is over, and he can rise from the ashes as the new president. Peter is taken into custody, while Chelsea and Maddie arrive just in time to explain everything to President Travers about the conspiracy and clear Peter’s name. Back at the White House, Peter and Rose have a private meeting with President Travers. Elsewhere, Chelsea has located a bomb in the lodge, evacuating the building, while Maddie orders her father to let her out of the bunker. With Diane on their side, at least for the time being, Peter and Rose demand that she uses her power to get them into Camp David to stop Redfield and Wick (Ben Cotton) from killing both Zadar and Travers, as Redfield’s ultimate goal has shifted to taking her place as President of the United States. As Rose attempts to fix communications, Peter sets off to find the president and stop the attack. As Diane drives them to Camp David, she finally enlightens Peter on the metro bombing. But, an unexpected trip to Camp David puts her plan on hold, as the team has figured out that Zadar will be at Camp David and another attack is in the works. The finale of The Night Agent begins with a flashback to a pivotal moment in Peter’s life. Meanwhile, Peter and Rose confront Diane about the Camp David attack, Diane is stunned to learn about this, saying she would never do anything to hurt President Michelle Travers (Kari Matchett). But, an unexpected ally in Chelsea Arrington (Fola Evans-Akingbola), a member of the Secret Service assigned to protect the Vice President’s daughter Maddie (Sarah Desjardins), has provided them with a life vest.

So, Maddie, Chelsea, Peter and Rose Larkin work together to prevent the attack. They learn that the attack with be at Camp David, and that Omar isn't the only ...

They learn that the attack with be at Camp David, and that Omar isn’t the only target – so is US President Travers. So, Maddie, Chelsea, Peter and Rose Larkin work together to prevent the attack. The action series is based on Matthew Quirk’s bestselling book and follows a low-level FBI agent Peter Sunderland (played by Gabriel Basso) who works nights manning a phone in the basement of the White House in case it rings, and one night, it does.