{"id":159739,"date":"2022-12-16T17:47:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T17:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-recruit-season-1-review\/"},"modified":"2022-12-16T17:47:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T17:47:50","slug":"the-recruit-season-1-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-recruit-season-1-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Recruit: Season 1 Review"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Recruit premieres globally on Netflix on Dec. 16.<\/em><\/p>\n
The most original thing going for Netflix’s new spy\/thriller, The Recruit, is its passion for gleefully thrashing its lead character, Owen Hendricks (Noah Centineo). Not exactly the conventional path for a show in this genre, yet it sorta works solely based on Centineo’s utter commitment to being that \u201cpoor guy\u201d who’s chronically in over his head all season long. He’s essentially a human Wile E. Coyote in a black suit. How much you’ll dig that schtick in The Recruit really depends on if you like your spy guys super competent and studly, or you’re ok with watching one make well-intentioned mistake after mistake.<\/p>\n
Hendricks is a fresh hire in the CIA’s General Counsel division in Langley, Virginia. He’s eager to please his CIA supervisor Walter Nyland (Vondie Curtis-Hall), and is an easy hazing target for his more seasoned, but mean-spirited colleagues, Agent Violet (Aarti Mann) and Agent Lester (Colton Dunn). Dumped with the grunt work of reading through the pile of \u201ccrazies\u201d mail that is 90% crackpot conspiracy theory missives from the public, Hendricks actually unearths one that reads like a legitimately serious letter from a female prisoner in Phoenix, Arizona. She wants to be released or she’s threatening to give up the black ops intel she knows. It prompts him to ask his perpetually sweaty and stressed General Counsel peer, Janus Ferber (Kristian Bruun), about the language in the letter that ends up being a cryptonym for something extremely serious. <\/p>\n