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Lose Yourself in The Agency
The Showtime spy thriller gets the genre’s essential tension just right.
Compared with the recent boom of espionage series subverting the traditionally self-serious genre — Slow Horses ’s lovable losers, Black Doves ’s anarchic sense of humor, The Day of the Jackal ’s soap-opera goofiness — this preoccupation seems damn near old-fashioned. When Martian learns Sami is in London for secret talks over the future of Sudan, he becomes the latest victim of his profession’s essential contradiction: Risk national security to reunite with his love, or eschew a chance at happiness for the sake of his country? Jeffrey Wright’s Henry, a gentler middle-management soul, has the misfortune of being longtime mentor to the subtly megalomaniacal Martian while suffering the everyday indignities of corporate life, including rats in his office.
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