Changes are on the horizon in the second season of Showtime’s hit espionage thriller, The Agency. The show abandons its slow approach to storylines and relationships, as the foundation laid throughout the first season supports a faster and tighter pace. “It doesn’t let up right from the first episode of season two. It ratchets through the 10 episodes,” series star and executive producer Michael Fassbender (Martian) told The Hollywood Reporter while previewing the second season that enters production next month. “Everything that’s introduced in the first season just tightens now. I’m glad that the audience responded to the first season because it is a bit of a slow burn, and you’re sort of introduced to these characters and each of their different stories, and then things start ramping up.” One of the storylines that tightens in the season is between covert CIA agent Martian and his mentor Henry (Jeffrey Wright) as the latter starts to see some odd things about Martian that he’d ignored. Season 2 finds them “starting to become enemies, and it’s an interesting dynamic that’s going to develop,” teased Fassbender. Wright added Henry’s perspective, saying:
“Ultimately the veil at the end of the first season drops from Henry’s face, and all of this disloyalty and all of the conflicted things that blind him to what’s actually going on begin to fall away.”
Henry and Martian’s Relationship Changes In ‘The Agency’ Season 2
Henry has been Martian’s biggest champion as a mentor, friend, and Director of Operations at London Station. “Over the course of the first season, there’s this relationship, this bond between the two of them that’s been established. There’s a mutual respect and there’s this reciprocal need and trust, but you begin to see a bit of doubt creep in from Henry’s perspective. As we go on, we’ll begin to explore whether that crack widens and what is revealed inside should be fun,” said Wright of what’s coming up for his character. It hurts even more when Martian betrays Henry, and might justify the change they’re about to experience. “You have trained me in a way; you’ve taken me under your wing back in the day, so there is that deep betrayal then that’s going to be experienced,” teased Fassbender. How they deal with everything is anyone’s guess, but Season 2 will dive into everything.
A fresh take on the critically acclaimed hit French drama Le Bureau des Legendes, the espionage thriller follows Martian (Michael Fassbender), a covert CIA agent, ordered to abandon his undercover life and return to London Station. When the love he left behind reappears, romance reignites. His career, his real identity and his mission are pitted against his heart; hurling them both into a deadly game of international intrigue and espionage. The Agency was the most streamed new series in Showtime’s history, with 5.1M global cross-platform viewers, and was renewed for a season two before Season 1 had premiered.
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Source: The Hollywood Reporter
