To be fair, IMO this is one of their better original series in some time—or at least of the shows geared toward a wide audience.

I had finally crossed off the last thing on my list of Netflix exclusives (the Luther movie) that I needed to watch before I would cancel my 10+ year subscription. Then I stumbled onto the RT review of Night Agent and decided to give it a shot. Loved it.

I still think all of the bad things about Netflix that I did before watching it—the things that the "Netflix is dying" crowd tend to parrot. But if I could get even just one property a month that I thought was as well-made as Night Agent, I would probably stick around.

>with perfect pacing

At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, I think it was one of the best-paced shows I've watched in a long time. Never felt like there was pointless filler added in, never lulled too long, and they never did that thing where they introduce some potential side tangent and then don't revisit it for another 8 episodes. Just a consistently-moving, easy-to-watch series.

Man do I miss mid-90s/early-2000s Fox TV. Millennium, X-Files, Sliders, MANTIS, Dark Angel, Firefly, and probably many more I can't remember.

You is an interesting phenomenon because IMO it has been getting objectively worse each season, but somehow I can't stop watching it. Like, first season I gave into the buzz and was absolutely hooked, binged it in a day. Each subsequent season I've enjoyed less but still get through it within a day or two of its release. This last season I mostly just had it on in the background while doing other things. It's like a porno—you could probably watch just a few minutes from each episode and still understand the overarching story.

> Yeah, I really liked Lincoln’s performance, in particular his interactions with John Bernthal’s character.

That entire opening scene of the series is phenomenal. The pilot was so good, and IMO could even stand alone as a great zombie movie.