Aristotle usually applied the idea of the golden mean to ethics, but if you’d asked him to place the Night Agent Season One on his sliding scale, he would have plonked it squarely in that Goldilocks zone (if he hadn’t died 2,345 years before it was broadcast).
The Night Agent was perfect TV, the ideal spy/action thriller to race through. Somehow it had the just the right balance of mystery, suspense, action, and rollicking plot. It was Netflix’s most viewed show in 2023, but despite that also oddly hard to explain. I couldn’t quite tell friends why I had binged it in a week, only that despite that apparent blandness it had just worked.
