Netflix announced huge news for fans of the popular thriller series The Night Agent. On Tuesday morning, the streamer explained that the series’ second season is scheduled to be released in the winter of 2025 and that third season is in the works, Comicbook.com reports. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the series will begin filming at the end of the year in Istanbul and then in New York at the beginning of 2025. Furthermore, the streamer added an X (formerly Twitter) post with a first look at the second season of the series. If anyone is interested in viewing it, it’s embedded below.
According to Comicbook.com, the creator of The Night Agent is Shawn Ryan (The Shield, S.W.A.T.), and the series’ producers include Sony Pictures Television. The series stars Gabriel Basso (The Big C, The Middle) as Peter Sutherland, an FBI agent who works at the White House as Night Action telephone operator. The second season will not follow any books. Specifically, the first season was based on the book The Night Agent, written by Matthew Quirk (The Five Hundred), who is also a co-producer for the series. In an interview with Comicbook, Ryan explained the ideas behind the second season’s new storyline and why each season will have its own contained story.
“When I pitched it to Netflix, I essentially said, ‘This is an ongoing show, but each season will be its own self-contained story. And then future seasons would have very few characters porting over from the previous season,'” Ryan said via Comicbook.com. “We’re not trying to keep seven or eight characters going throughout multiple seasons. We want to tell really impactful stories where things can change and change quickly. Where we don’t have to worry about maintaining the status quo from episode to episode. And I also pitched the idea that we’d be in a different world with different circumstances each season.”
Ryan continued via Comicbook.com, stating, “So one thing I will tell you about season two is it does not take place in the DC area, which is where season one took place. So, we’ll be in a different part of the world exploring different characters than we had in season one. And we’re determining who from season one might appear in season two. But essentially, we’re going to be telling a whole brand-new story, which is exciting and scary. And with the high bar that Season 1 set for audience expectations, we feel that pressure too. And so, we’re just going to do our best to tell a story that feels within The Night Agent universe, but that feels new, fresh, and exciting.”
The first season of The Night Agent is now available to stream on Netflix. As stated beforehand, the second season will be released in the winter of 2025.