Adapted by Jez and John-Henry Butterworth from the popular French series Le Bureau des Legende, The Agency Season 1 delivers a less glamorous, more grounded version of the typical Hollywood blockbuster. It focuses not on James Bond-style spy adventures but on middle-aged bureaucrats in dreary offices in London, who, as they sip cold coffee from a styrofoam cup, make life-altering decisions that affect the lives of people a world away. The series follows the life of Brandon Colby, a CIA operative known as “Martian” to his colleagues. Michael Fassbender portrays the tormented double agent who has spent six years in deep cover in Ethiopia. After he is recalled to London, he is forced to shed his false identity as Paul Lewis, toss away his burner phone, and return to his old office in the heart of England. The problem with undercover assignments, as Martian discovers too late, is not the assumed identity but the fact that, after living a lie for so long, the lie starts to feel like the tru...