Not only was his dad a disgraced G-man, his son thinks unfairly, Peter just missed stopping a terrorist bombing in D.C., prompting online trolls to say he was actually involved. Gabriel Basso stars as FBI agent Peter Sutherland, whose career is in trouble. It's fun watching its hero weave through a landscape marked by betrayal, murder, kidnapping, terror attacks, hairpin twists, harebrained schemes and, of course, threats to the free world as we know it.

Adapted from Matthew Quirk's novel by series creator Shawn Ryan, who previously did 'The Shield,' among others, this bustling 10-parter gets better as it goes along. Naturally, I leapt to watch 'The Night Agent,' a new Netflix show about a young FBI agent who stumbles on a conspiracy more Byzantine than he could ever have imagined. Me, I'm hooked on thrillers whose heroes get caught up in treacherous political shenanigans - you know, the attempted military coup in 'Seven Days In May,' the assassination corporation in the 'Parallax View' or the many delirious intrigues that fueled 'Homeland.' Put a scenario like that in front of me, and even if it's badly done, I'll plow through the whole darn thing. JOHN POWERS, BYLINE: We all have certain kinds of stories we're suckers for. Our critic at large, John Powers, says that its story is like a cross between a paranoid thriller from the '70s and a twisty TV show like '24.' In the new Netflix series 'The Night Agent,' Gabriel Basso plays a young FBI agent stuck in a dead-end job who suddenly finds himself in the middle of a huge conspiracy.

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