A new Amazon series is the perfect action thriller stand-in to watch in the wait for The Night Agent season 2. Prime Video has enough high-achieving, critically acclaimed action thrillers to call itself the leading streaming service of the genre – though Netflix has proven to be a fierce competitor with the March 2023 release of its hugely successful The Night Agent series. Season 1 of the series accounted for 812 million hours viewed from January to June 2023 (via Netflix), and because of its striking reception, Netflix quickly greenlit The Night Agent season 2 a mere week after its debut.
As speedily as the confirmation for The Night Agent season 2 was, the wait for FBI agent Peter Sutherland’s next big mission still feels rather long. Not just the anticipation for the story to continue but early development delays because of the Writers Guild of America strikes have made The Night Agent’s action thriller fans even more stir-crazy for season 2. Netflix has yet to reveal season 2’s release date, though, in the meantime, fans can venture over to Prime Video to watch a series that is sure to hold them over until The Night Agent returns.
Amazon’s Mr & Mrs Smith Is A Great New Spy Show To Watch Before The Night Agent Season 2
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Mr. & Mrs. Smith is a TV adaptation of the 2005 film starring Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. Donald Glover and Maya Erskine take on the lead roles for the series as spies who are placed in an arranged marriage for an undercover mission only to develop real feelings for each another.
Until The Night Agent season 2 eventually debuts, Prime Video’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith series is an appreciable show replacement to bide one’s time with. The Mr. & Mrs. Smith series is a compelling spy thriller similarly led by a crowd-pleasing dynamic duo to rival The Night Agent’s Peter (Gabriel Basso) and Rose Larkin (Luciane Buchanan). The Night Agent fans will recognize a comparable relationship arc that grows between Donald Glover’s John and Maya Erskine’s Jane as they contend with dangerous obstacles and near-death experiences together in their missions for the spy organization known as Hihi.
Even more so, followers of The Night Agent will delight in Mr. & Mrs. Smith’s gripping plot twists and high-octane spy hijinks that get more intense as the episodes go by and culminate in an explosive season finale. Mr. & Mrs. Smith does lean into comedy throughout its storyline, which is quite different from The Night Agent’s tone. However, the Prime Video show uses humor to its advantage and still became a critically acclaimed series in the action thriller genre, as Mr. & Mrs. Smith has topped streaming charts and earned a prominent Tomatometer score of 90% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Netflix Still Can’t Beat Amazon When It Comes To Hit Action Thriller Shows
Mr. & Mrs. Smith joins a slew of powerhouse action thrillers offered by Prime Video. Among its ranks are beloved series like Reacher, The Boys, and Jack Ryan, making it fairly difficult for Netflix to beat Prime Video as the leading streaming service for action thrillers. More often than Netflix’s offerings, Prime Video’s action thrillers generate overwhelmingly positive critical reception and massive followings that generate incredible viewership numbers.
Prime Video Action Thriller | No. Of Seasons | Avg. Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer Score |
|---|---|---|
Reacher | 2 | 95% |
The Boys | 4 | 93% |
Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan | 4 | 77% |
15 Best Action Thriller TV Shows, Ranked
Action thriller TV shows are an exciting and popular television genre with several standouts that are truly worth the investment.
Along with The Night Agent, Netflix finds great success with series such as The Recruit, but similar action thrillers are few and far between and plagued with cancellation fears. There’s a chance that The Night Agent’s unprecedented success in the genre may increase the streaming platform’s likelihood to pursue more action thriller series in the future and stick with them through multiple series. In any event, fans of The Night Agent and action thrillers, in general, can find several similar fixes at Prime Video.
The Night Agent
The Night Agent is a Netflix original series based on the novel by Matthew Quirk. The show centers on a young entry-level FBI agent named Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso) who handles a hotline in the basement of the White House that never rings. When the phone finally does, Peter finds himself embroiled in a dangerous conspiracy that climbs all the way to the top.
- Cast
- Gabriel Basso , Luciane Buchanan , Hong Chau , Sarah Desjardins , Fola Evans-Akingbola , Eve Harlow , Enrique Murciano , Phoenix Raei , DB Woodside
- Release Date
- March 23, 2023
- Seasons
- 1
- Streaming Service(s)
- Netflix
- Writers
- Corey Deshon , Matthew Quirk
- Directors
- Adam Arkin , Guy Ferland , Seth Gordon , Ramaa Mosley , Millicent Shelton
- Showrunner
- Shawn Ryan
