Responses to the show’s return were generally positive, but many drew comparisons to The Night Agent, a more successful spy thriller that returned for a second season just before The Recruit.

Neither show is directly produced by Netflix — "The Recruit" is produced by Lionsgate and "The Night Agent" is produced by Sony Pictures Television. So perhaps it was Lionsgate that Netflix didn ...

As far as the plot goes, The Night Agent is about a low-level FBI agent named Peter Sutherland who works nights in the basement of the White House, manning a phone line for undercover spies that ...