The Agency: Truth Will Set You Free

January 10, 2025 2:58 PM - Season 1, Episode 8

A botched recruitment, a decoded play, and a promising lead shake things up. Tensions rise as stakes are clarified and moral dilemmas surface. Meanwhile, an unexpected revelation threatens to change everything.
posted by extramundane (3 comments total)

This episode was unhinged... My fav detail was Bosko and Henry paying Martian no mind when they were dealing with the Chinese security guy.

Is Martian being held by another group in all his narration scenes? Or by his own agency (because they can't trust him after he lied and screwed up so badly)? His face looks busted and he's hooked up to a lie detector machine. It didn't look like the Chinese security guy beat him up that badly.
posted by extramundane at 9:46 PM on January 10

I'm enjoying this show quite a bit but little bits of the story are too outlandish to be plausible. OTOH some outlandish details are great. I love how the secretary the CIA forced into helping them ends up doing absolutely nothing useful for them and dies for it. Very grim!

Also I'm in love with Jodie Turner-Smith, her costumes, her performances. I love that Sami isn't just doing what the CIA dude tells her to do. Particularly last episode when she just totally reads out the deal on offer: "you made it so I need protection, and to get protection I have to compromise my life's work?"

Shame about Michael Fassbinder though. I mean he is the show, maybe a Daniel Craig type just wouldn't work. Instead we get this guy with all the charisma of a wet cardboard box.
posted by Nelson at 1:34 PM on January 15

Honestly at this point I wonder if all of this is a story that Martian is feeding to whomever is holding him...
posted by extramundane at 12:42 PM on January 16