- Title: The Night Agent – The Call
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This show is Viagra for conspiracy theorists. Not only do we get a conspiracy centered around a hero FBI Agent (Gabriel Basso) shunned after saving dozens of lives in a subway bombing forcing him into a desk job to wait for call of agents in trouble, but we also get the conspiracy around his father’s history with the bureau being railroaded for a crime he didn’t commit. And we haven’t yet gotten the conspiracy that actually drives the plot of the series when a young woman (Luciane Buchanan) learns her aunt and uncle were spies believing in a conspiracy so deep within the government that it reaches all the way to the White House.
Despite the paranoia running rampant in the first episode, the action and drama of “The Call” are well handled. Rose (Buchanan) barely survives the hit team set to kill her relatives, relying on the voice at the other end of the phone and then Peter (Basso) in person to keep her safe from multiple follow-up attacks. There’s plenty of tension with the pissing contest the White House Chief of Staff and the FBI Deputy Director get into in counter-ordering him around even before getting pulled into protecting Rose. Surely the killers think Rose knows something that could get in their way, the question is are you willing to stick around for 10 hours to find out? For me, that’s at least 8 hours too many but I’ll admit the show gets off to a solid start here with the call and Peter jumping in on the rescue of a woman who has no idea what world she’s walked into.