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The series is less assured about what it’s doing this time around, and it falls into the trap of taking an idea suited for a movie and stretching it to fill a 10-episode season.
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The show’s breakneck plotting can be more exhausting than exhilarating. The Night Agent is too eager to please (and too Netflix-y in its reliance on spoken exposition rather than visual storytelling) to become fatally murky, but despite some impressive action, it doesn’t hit that hard, either.
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Once you’ve pressed play, you’ll probably stay until the somewhat implausible ending. However, The Night Agent has become a victim of its own success. A pale imitation of itself, phoning it in.