It will be months, if not years, before we get the announcement of a new James Bond. Longer still to get another Bond movie. Argylle, although moderately entertaining, flopped. And the Mission Impossible franchise is seemingly coming to an explosive end with The Final Reckoning next May. But, thankfully, TV studios are churning out spy shows like they’ve been paid off by the CIA. And who doesn’t want to see Michael Fassbender, doing his best American accent, as a gruff CIA agent sneaking around the London streets after dark?

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Fassbender stars as Martian in The Agency, a Paramount /Showtime series based on French show Le Bureau des Légendes. The London set-show, which co-stars Richard Gere as CIA station chief Bosko and Jodie Turner-Smith as Martin’s mysterious love interest Sami, has all the trappings of a compelling espionage thriller. Martian has recently been pulled out of deep cover in Africa and summoned back to London, where the bureau is entangled in all sorts of missions, from the Ukraine to Iran. He’s being tailed and investigated by the CIA themselves, which is apparently standard, but Martian’s connection to Sami threatens to derail both of their careers. The first two episodes, which premiered on Nov. 29, introduce high-level intrigue courtesy of writers Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth and director Joe Wright, making........

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