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Positive:
10
Mixed:
6
Negative:
2
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Critic Reviews
Screen RantAug 28, 2025
Dec 16, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Stylish, smart and energetic, “The Recruit” is involving, but fairly plain-spoken: Unlike series that generate technical and political gibberish until one’s mind clouds over, what happens over the eight episodes remains easy to follow, despite its intricate narrative track.
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Dec 16, 2022
Season 1 Review:
The Recruit is a mostly silly show, but Centineo has more than enough charm to carry viewers through the more absurd parts of the season’s ongoing plot, and there are enough veteran actors in the supporting cast to make us think the comedy-thriller tone of the first episode will be able to be sustained for the entire season.
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Dec 15, 2022
Season 1 Review:
It’s a potentially star-making performance from an actor [Noah Centineo] we’ll be seeing more. A combination workplace comedy/espionage thriller, “The Recruit” zips along from place to place (Vienna, Phoenix, Langley), leaving blithe spirits and dead bodies in its wake.
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Dec 16, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Too much of “The Recruit” feels as if it’s on autopilot. The action, bombastic and violent, begins to run together, used as it is to juice interest somewhat at random. ... Give “The Recruit” this much — it ends with a nicely-done cliffhanger, elegantly seeded over the course of the season’s run.
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Dec 16, 2022
Season 1 Review:
[Owen's] an engine for the show’s plot to move forward, for us to skip recaps and watch episode after episode to see what happens. One just wishes there was more to this spy drama than cheap thrills wrapped around a pretty boy who keeps failing upward (and into the wrong hands, over and over again).
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The Daily BeastDec 16, 2022
Season 1 Review:
In sum, watching The Recruit is like watching a blank avatar run around in a video game for eight hours. Or a poorly written version of Barry. The show is too focused on the complicated (but boring) puzzle it's created for its protagonist that fails to create fascinating inner lives or dynamics between the people involved.
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Dec 16, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Whatever cutting satire or righteous anger The Recruit might have to offer is badly diluted over eight bloated hours — lost amid paper-thin characters, flimsy twists and a wishy-washy tone. What it turns out instead is a piece of content so forgettable, the CIA wouldn’t have to lift a finger to disappear it from public memory.
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