Noah Centineo Returns as a CIA Lawyer Taking on a New Spy Mission in South Korea in Season 2 of Netflix's Hit Series "The Recruit" — Watch the Trailer!
Noah Centineo travels to South Korea for a new action-packed season of Netflix's hit spy series, featuring Nathan Fillion and Teo Yoo.
Call us crazy, but Noah Centineo is surprisingly really good in The Recruit, the Netflix original series about a CIA lawyer who is pulled into the extremely deadly life of espionage. Centineo, for a moment there, was the flavor of the month after starring in the hugely successful To All the Boys film series for Netflix, playing one of the heartthrobs. From there, he tried to launch a movie career, but it didn’t go so well. He appeared in box office flops like the Charlie's Angels reboot and as Atom Smasher in the Dwayne Johnson-led DC superhero misfire Black Adam.
You might have thought that with Noah Centineo reuniting with Netflix for a standard spy action series, it felt like heading back home with your tail between your legs. But ha! The joke is on you, because the show became a huge success on the Netflix platform. And in our humble opinion, Centineo has never been better. It seems his journey from heartthrob to potential superhero to now just a normal agent has matured him in a way that he’s become a pretty decent actor, not just a face.
In Season 2 of The Recruit, Noah Centineo's CIA lawyer character, Owen Hendricks, finds himself back on assignment, this time jetting off to South Korea for a covert CIA operation to prevent an international war from erupting. The catch? Owen only has 48 hours to catch the bad guys, save the day, and if time permits, catch up on his K-pop and Korean BBQ. What could go wrong? It's "spy meets Seoul"!
Mixing a blend of humor with action and intrigue, The Recruit fits nicely with fans of spy hits like 24, Killing Eve, and Burn Notice. But the show is also the latest example of Netflix's strategy to fill up their slate with similar spy shows, following the success of The Night Agent and their most recent hit, Black Doves.
Produced by Bourne Identity helmer Doug Liman along with the show's creator and showrunner Alexi Hawley, creator of the ABC cop show The Rookie, Season 2 adds special guests to the cast including Nathan Fillion (speaking of The Rookie), James Purefoy (The Following), Maddie Hasson (Malignant), and Past Lives actor Teo Yoo as a hotshot Korean agent forced to work alongside Centineo's Owen Hendricks, while returning cast members include Colton Dunn, Fivel Stewart, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Aarti Mann, Kaylah Zander, and Kristian Bruun.
The Recruit returns with its second season starting on Jan. 30, only on Netflix. Watch the trailer, above.
Just a refresher, below is the trailer for the first season of The Recruit:
