The Night Agent Review: Lost Potential for a “Terminal List” wannabe

You know, there comes a show that has great potential to be a good show, but then the writers and producers decide to turn it into woke leftist attacks on conservatives and toxic feminist dogma against male characters.

Basically, the entire plot of Netflix’s The Night Agent boils down to men are incomplete, conservatives are unhinged fanatics, and anti-Trump “Orange Man Bad” propaganda.

 

The Night Agent could have been a good story about a Deep State conspiracy and how a regular FBI agent realized how corrupt and totalitarian the Federal Government has become.

 

Instead, it becomes the latest casualty of leftist propaganda in order to demonize men, conservatives and other Trump supporters.

 

As such, everything that the Chris Pratt-led “The Terminal List” gets right “The Night Agent” gets wrong.

 

The story begins with Peter Sutherland (played by Hillbilly Elegy’s Gabriel Basso), a young FBI agent who gets caught up in a conspiracy.

 

Sutherland stops a terrorist attack as he’s traveling on the D.C. subway, saving dozens of lives (with only one death as a result), but is then blamed for the attack in the first place. Just like how Richard Jewell was blamed for the Centennial Park Bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

 

Naturally, but predictably, the show portrays conservatives as conspiracy nut jobs who

 

Sutherland doesn’t have a lot of wiggle room because the FBI hates him because his dad was an FBI agent who was killed before he could stand trial on corruption and espionage charges.

 

Now, a normal person wouldn’t work for an organization that attacked his parents’ character and integrity, but Sutherland had joined the FBI because he wanted to prove himself.

 

Had this show actually been good, Sutherland could have learned that his dad was murdered by the Deep State after he became a whistleblower exposing the FBI’s dark secrets as banana republic foot soldiers. Or after he uncovered evidence that the FBI was actively working to undermine the positive President Donald Trump-like character who is portrayed as a good man and America First-MAGA conservative.

 

Conveniently, there’s also no evidence brought forth to clear Peter’s good name, and any information was covered up.

Because apparently there were no security cameras on the D.C. subway and surrounding area, which the FBI could have easily determined who the bomber was. Or at the very least prove that Sutherland was innocent.

 

Peter is then demoted and forced to work in the White House basement on the night shift, watching a phone that is never supposed to ring unless it’s a very dangerous emergency.

 

If this show adopted the Deep State conspiracy storyline, it could have revealed that the FBI and the Deep State itself hid the security footage and refused to release it. Just like they did surrounding over 13,000 hours of security footage from the January 6 Capitol Riot (because it proved it wasn’t an insurrection) and the attempted DC Park Pipe Bomber.

 

Gradually, it’s revealed in The Night Agent that the Vice President, portrayed as an evil Trump-like character, is the main bad guy out to assassinate the female President so that he can seize power.

 

Also, all of the women in this show are toxic female characters because leftists in Hollywood and Netflix (streaming services) because that men want women who constantly and consistently demean them and treat them like garbage. A tell-take sign that the writers and producers have a negative view of conservative men and conservative women, as well as traditional family values and traditional marriage.

 

Seriously, none of these female characters are likable or relatable.

 

Finally, the show could have ended with Peter throwing away his FBI badge in the style of “High Noon,” rejecting the organization that rejected him and worked against the American people