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Shows that feel likeThe Night Agent (2023–)

Brought together by a midnight phone call, an FBI agent and a cybersecurity expert must unravel an ever-growing web of political conspiracies.

If you loved The Night Agent, the closest series we have are Shooter (2016), The Terminal List (2022) and American Gods (2017). All three share The Night Agent's contemplative and paranoid feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Timeless (2016).

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If The Night Agent hit the spot, these will too

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Shooter
2016–2018 · 3 seasons · USA Network
★ 7.5action & adventure · war & politics · drama

One framed man chasing a plot that reaches all the way to the presidency

The difference: Slower cable pacing and a grimmer, more military-minded hero

Bob Lee Swagger is an expert marksman living in exile who is coaxed back into action after learning of a plot to kill the president.

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The Terminal List
2022– · 2 seasons · Prime Video
★ 7.9action & adventure · dramaPrime Video

One man against a government conspiracy that took everything from him

The difference: Far bleaker — vengeance without a partner to lighten the load

Navy SEAL Commander James Reece turns to vengeance as he investigates the mysterious forces behind the murder of his entire platoon. Free from the military's command structure, Reece applies the lessons he's learned from nearly two decades of warfare to hunt down the people responsible.

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American Gods
2017–2021 · 3 seasons · STARZ
★ 7.6drama · mystery · sci-fi & fantasyPrime Video

An ordinary man pulled into a hidden war he barely understands

The difference: Dreamlike mythology over momentum — it wanders where this sprints

An ex-con becomes the traveling partner of a conman who turns out to be one of the older gods trying to recruit troops to battle the upstart deities. Based on Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel.

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Reacher
2022– · 4 seasons · Prime Video
★ 8action & adventure · crimePrime Video

A capable outsider unraveling corruption town by town, fists first

The difference: Standalone-case seasons — no long conspiracy arc to chase

Jack Reacher, a veteran military police investigator, has just recently entered civilian life. Reacher is a drifter, carrying no phone and the barest of essentials as he travels the country and explores the nation he once served.

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Taboo
2017 · 1 season · BBC One
★ 8.3drama · mysteryPeacock

One man versus a powerful institution that wants him quietly dead

The difference: Slow, mud-dark period brooding in place of modern momentum

Adventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa in 1814 along with fourteen stolen diamonds to seek vengeance after the death of his father.

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Outer Banks
2020–2026 · 5 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.5action & adventure · mysteryNetflix

Breathless chases and cliffhangers that make one more episode automatic

The difference: Teen treasure hunting — sunshine and romance replace political stakes

On a North Carolina island of haves and have-nots, John B and his tight-knit crew of friends find mystery and adventure while hunting for lost treasure.

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Bodyguard
2018 · 1 season · BBC One
★ 8crime · drama · war & politicsNetflix

Both keep coming back to the same thing: conspiracy

The difference: Easier on the momentum than The Night Agent

A troubled war veteran is assigned to protect a controversial politician who may be the target of a terror plot.

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Project Blue Book
2019–2020 · 2 seasons · History
★ 7.6sci-fi & fantasy · mystery · drama

Contemplative where it counts, twisty underneath

The difference: Takes it somewhere less kinetic than The Night Agent does

A chronicle of the true top secret U.S. Air Force-sponsored investigations into UFO-related phenomena in the 1950s and ’60s, known as “Project Blue Book”.

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Timeless
2016–2018 · 2 seasons · NBC
★ 7.6drama · action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasyPrime Video

A scrappy team racing a shadowy organization with America on the line

The difference: Time-travel hijinks keep it lighter — closer to adventure than thriller

A mysterious criminal steals a secret state-of-the-art time machine, intent on destroying America as we know it by changing the past. Our only hope is an unexpected team: a scientist, a soldier and a history professor, who must use the machine's prototype to travel back in time to critical events. While they must make every effort not to affect the past themselves, they must also stay one step ahead of this dangerous fugitive. But can this handpicked team uncover the mystery behind it all and end his destruction before it's too late?

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The Day of the Jackal
2024– · 1 season · Sky Atlantic
★ 8.1drama · action & adventure · mysteryPeacock

Cat-and-mouse tradecraft where every step of the hunt is laid bare

The difference: Told largely from the killer's side — cooler and far less comforting

An unrivalled and highly elusive lone assassin, the Jackal, makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. But following his latest kill, he meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer who starts to track down the Jackal in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe, leaving destruction in its wake.

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The Expanse
2015–2022 · 6 seasons · Syfy
★ 8.5drama · mystery · sci-fi & fantasyPrime Video

The same preoccupation in both: conspiracy

The difference: Sits closer to sci-fi & fantasy than The Night Agent does

A thriller set two hundred years in the future following the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.

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Sense8
2015–2018 · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 8.2sci-fi & fantasy · dramaNetflix

Both lean on paranoia more than on drama

One gunshot, one death, one moment out of time that irrevocably links eight minds in disparate parts of the world, putting them in each other's lives, each other's secrets, and in terrible danger. Ordinary people suddenly reborn as "Sensates."

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