Jeffrey Wright, Jodie Turner-Smith and Richard Gere also star in the drama created by Jez and John-Henry Butterworth, which looks at the world of international espionage through the London CIA station.

The actor plays an operative called back to London from the undercover life he leads in Ethiopia in this suspenseful series on Paramount+ with Showtime that also features Jeffrey Wright and Richard Gere.

The espionage thriller “The Agency” on Paramount+ is gorgeously shot meditation on the toll of obscuring your identity for the CIA.

Critics are enjoying Michael Fassbender’s performance in The Agency; however, reviews are also split when it comes to other elements of the new Showtime series. The first two episodes of The Agency will premiere on Paramount+ with Showtime on9,

Michael Fassbender perfectly cast as agent emerging from undercover, but some of Showtime series' storylines are difficult to follow.

Michael Fassbender has gone undercover many times as an actor. But if he was asked to try his hand at espionage in real life, he readily admits he’d be a disaster. “I would not be good,” the 47-year-old says with a sheepish grin in a video call from London.

Spies aren't supposed to love. It's not what they signed up for. Martian's handler Naomi (Katherine Waterston) sums up this devil's bargain nicely in a frosty piece of advice she gives to a neophyte agent: "The price [of the job] is surviving totally alone, forever."