I am already missing the brilliantly intense international spy thriller The Agency. After that cliffhanger of an ending (what a spy will do for love!) Season 2 can’t come fast enough. But on to this week. A pair of promising American series drop: Paradise and High Potential. If you’re a Nordic Noir fan look out for Wisting Season 5.

What I am most excited about this week, though, is Australian police drama Critical Incident, and Netflix series The Recruit Season 2.

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Wisting – Available now on Amazon Prime Video

Detective William Wisting, recovering from a severe injury, receives an anonymous letter referring to an old murder case. He teams up with Interpol agent Harriet Dunn, but suspects he’s being undermined by powerful forces within the police.

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Critical Incident – Available on ITV

Senior Constable Zilficar ‘Zil’ Ahmed pursues teenage suspect Dalia and in the chaos a bystander is critically injured; in the aftermath, guilt and public pressure consume Zil and his world comes crashing down

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The Recruit Season 2 – Netflix – 30 Jan

Season 2 sees CIA lawyer Owen Hendricks pulled into life-threatening espionage in South Korea only to realize the bigger threat just might be coming from inside the agency. The series picks up directly after Season 1’s shock ending.

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Paradise – Available on Hulu and Disney+

Twisty mystery thriller Paradise is now available to stream on Disney+ in the UK and on Hulu in the US. It follows the probe of the assassination of US President Cal Bradford (James Marsden) by his head of security, Oscar-nominated actor Sterling K Brown (American Fiction, Black Panther).

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High Potential – Available on Disney+

A single mother (Kaitlin Olson) with an exceptional mind is recruited to the LAPD Major Crimes unit.

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The Night Agent – Netflix – 23 Jan

Action thriller The Night Agent is back for Season 2 as a young FBI agent (Gabriel Basso) navigates a world where danger is everywhere and trust is in short supply. Go ahead and binge, it’s really good albeit a bit too Netflixy for my taste.

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Patience – Available free on Channel 4 – 8 Jan

Set in York, detective Bea Metcalf forms an unlikely duo with young police archivist Patience Evans, opening a door into a whole new world for Patience, who has autism and is able to spot clues that others do not see. Starring Laura Fraser (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul) and Ella Maisy Purvis, this is the UK version of hit French series Astrid: Murder in Paris, which coincidentally sees its Season 4 debut 24 January on More4!

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Hightown – Available now on Amazon Prime Video

Jackie Quiñones (Monica Raymund) is a hard-partying cop on Cape Cod, who gets caught up in a brutal string of drug ring murders and police corruption in Provincetown in Season 3 of this excellent and gritty US series.

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The Agency – Available now on Amazon Prime Video and Paramount+

The Agency follows a CIA agent ordered to abandon his undercover life and return to London. When the love he left behind reappears, romance reignites and he is thrown into a deadly game of international intrigue.

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Severance – Available now on Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV – 17 Jan

In this clever sci-fi drama Mark S (Adam Scott) leads a team of office co-workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives; when a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.

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Reawakening – Available now on Apple TV and Sky Store

A couple whose daughter aged 14 went missing and then reappears after a decade. But is it really her? Starring Jared Harris, Juliet Stevenson, and Erin Doherty

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Protection – BritBox, Amazon Prime Video – 29 Dec

Following a witness protection officer (Happy Valley’s Siobhan Finneran), who finds herself at the centre of a breach, compromised by an extramarital romance with a coworker, but resolute in her resolve to fight back and unearth the real cause of corruption within her unit.

Saint-Pierre – CBC TV – 6 Jan

After exposing corruption, a Newfoundland cop is exiled to French islands where he teams up with a headstrong deputy to solve baffling crimes beyond the idyllic locale’s facade.

Murder in a small town – Available now on Amazon Prime Video and Hulu

Karl Alberg moves to the idyllic coastal town of Gibsons in British Columbia to become the new police chief but a string of murders and an interest in the attractive local librarian keep him busy.

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