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Fans of Netflix’s hit action thriller The Night Agent have a date to mark on their calendars, as the show’s second season finally has an official release date.

The streaming giant revealed that season two will hit the platform on January 23rd, 2025 and also released a thrilling teaser trailer to whet the appetites of the show’s substantial fanbase. The short teaser showed FBI agent Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso) on the run for unknown reasons, which forces him to call the very Night Action telephone line in the White House that he manned in season one.

Netflix’s official synopsis reads: “Peter’s efforts to save the president in season one earn him an opportunity to become a night agent in season two. But, working in the secretive organisation of Night Action will propel Peter into a world where danger is everywhere and trust is in short supply.”

The show’s first season was a breakout hit on Netflix when it debuted in March 2023, becoming the second-most-watched streaming show of the year in the US. It stayed at the top of the Netflix Global Top 10 chart for four consecutive weeks and, to this day, it is ranked as the seventh most-watched English-language series in the Netflix library.

The second season’s slight delay has nothing to do with Netflix’s reticence to capitalise on The Night Agent’s success. After all, it was renewed for season two only days after season one was released, and a season three pickup was announced in October 2024, three months before the second season’s release. Season three will reportedly be shot in Istanbul and New York City. In truth, season two’s delay was simply caused by the writer and actor’s strikes of 2023.

Based on a Matthew Quirk novel, Shawn Ryan (The Shield, S.W.A.T., Timeless) created and ran the series. When asked by The Hollywood Reporter about why he wanted to adapt Quirk’s work to television, Ryan said, “I love the idea of an underdog. I love to watch kickass stuff as much as everyone else. But to me, it’s not as interesting to write the indestructible guy, the John Wicks of the world, the Jason Bournes that can take on 20 people at once.”

Ryan continued, “I like the idea of an underdog, someone who is the least important person in a very important place, in this case, a low-level FBI agent who works in a windowless room in the basement of the White House. Everyone around him is more important than him. He stumbles onto this thing, and he’s suddenly, like in classic Hitchcock movies, somebody who is an ordinary person thrust into an extraordinary situation.”