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Dec 16, 2022 · The Recruit: Season 1 Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Mini Anthikad-Chhibber The Hindu. The Netflix show, starring a charming Noah Centineo, is populated with a roster of...
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- The Recruit: Season 1 | Rotten Tomatoes
68% Tomatometer 31 Reviews 84% Audience Score 500+ Ratings A...
- The Recruit | Rotten Tomatoes
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By Tara Bennett
Posted: Dec 16, 2022 3:30 pm
The Recruit premieres globally on Netflix on Dec. 16.
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 “poor guy” 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.
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 “crazies” 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.
Reporting the finding to Nyland gets Hendricks the assignment to follow up on the letter and the sender, which thrusts the green lawyer into the field with essentially no help, hostile people trying to hurt him at every location, and everyone being one step ahead of him. His only ally – and that’s really questionable – is that prisoner, Max Meladze (Laura Haddock). She sees Henricks as a malleable asset through which she can demand, and threaten blackmail, for her release. Luckily, as naive as Owen may be, he’s not stupid and he manages to temper her threats by leveraging her need of him to gain her freedom, so an uneasy alliance is formed.
The Recruit is a solid vehicle for Noah Centineo’s leading man talents. It certainly has no problem putting his character through his paces, which makes him less suave and more sympathetic than just about all of his big and small screen CIA spy peers. It does require some patience in its dense story and watching Centineo constantly being put throug...
Dec 16, 2022 · Dec 16, 2022 12:01am PT. Noah Centineo’s ‘The Recruit’ Is a Semi-Clever Thriller Without Punch: TV Review. By Daniel D'Addario. PHILIPPE BOSSÉ/NETFLIX. Noah Centineo is, perhaps, the...
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Dec 16, 2022 · ‘The Recruit’ Review: Noah Centineo’s Spy Series Is More Netflix Filler. The actor stars as a newbie CIA lawyer who gets sucked into a global web of criminal intrigue when a former asset...
With Noah Centineo, Fivel Stewart, Aarti Mann, Colton Dunn. Follows a lawyer at the CIA who gets entangled in dangerous international power politics when a former asset threatens to expose the nature of her long-term relationship with the agency.
