11 great spy thriller TV shows to watch right now
Spy shows are having a moment. The Night Agent came out of nowhere last month to become one of Netflix’s biggest hits ever, hot on the heels of The Recruit, another spy show that quickly earned itself a second season. AndCitadel, Amazon Prime Video’s lavishly expensive attempt to create an international James Bond-style espionage action franchise from scratch, will become a hit out of financial necessity.
Amid all this spyjinx, you might find yourself wanting to go deeper into the TV spy genre. You want to watch secret agents carry out thrilling missions using all the tools at their disposal, from computer hacking to hand-to-hand combat. Because there’s nothing like a globetrotting, high-stakes thriller about people who work for an alphabet agency.
This highly classified list features the 11 best spy TV shows you may not have seen before. You don’t need a recommendation to watch classics like The Americans or Alias — you know all about them already. Instead, I’m highlighting international series and domestic hits you may have missed. This list will self-destruct after you read it, so get streaming right away.
If you’re looking for a realistic spy show, The Bureau is practically a documentary. This French series about the inner workings of the DGSE — France’s version of the CIA — is TV’s most emotionally and narratively grounded spy series this side of The Americans.
Amélie’s Mathieu Kassovitz stars as intelligence officer Guillaume Debailly, who returns home to Paris after six years undercover in Syria. He’s having a hard time readjusting to his real life, which gets even more complicated when Nadia (Zineb Triki), his Syrian girlfriend who only knows him as his alias, joins him in Paris. Meanwhile, he’s trying to
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