Paramount+’s Gripping Spy Thriller Is So Good, It Shot Straight to #1



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Any fan who loads up Paramount+ will be bombarded with a mountain of Taylor Sheridan-produced content, such as The Madison (starring Kurt Russell) and Marshals (starring Luke Grimes). Sheridan has become a Godfather figure of Paramount+ content before he leaves the studio for good at the end of 2028, but there are plenty of other popular titles to watch, completely unrelated to the Yellowstone scribe. One of the most popular movies on Paramount+ at the time of writing is Top Gun: Maverick, the 2022 legacy sequel starring Tom Cruise and Miles Teller. Steven Spielberg, director of Disclosure Day, even went as far as to say he felt like Top Gun: Maverick saved Hollywood after the film grossed over $1.4 billion at the global box office.

Paramount+ has become a big enough streaming service — over 75 million subscribers — that it must have enough content to please fans of all genres. For fans of the morally ambiguous spy thriller, Paramount presents The Agency, which features big stars like Michael Fassbender and Jeffrey Wright. The first season of The Agency premiered back at the end of 2024 alongside the first season of Landman, but it still went toe-to-toe with Sheridan’s oil drama Goliath at the top of streaming charts. It took some time, but Paramount finally brought back The Agency over the weekend, albeit in quite a different fashion than when the show first debuted for Season 1. New episodes of The Agency Season 1 were released weekly, but Paramount dropped all 10 installments of The Agency Season 2 on Sunday, alongside the premiere of HBO’s House of the Dragon. This new method has worked out for Paramount, though, as The Agency is already climbing streaming charts.



















Collider Exclusive · James Bond Personality Quiz
Which James Bond Actor Are You Most Like?
Connery · Moore · Dalton · Brosnan · Lazenby · Craig

Six actors. Six completely different visions of the same man — dangerous, charming, complicated, and almost certainly wearing a very good suit. Only one of them shares your particular way of moving through the world. Eight questions will figure out which Bond you really are.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Connery

😄Moore

🎭Dalton

Brosnan

🤵Lazenby

💠Craig

01

How do you carry yourself when you walk into a room?
Bond is always the most interesting person in the room. The question is how he makes you feel it.






02

How do you handle a dangerous situation?
Every Bond faces it differently. What does your version look like?






03

How do you charm someone you need on your side?
Bond always gets what he needs. The method varies considerably.






04

How do you handle your emotions on the job?
Every Bond deals with this differently. Most of them not particularly well.






05

How would your colleagues describe your working style?
MI6 has opinions about all of its 00s. What are theirs about you?






06

How do you feel about operating within the rules?
The licence to kill comes with terms and conditions. Not everyone reads them.






07

What is your relationship with love?
Every Bond has a different answer. None of them have found it easy.






08

When the mission is over, how do you want to be remembered?
The name is Bond. The rest is entirely up to the man behind it.






The Name Has Been Determined
Your Bond Is…

Six actors. One role. Your answers point to the Bond who shares your presence, your method, and your particular way of carrying the weight of being the most dangerous person in the room.


Dr. No — You Only Live Twice · 1962–1967

Sean Connery

You are the original — and you carry that fact without needing to announce it. There is an authority in the way you occupy a room that others spend careers trying to replicate.

  • You don’t explain yourself, justify yourself, or soften yourself for anyone’s comfort. The confidence is structural, not performed.
  • Connery’s Bond established everything — the tone, the danger, the cool — because Connery himself had the innate presence to make something that had never existed feel inevitable.
  • You share that quality: the sense that you were always going to end up exactly here, doing exactly this.
  • The name is Bond. In your case, it always was.


Live and Let Die — A View to a Kill · 1973–1985

Roger Moore

You understand something that more serious people miss: that wit is its own form of intelligence, and that making people laugh is not a retreat from danger but a way of mastering it.

  • Moore’s Bond is underrated precisely because the effortlessness looks easy — and effortlessness is the hardest thing to manufacture.
  • You have the same quality: a lightness that disarms people before they realise how sharp you actually are.
  • The raised eyebrow, the perfectly timed quip, the refusal to be rattled — these are not affectations. They are a philosophy about how to move through a world that would like to take itself too seriously.
  • You have never let it.


The Living Daylights · Licence to Kill · 1987–1989

Timothy Dalton

You took the role seriously when everyone wanted you to coast — and that refusal to take the easy version of anything is the most defining thing about you.

  • Dalton’s Bond has genuine moral weight: he feels the cost of what he does, he has lines he won’t cross, and he is not interested in the version of himself that pretends otherwise.
  • You share that intensity. You push harder than the situation technically requires, because you have a standard and you hold yourself to it.
  • He was ahead of his time — the Bond the franchise wasn’t quite ready for yet, arriving exactly when he was meant to.
  • You know what that feels like.


GoldenEye — Die Another Day · 1995–2002

Pierce Brosnan

You are the complete package — and you know it, which is part of what makes you so effective and occasionally so infuriating to the people around you.

  • Brosnan arrived at the role looking exactly like Bond was supposed to look, and he delivered on that expectation with a professionalism that made it seem effortless.
  • You have the same quality: a smooth competence, a charm that operates like a precision instrument, and the ability to make even difficult things look like they weren’t.
  • His era was the most commercially successful in the franchise’s history. There is a reason for that.
  • The reason is that some people simply fit their moment perfectly. You are one of those people.


On Her Majesty’s Secret Service · 1969

George Lazenby

You stepped into something enormous with less preparation than anyone around you thought was sufficient — and you delivered something genuine anyway, which is the more impressive achievement.

  • Lazenby’s single outing is, by many measures, one of the finest Bond films ever made — and he is not a small part of why.
  • You share his quality of raw authenticity: less polished than the alternatives, more honest for it, capable of something real that technique alone can’t produce.
  • He was underestimated, and then he wasn’t, and then history caught up with him.
  • You are the kind of person history catches up with. Give it time.


Casino Royale — No Time to Die · 2006–2021

Daniel Craig

You stripped everything back and found what was underneath — and what was underneath was harder, more honest, and more human than anyone expected.

  • Craig’s Bond is the franchise’s most psychologically complete: a man doing a brutal job, carrying its costs imperfectly, capable of love and loss in ways that can’t be dismissed.
  • You share that depth. You don’t hide behind the role or the charm or the suit — you let the work show what it actually costs.
  • He was controversial from the moment he was announced and definitive by the time he was finished. The sceptics became the believers.
  • That arc — of being underestimated and then undeniable — is one you know intimately.

Is ‘The Agency’ Getting a Season 3?

At the time of writing on June 22, Paramount has yet to decide the fate of The Agency beyond Season 2. This decision will depend on a few factors, such as whether the creative team behind the show, including writers John-Henry and Jez Butterworth, is interested in doing another season. If the duo, along with the cast, have the desire to do another season, Paramount will then have to weigh the cost of a potential Season 3 vs. the projected viewership based on the first two seasons. The show is the perfect watch for Mindhunter fans, who enjoy a slower and more methodical chase for dangerous criminals.

Check out the first two seasons of The Agency on Paramount Plus and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of the show.


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Release Date

December 1, 2024

Network

Paramount+ with Showtime

Showrunner

Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth


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