As streaming services have become more popular in recent years, each platform has had to release more content in different genres to meet the increased demand of subscribers. One of the genres that has consistently provided the most hits is the action/conspiracy thriller, with shows like Reacher on Prime Video and The Day of the Jackal on Peacock earning love from millions around the world. After canceling The Recruit (starring Noah Centineo) last year, Netflix has positioned The Night Agent as its most popular big-budget action series. The show is led by Gabriel Basso, who also starred opposite Idris Elba and Rebecca Ferguson in one of the biggest Netflix movies of 2025, A House of Dynamite.

The third season of The Night Agent premiered earlier this year, and Netflix didn’t waste any time renewing the show for Season 4 a few weeks after its conclusion. The show’s viewership has dwindled a bit since its first season, but this is likely why Netflix also confirmed that The Night Agent will end with its next season. Many fans would argue that the decrease in viewership in Season 3 was due to the absence of Luciane Buchanan as Rose Larkin, Peter Sutherland’s primary love interest. Netflix has confirmed that Buchanan’s Rose Larkin will be back in Season 4, righting the show’s biggest flaw from Season 3. Collider’s Perri Nemiroff recently sat down with Buchanan to chat about her new movie, Evil Dead Burn, and she spoke about how the need to take different jobs led to her landing her role as Rose in The Night Agent in the first place: “I was like, ‘I need to pay rent.’ I know people in the industry, and I’d just call them and be like, ‘Do you need a driver or do you need this? I can be a script editor. I’ve never done that in my life, but I’ll give it a go.’ That’s very New Zealand, like, ‘I’ve never worked in lighting. I’ll give it a go,’ kind of thing. And that’s when The Night Agent audition came in, and I was like, ‘Okay.’ And then it happened.” Buchanan also spoke about what it was like to find out she was not coming back for Season 3, which she admits led to some “mixed feelings.” While she understood the decision, she admits that it’s still a hard hit for the ego to take, receiving the call that she wouldn’t be asked back, which came only two months after wrapping Season 2: “Well, first of all, they are the sweetest people. After Season 2, I got the call maybe two months afterwards. We had wrapped Season 2, and so I was like, ‘I’m renewing my lease for New York. We’re going to do Season 3 here.’ And then it was like, ‘We can’t find a way to bring your character back.’ It was such a mixed thing. I think ultimately it’s your ego that’s like, ‘Wait, was I bad? Is this character not worth diving into?’ So, that was the emotion at the time.”

Collider Exclusive · Action Hero Quiz
Which Action Hero Would Be
Your Perfect Partner?
Rambo · James Bond · Indiana Jones · John McClane · Ethan Hunt

Five legends. Five completely different ways of getting out alive — with style, with muscle, with charm, with luck, or with a plan so intricate it probably shouldn’t work. Ten questions will reveal which action hero was built to have your back.

Rambo
James Bond
Indiana Jones
John McClane
Ethan Hunt

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01
You’re dropped into a dangerous situation with no warning. What do you need most from a partner?
The first few seconds tell you everything about who belongs beside you.

ASomeone who already has three contingency plans running and is calmly working through all of them.
BSomeone who reads the terrain instinctively and knows exactly how to use it against the enemy.
CSomeone who keeps their nerve and their sense of humour when everything is falling apart.
DSomeone who knows the history of wherever we are and what we’re walking into.
ESomeone with the right contact, the right cover identity, and the right exit already arranged.

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02
You have to get somewhere dangerous, fast. How do you travel?
How you get there is half the mission.

AOn foot through terrain no one else would attempt — I move where vehicles can’t follow.
BOn a motorcycle, a cargo plane, or anything else that gets me there before I think too hard about it.
CIn something that belongs to someone else — borrowed, stolen, or improvised under fire.
DFirst class, with a cover identity and a gadget that does something I won’t explain until it’s needed.
EBy whatever means are available — I’ve driven, flown, and once arrived by camel. The destination matters, not the method.

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03
You’re pinned down and outnumbered. What does your ideal partner do?
This is when you find out what someone is really made of.

ADisappears into the environment, flanks them silently, and ends it before I’ve reloaded.
BCracks a one-liner, grabs a fire extinguisher or a chair, and improvises something that somehow works.
CProduces a gadget specifically designed for this exact scenario and uses it with infuriating precision.
DPulls out a whip, a pistol, and an archaeological insight that somehow gets us out alive.
ENeutralises the threat with maximum efficiency and minimum words — they were already three moves ahead.

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04
The mission is paused. You have one evening to decompress. What does your partner suggest?
Who someone is when the pressure drops is who they actually are.

AA bar with terrible lighting, cold beer, and absolutely no questions about feelings.
BThe finest restaurant in the city, a bottle of something expensive, and a conversation that is equal parts brilliant and exhausting.
CA local dig site, a museum after hours, or a long story about why that particular artefact matters to human civilisation.
DPizza. Bad TV. Falling asleep halfway through a movie neither of you were watching anyway.
EA debrief that turns into three hours of contingency planning that somehow becomes the most fun you’ve had all week.

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05
How do you prefer your partner to communicate mid-mission?
Good communication is the difference between partners and a liability.

