The Night Agent Is the Perfect Action Thriller for Reacher Fans

Netflix has spent years trying to bottle the kind of lightning Amazon Prime struck with Reacher, and The Night Agent offers a similar fix with a very different tone. Season 3 premieres on Netflix on Feb. 19, 2026, and three days is more than enough time to catch up and see why the show has resonated.

The spy thriller became the seventh most popular English-language Netflix series of all time, pulling 98.2 million views in its first 91 days. Gabriel Basso plays Peter Sutherland, an FBI agent turned Night Action operative who spends most of his time getting the absolute hell kicked out of him while trying to untangle government conspiracies.

Where Reacher plays as pure wish fulfillment, Peter is vulnerable: not built like a tank, lacking all the answers, and carrying the fallout of a Season 2 mission that went wrong and killed his partner. That exposure — he was working as a double agent and remains paranoid about whom he can trust — makes the action feel genuinely dangerous because he might actually lose.

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