Dreamboat Noah Centineo stars as Owen Hendricks, a lawyer who is newly-recruited by the CIA who becomes entangled in international politics and conflicts when an asset ( Max Meladze played by Laura Haddock) tried to expose her relationship to the agency, leaving Owen seriously out of his depth.
Max Meladze( Laura Haddock)/Popternative
Owen is a freshly graduated lawyer who has two roommates, out of whom one is a lawyer at a firm and his ex-girlfriend( Fivel Stewart as Hannah Copelan) while the other works at the treasury department. He lands a job at the CIA straight out of university. At just 24 years old, he suddenly finds himself thrown into a dangerous world of espionage and intrigue, which kicks into overdrive when a threatening letter is found from a former asset gone rogue.
Hannah Copelan and Owen at a party/RadioTimes
The story is swiftly paced with plenty of kickass action sequences that will thrill you to binge the series, it's no wonder the series became №1 streamed show just behind Stranger Things.
On every second day of his job, he is hazed to confront a politician threatening to reveal classified information to the press, resulting in a subpoena.
Lester and Violet/RadioTimes
The shithole attitude of his coworkers Big Bang Theory Alum, Aarti Mann as Owen’s work rival Violet and Colton Dunn as Owen’s office frenemy Lester force Owen to follow his graymail investigation to Yemen without a passport or inform the black site operation costing him his hand nail and being waterboarded to test his true intentions. Yikes, talk about a tough start to his job.
Owen’s boss Walter Nyland and Owen/Netflix
His supportive colleagues don’t miss any chance to embarrass him in front of Vondie Curtis-Hall as
Owen’s boss Walter Nyland.
The story progresses at a brisk pace to reveal various torture methods to Owen and he figures out ways to escape each time, every time more traumatised than the last. Oh vey, I feel for Owen as he risks everything to prove his worth and puts a lot of faith in Max who turns out to be, ah almost gave it away.
Watch the Netflix series to watch Owen’s story unfold and watch the trailer here.