APrecise and minimal — tell me what I need to know and nothing else. Every word has a cost.
BDeadpan and dry — keeping it light keeps me sharp, even when everything is on fire.
CEnthusiastic and slightly chaotic — but always with useful information buried somewhere in the noise.
DCalm and controlled through an earpiece, with a plan that covers every variable I haven’t thought of yet.
EBarely at all — silence is a language and they speak it fluently.

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06
Your enemy is powerful, well-resourced, and has the upper hand. How should your partner approach them?
The approach to the enemy defines the partnership.

AInfiltrate their inner circle, learn everything, and dismantle them from inside out before they know we’re there.
BStudy the historical pattern — every villain of this type has a weakness written somewhere in the past.
CGet them talking. The more they monologue, the more time I have to figure out how to beat them.
DGo through them. Directly. With as much force as the terrain allows.
EFind the one thing they haven’t accounted for — there’s always one thing — and make sure we’re holding it.

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07
Things go badly wrong and you’re captured. What do you trust your partner to do?
Who someone is when you need them most is the only thing that matters.

ACome in alone, quietly, and get me out before anyone knows they were there.
BHave already been working on the extraction since the moment I disappeared — the plan is already running.
CCome in loud, come in fast, and worry about the collateral damage later — I’d do the same for them.
DUse every resource, every contact, and bend every rule until I’m out — they don’t leave people behind.
ECharm their way in somehow, bluff through the hard part, and still manage to look good doing it.

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08
What does your ideal partner bring to the table that you couldn’t replace?
A great partner fills the gap you didn’t know you had.

ATechnology that shouldn’t exist yet and the training to use it under any conditions.
BSurvival instinct so refined it borders on supernatural — and the scars to prove it’s been tested.
CKnowledge of history, language, and culture that makes them invaluable in places where force is useless.
DThe ability to walk into any room in the world and immediately become the most trusted person in it.
EStubbornness that refuses to accept a situation is hopeless — and the improvisational skill to back it up.

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09
Every partnership has a cost. Which of these can you live with?
No one comes without baggage. The question is whether you can carry it together.

AA partner who never fully switches off — always watching exits, always calculating threats, even at dinner.
BA partner who gets the job done brilliantly but has the emotional availability of a locked filing cabinet.
CA partner who makes everything ten times more complicated than it needs to be — but who always comes through.
DA partner who gets personally attached to every relic, ruin, and artefact we encounter, which slows everything down.
EA partner who was not built for this and knows it — but shows up anyway, every time, without being asked.

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10
It’s the final moment. Everything is on the line. What do you need from your partner right now?
The last question is the most honest one.

AOne line. Absolutely dry. Delivered like the world isn’t ending. Then we move.
BNothing said at all — just a look that means we both already know what has to happen.
CA plan I don’t fully understand that somehow accounts for everything, delivered in thirty seconds flat.
DA piece of historical context that reframes the entire situation and tells us exactly what to do next.
ESomeone who steps forward instead of back — because that’s who they’ve always been.

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Your Partner Has Been Assigned
Your Perfect Partner Is…
Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.

Rambo
Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.

James Bond
Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.

Indiana Jones
Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.

John McClane
Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.

Ethan Hunt
Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.

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Being Cut From ‘The Night Agent’ Sent Luciane Buchanan Into Stress Mode

Continuing her conversation with Nemiroff, The Night Agent star Luciane Buchanan admits that she felt a sense of security after starring in two full seasons of the show in a lead role. However, as we all know, things in Hollywood can change fast, and finding out she was cut sent her into a worrying spiral:
“Also, if I’m being honest, financially, it was a tough time in the industry, so your brain goes into stress mode, like, ‘What is my life going to be like? Will there be work around the corner? I thought I was in this safe bubble of being a lead on the show.’ But I think it was a nice reminder that in this industry, specifically being an actor, so much is out of your hands. I mean, you should enjoy it, but at any moment, there are cancellations. Your character is written out. So, I think in a way it was a good lesson for me, and I’m grateful for it. That decision is above me, and I have no influence. But having the fans, I get a message every day about it. I’m like, ‘I can’t say anything.’ I mean, I can’t talk about that stuff. But I think personally, it was a mixture of emotions.”
Instead of pushing back against Netflix when she was cut, Buchanan took the decision in stride, and after seeing the fan outrage, Netflix made the right call to bring her back for the final season. Buchanan admitted at the end of her conversation that she isn’t the first woman who has been dealt a bad hand on a show like this. However, she ultimately acknowledges that it’s a decision that comes from higher up, and not one worth holding a grudge over. “I’ve watched a lot of women on the show have similar experiences because that question does come up for a lot of people, of, like, you were in it, and then you weren’t,” she explained.

“I don’t think it’s a question of whether they were bad or not. It’s just the way that they want to tell the story. And I’m like, ‘Why is it all the ladies come in?’ But I always want to lead with grace when it comes to this stuff. Because again, it’s a higher-up decision. It’s above me, and you just have to accept it,” she told Nemiroff. “And there’s no point sitting in that world of, like, what if, what if? Because it’s not the reality. So again, I will always be grateful for that show and appreciative of the makers of that show, because it changed my life. So, I can’t be too mad at that.” Check out the first three seasons of The Night Agent on Netflix and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Season 3.

Release Date

2023 – 2026-00-00

Network

Netflix

Directors

Adam Arkin, Guy Ferland, Millicent Shelton, Ramaa Mosley

Writers

Seth Fisher, Munis Rashid, Corey Deshon