Netflix’s latest series, The Night Agent, premiered on March 23 and has already been renewed for a second season after immediately reaching Netflix’s Top Ten section in 93 countries. Netflix states that the action thriller series debuted in the #1 spot on the English TV List with 168.71M hours viewed and ranks as #3 for premiere week of viewing across all season one TV.

Based on the novel by Matthew Quirk, The Night Agent stars Gabriel Basso (Hillbilly Elegy, The Big C) as low level FBI Agent Peter Sutherland who works in the basement of the White House monitoring a phone that never rings – until the night that it does, propelling him into a fast moving and dangerous conspiracy that ultimately leads all the way to the Oval Office. The series also stars Luciane Buchanan (The New Legends of Monkey), Hong Chau (The WhaleWatchmen), Sarah Desjardins (Yellowjackets, Riverdale), Fola Evans-Akingbola (Call My Agent, Black Mirror), Eve Harlow (NeXT, The 100), Enrique Murciano (Bloodline, Father of the Bride 2), Phoenix Raei (Clickbait, Stateless), and DB Woodside (Lucifer, 24).

While you wait for the new season, here are 8 action packed shows like The Night Agent you can stream right now.

The Americans (2013-2018)

Number of seasons: 6

Cast: Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Holly Taylor, Keidrich Sellati, Noah Emmerich, Annet Mahendru, Costa Ronin, Alison Wright, Richard Thomas, Margo Martindale, Maximiliano Hernández, Susan Misner, Danny Flaherty, Julia Garner, Anthony Arkin, Frank Langella, Laurie Holden, Derek Luke

Synopsis: “At the height of the Cold War, two Russian agents pose as the average American couple, complete with family.”

Where to watch: Disney+, FX, Hulu, Prime Video

Bodyguard (2018 miniseries)

Number of seasons: 1

Cast: Richard Madden, Keeley Hawes, Sophie Rundle, Gina McKee, Jed Mercurio, Pippa Haywood, Paul Ready, Vincent Franklin

Synopsis: “Set in and around the corridors of power, Bodyguard tells the fictional story of David Budd (Richard Madden), a heroic, but volatile war veteran now working as a Specialist Protection Officer for the Royalty and Specialist Branch (RasP) of London’s Metropolitan Police Service. When he is assigned to protect the ambitious and powerful Home Secretary Julia Montague (Keeley Hawes), Budd finds himself torn between his duty and his beliefs. Responsible for her safety, could he become her biggest threat?”

Where to watch: Netflix

The Night Manager (2016 miniseries)

Number of seasons: 1

Cast: Hugh Laurie, Tom Hiddleston, Elizabeth Debicki, Olivia Colman, Tom Hollander, David Harewood, Tobias Menzies, David Farr, Alistair Petrie, Sobhita Dhulipala, Neil Morrissey, Douglas Hodge, Noah Jupe, Russell Tovey

Synopsis:The Night Manager is based on the internationally acclaimed novel by master storyteller John le Carré. This suspenseful thriller follows Jonathan Pine as he endeavours to bring down the notorious arms dealer Richard Roper.”

Where to watch: AMC+, Plex, Prime Video

The Old Man (2022 -)

Number of seasons: 1 with a second season confirmed

Cast: Jeff Bridges, John Lithgow, Amy Brenneman, Alia Shawkat, Leem Lubany, Bill Heck, Joel Grey, Pej Vahdat, Noor Razooky, E. J. Bonilla, Rowena King, Hiam Abbass, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Kenneth Mitchell, Rade Šerbedžija, Jessica Harper

Synopsis: “A retired CIA agent is hunted by both the agency he once worked for and his own nightmares, when an unknown man suddenly visits him after nearly three decades.”

Where to watch: Disney+, FX, Hulu, Prime Video

The Recruit (2022 -)

Number of seasons: 1 with a second season confirmed

Cast: Noah Centineo, Laura Haddock, Fivel Stewart, Colton Dunn, Aarti Mann, Daniel Quincy Annoh, Kristian Bruun, Vondie Curtis Hall, Byron Mann, Angel Parker, Kaylah Zander

Synopsis: “A fledgling lawyer at the CIA becomes enmeshed in dangerous international power politics when a former asset threatens to expose the nature of her long-term relationship with the agency unless they exonerate her of a serious crime.”

Where to watch: Netflix

Slow Horses (2022 -)

Number of seasons: 2 with a third season confirmed

Cast: Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden, Rosalind Eleazar, Olivia Cooke, Kristin Scott Thomas, Saskia Reeves, Freddie Fox, Jonathan Pryce, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Tamsin Topolski, Dustin Demri-Burns, Samuel West

Synopsis:Slow Horses follows a team of British intelligence agents who serve in a dumping ground department of MI5 – Slough House. Oldman stars as Jackson Lamb, the brilliant but irascible leader of the spies who end up in Slough House due to their career-ending mistakes.”

Where to watch: Apple TV+

Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan (2018 -)

Number of seasons: 3 with a fourth and final season confirmed

Cast: John Krasinski, Wendell Pierce, Abbie Cornish, Dina Shihabi, Ali Suliman, Michael Kelly, John Hoogenakker, Noomi Rapace, Tom Wlaschiha, Cristina Umaña, James Cosmo, Nina Hoss, Betty Gabriel

Synopsis: “Jack Ryan, an up-and-coming CIA analyst, is thrust into a dangerous field assignment for the first time. He soon uncovers a pattern in terrorist communication that launches him into the center of a dangerous gambit with a new breed of terrorism that threatens destruction on a global scale.”

Where to watch: Prime Video

Treason (2022 miniseries)

Number of seasons: 1

Cast: Oona Chaplin, Charlie Cox, Olga Kurylenko, Tracy Ifeachor, Alex Kingston, Ciarán Hinds, Beau Gadsdon, Adam James, Avital Lvova, Kevin Harvey

Synopsis: “Trained and groomed by MI6, Adam Lawrence’s career seems set. But when the past catches up with him in the form of Kara, a Russian spy with whom he shares a complicated past, he is forced to question everything and everyone in his life. A triangular relationship forms between Kara, Adam and his wife, Maddy; three people who are trying to expose each other’s secrets, navigate political and diplomatic relationships, whilst hanging onto their personal lives, and those they love most.”

Where to watch: Netflix

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