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Gabriel Basso as Peter Sutherland – Image: Dan Power/Netflix © 2023
Willpower the agent of the night be back for a season 2? That’s probably on your mind if you’ve quickly watched all ten episodes of the show, which hit Netflix on March 23. So will the show come back? Early statistics look promising, so here’s what we know about the agent of the night season 2 so far.
Serving as an adaptation of Matthew Quirk’s novel, the agent of the night novel (along with some expanded and original ideas), the show follows a young FBI agent who answers a call that plunges him into a deadly conspiracy involving a mole in the White House.
The show lands on Netflix from Sony Pictures Television and showrunner Shawn Ryan, who is behind titles like The shield and SMASH
Official renewal status: not yet renewed
Our renewal prediction: Probable renovation.
Netflix has yet to decide on the agent of the night And if he will return for a second season.
As we’ve covered above, it’s going to come down to the numbers; So far, the first numbers look solid. Obviously, a lot of factors come into play, such as the show’s budget (which reportedly ranges from $2-3 million per episode, up to a total of $30 million) and factors like completion rates.
Shawn Ryan has implied that there is room for more story Talking to Deadline:
“I certainly have some ideas; You probably want to keep them for me until the time comes. What I will tell you is that the initial pitch for this show that we sold to Netflix was that each season would tell its own story, mostly self-contained, with a beginning, middle, and end, and any future season would include a few but not most of the characters we saw in the previous season.”
We suspect we’ll know if we’ll see more night agents sometime between April and May 2023.
This section will be a work in progress over the next few weeks as we track all the different metrics for the agent of the night.
Netflix itself every Tuesday post 40 stats per hour for its top shows and movies and its data shows that The Night Agent had a great debut on Netflix.
According to their press release, “The action thriller ranks #3 in opening week viewing across all of TV Season 1 and appeared in the Top 10 in 93 countries.”
Here’s how the weekly hourly numbers break down so far:
| week period | Hours seen (M) | Range | Week in the Top 10 |
|---|---|---|---|
| March 19, 2023 to March 26, 2023 | 168,710,000 | 1 | 1 |
How do the numbers compare to other Netflix Originals? Well, we can compare to a few other shows that debuted last year and just in terms of weekend openings, The Night Agent beat out the likes of The vigilant, the recruit, and The Lawyer Lincoln.
The Night Agent Raw Hours vs. Other Netflix Originals
If we break down the hourly data into CVE (Full Viewing Equivalent: Taking the length of the show and dividing it by the hours), we can see that it beat out Keep Breathing and 1899, but fell just slightly behind The Watcher.
In our first week top 10 report, What’s on Netflix contributor Frederic said the show had the “second best launch for any series released on a Thursday, just behind The vigilant which ended up getting renewed (a feat for a limited series at the time).”
Early FlixPatrol stats suggests the agent of the night it has become the biggest show on Netflix worldwide after its initial debut. By March 26, 80 countries had the agent of the night as the number 1 program, with eight countries having it as either the number 2 program or the third largest program in South Korea.
What about external factors? The show soared in the ranks according to televisionstats.com, measuring from sources such as Wikipedia, Google Search, Reddit and IMDb. Since March 25, it is the number 1 program on the Internet, surpassing South Park, Daisy Jones and the six, yellow jackets, and Love is blind.
TelevisionStats.com statistics for The Night Agent
What about the critical acclaim? Audience scores have beaten critics’ scores so far, but they’re mostly positive overall.
In rotten tomatoes, as of March 29, the show has a rating of 82% from the public and 69% from critics. The series has a 7.7/10 based on over 12,000 reviews on IMDb and more on Metacritic It has a rating of 68.
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Warning: The Night Agent season 1 spoilers ahead.
While the agent of the night Season 1 certainly answers the biggest questions by the end of episode 10, there is still a lot to learn.
By the time the end credits roll, we learn that Diane Farr, the president’s own chief of staff, is the mole and worked with Vice President Redfield and Gordon Wick to plan the subway bombing. As a result, The Night Agent ends relatively well, but there’s still a lot to potentially explore. After all, Peter ends the season by flying out for his first mission.
As Ryan mentioned in the aforementioned Deadline interview, he suggested that if “they’re successful enough that Netflix wants more seasons, I think there would be a whole new world where you’d see a limited number of characters from this current season.” in that. ”
Ryan also covered some of the biggest questions Season 2 would have to try to answer, including:
- What does it mean that Peter would be a night agent?
- Where is Peter going now?
- With Rose moving back to California, where does that leave Peter and Rose?
Of course, Matthew Quirk has plenty of other novels ripe for adaptations, but like the author explains on Twitter“they are mostly independent”.
That said, who’s to say that? other peculiar novels as Killer Hour, Directive, zero cold barrel, dead man switch, red warningeither insider threat it could not be modified or modified for an entire Shawn Ryan/Matthew Quirk Netflix universe.
You would like to see the agent of the night Is he back for a second outing on Netflix? Let us know in the comments below.
