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The Night Agent snuck its way to the top of Netflix’s English-language TV charts for the week of March 20.

SPOILER WARNING: The following reveals major plot points from Season 1 of Netflix’s The Night Agent.

SPOILER ALERT: The series includes details about new Netflix series The Night Agent, based on the bestselling novel by Matthew Quirk.

dropped on Netflix on Thursday, featuring a cast led by Gabriel Basso and Oscar-nominated actress Hong Chau.The 10-episode action thriller is based on a novel by Matthew Quirk and follows low-level FBI Agent Peter Sutherland (Basso), who works in the basement of the White House, manning a phone that never rings — until the night that it does, when he suddenly receives a call from a civilian, Rose (Luciane Buchanan), seeking help. The call propels Peter into a fast-moving and dangerous conspiracy that ultimately leads to the Oval Office.The series hails from creator/showrunner Shawn Ryan (), and is executive produced by Seth Gordon, Marney Hochman, Jamie Vanderbilt, William Sherak, Paul Neinstein, Nicole Toussou and David Beaubaire.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic Hong Chau — the Oscar-nominated actor, who’s appeared in “The Whale,” “The Menu,” and “Downsizing” — is an interesting element on Netflix’s new series “The Night Agent,” and a revealing one. To cast Chau, a gifted and hardworking performer who’s been elevating projects for years, is to announce a certain ambition. Here, she’s playing the determined White House Chief of Staff, a figure close to the heart of various intrigues on a political thriller with schlock in its DNA. And yet she does it so elegantly, so excellently that she elevates the whole thing. So it is with “The Night Agent,” created by Shawn Ryan of “The Shield,” and based on a novel by Matthew Quirk. Here, Gabriel Basso (who played the future U.S. Senator J.D. Vance in the film “Hillbilly Elegy”) stars as Peter Sutherland, whose employment at the FBI is at such a low level that an offer to stand by and monitor a rarely used emergency hotline on the night shift comes to feel attractive. Wouldn’t you know it — one evening, that phone rings, and the caller is a tech founder who has found herself drawn into a drama she barely understands when her aunt and uncle were killed. Peter and Rose (Luciane Buchanan), his unlucky protectee, must piece together what happened on the fly, as they attempt to keep her safe and, just maybe, redeem Peter’s unfortunate family history of perfidy.

The Night Agent is an action thriller series heading to Netflix this month.Created by Shawn Ryan (The Shield) and adapted from the novel of the same name by Matthew Quirk, the series follows FBI agent Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso) who is thrown into a vast conspiracy involving a Russian mole at the highest levels of the US government.A synopsis reads: “The Night Agent is a sophisticated, character-based, action-thriller centring on a low level FBI agent who works in the basement of the White House, manning a phone that never rings – until the night it does, propelling him into a fast moving and dangerous conspiracy that ultimately leads all the way to the Oval Office.”The series is directed by Seth Gordon (Horrible Bosses) and Millicent Shelton, with the former also serving as an executive producer.The show spans 10 episodes in the opening season, which is released on Thursday March 23 on Netflix at 7am GMT in the UK.Netflix released a trailer for the series earlier this month – check it out above.Alongside Basso (The Big C), the show’s cast includes Luciane Buchanan, Hong Chau, D.B.

Netflix thriller “The Night Agent.” “I don’t think I’ve ever played a character like this as an adult,” Basso, 28, told The Post.“I was a child actor, really [before]. So, all I had to do was be a kid.

BreAnna Bell Fans of Matthew Quirk’s novel “The Night Agent” might be surprised to see a few creative changes in Shawn Ryan’s series adaptation on Netflix. For instance, not only is there the addition of several new players — including Eve Harlow, who portrays Ellen, an opposing cutthroat spy — but Ryan, who serves as showrunner and executive producer, said Rose (Lucianne Buchanan) and Peter’s (Gabriel Basso) love story will be deeply explored throughout the political thriller’s 10 episodes. The series follows FBI agent Peter Sutherland, who while working in the basement of the White House monitoring an emergency line that rarely rings, answers a call that plunges him into a deadly conspiracy involving a mole in America’s executive mansion.

An updated trailer for the upcoming thriller series “The Night Agent,” starring Gabriel Basso and Luciane Buchanan, has been made available on Netflix.

EXCLUSIVE: Covert Affairs alumna Kari Matchett is set for a heavily recurring role in Netflix’s political conspiracy thriller series The Night Agent, based on Matthew McQuirk’s bestseller. Created by Shawn Ryan, based on the novel, The Night Agent is a sophisticated, character-based, action-thriller centering on a low-level FBI agent who works in the basement of the White House, manning a phone that never rings — until the night that it does, propelling him into a fast moving and dangerous conspiracy that ultimately leads all the way to the Oval Office. Matchett will portray the President. Matchett starred for five seasons on USA Network’s Covert Affairs. Her most recent TV credits include recurring roles on A Million Little Things, Supergirl and Charmed. She’s repped by The Characters Talent Agency and Alchemy Entertainment.

Netflix has set a March 23 premiere date for action thriller The Night Agent and released a slew of first-look images. See them below and watch a teaser above.

Rick Tuber, a TV and film editor who won an Emmy and an ACE Eddie Award for his work on NBC’s classic medical drama ER, died January 7 of a heart attack at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 69.

S.W.A.T is coming back for a sixth season.

EXCLUSIVE: Hong Chau (Downsizing, Watchmen), DB Woodside (Lucifer, 24), Fola Evans-Akingbola (UK’s Call My Agent, Black Mirror), Eve Harlow (NeXT, The 100), Phoenix Raei (Clickbait, Stateless), Enrique Murciano (Bloodline, Father of the Bride 2) and Sarah Desjardins (Yellowjackets, Riverdale), have been cast as series regulars opposite leads Gabriel Basso and Luciane Buchanan in The Night Agent, Netflix’s political conspiracy thriller series created by Shawn Ryan based on author Matthew Quirk’s 2019 New York Times bestseller.

TV and film screenwriter and producer Aaron Rahsaan Thomas has used his time in the business entertaining audiences while bridging gaps between disparate groups. As the co-creator and former showrunner for the reboot of the ongoing CBS police drama S.W.A.T., Aaron provides a new perspective on working as a Black showrunner with a series focused on the lives of the police. Developed by Aaron Rahsaan Thomas and Shawn Ryan, S.W.A.T.

Shawn Ryan is adapting for television the 2020 novel The Night Agent by Matthew Quirk. The Shield creator revealed the project last night as part of a series of tweets about some the favorite books he read in 2020.