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The Best Spy Show of 2024 Turns a CIA Thriller Into a Workplace Drama

In 2015, a spy series like no other debuted on French television. Le Bureau des Légendes (The Bureau), which revolved around the lives of agents in France's principal external security service, took heavy inspiration from the real accounts of former spies, weaving in their experiences with contemporary events. The result was one of the best TV shows to hit France’s airwaves, and the basis for one of the year’s most surprising new shows: The Agency.

Like its French predecessor, The Agency, which follows the exploits of deep undercover CIA agents, is remarkably grounded for a spy series. The series stars Michael Fassbender as “Martian,” a CIA agent suddenly yanked out of his six-year undercover assignment. Back at home base in London, Martian must navigate the mistrust of his higher-ups, played by Jeffrey Wright and Richard Gere, as well as the probing attention of his former handler (Katherine Waterston), while restarting an ill-advised affair with a woman (Jodie Turner-Smith) he fell in love with during his assignment. The premise is very similar to The Bureau, but the execution is not.

Created by Jez Butterworth & John-Henry Butterworth, the writing duo behind films like Ford v. Ferrari and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, The Agency might feature a few more explosions than the French series, but it doesn’t give into the temptation to “Americanize” its story too much. It’s still a series that takes its subject matter and characters seriously.

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Muncie Daniels (Colman Domingo) has mastered the art of being in the right place at the right time. A part-time contributor for CNN with a passion for social justice, Muncie prioritizes his professional reputation above all. It’s kind of the only thing he has going for him at the moment anyway — though he strives to look as polished as possible on paper, his personal life is strained at best. He’s on the outs with his wife Elena (Marsha Stephanie Blake), leaving their son Demetrius (Thaddeus J. Mixson) to navigate the trials of adolescence on his own.

But Muncie is also running from a past life: his younger days in North Philadelphia taught him all he knows about grassroots movements, but they harmed as much as they helped. He doesn’t talk much about his father, who served a life sentence in prison after a fatal altercation for fair housing, and he all but ignores the members of his family he left behind. When we first meet him in The Madness, a brittle tech noir created by Clement Virgo, he’s determined to move forward. It’s why Muncie is writing a novel in his downtime, renting a plush cabin in the Poconos to stoke his creativity anew.

What begins as a peaceful weekend away quickly spirals into the stuff of nightmares. When Muncie stumbles across a chopped-up body in the cabin next door — which turns out to be Mark Simon (Tahmoh Penikett), a notorious white supremacist with a wildly popular QAnon newsletter — Mr. “Right Place, Right Time” finds his life turned completely upside down.

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