Agent X is an American action drama television series which aired from November 8 to December 27, 2015, on TNT. It stars Sharon Stone, Jeff Hephner, Jamey Sheridan, John Shea and Mike Colter.
On December 15, 2015, TNT canceled the series after one season. The show was also broadcast on Bravo Canada days after.
Plot
After becoming United States vice president, Natalie Maccabee is informed that there is a secret paragraph in the U.S. Constitution creating a special agent to help protect the country in times of crisis, under instruction of the vice president. John Case, former Special Forces operator, is the current operative "Agent X", who handles sensitive cases that the CIA and the FBI cannot.
Cast
- Sharon Stone as Vice President Natalie Maccabee
- Jeff Hephner as John Case
- Jamey Sheridan as Edwin Stanton
- John Shea as President Thomas Eckhart
- Mike Colter as Miles Lathem
- Gerald McRaney as Malcolm Millar
- Olga Fonda as Olga Petrovka
- James Earl Jones as Chief Justice of the United States Caleb Thorne
- Andrew Howard as Nicolas Volker / Raymond Marks
Episodes
Production
Agent X was produced by TNT Originals in association with Beacon Pictures. Armyan Bernstein and Sharon Stone are executive producers. William Blake Herron, who also executive-produced, wrote the pilot, which was directed by Peter O'Fallon.
Critical reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 27% of 22 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.0/10. The website's consensus reads: "Unintentionally hilarious, poorly paced, and overall redundant, Agent X is a secret agent drama that should have remained secret." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 43 out of 100, based on 15 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.
The New York Times said in a review of the series: "Without the jokey bravado (or high production values) of Strike Back or the charming wonkiness of Warehouse 13, the only claim Agent X has on our attention is Ms. Stone. Even that is tenuous — while her performance loosens up a bit across the first four episodes, her screen time appears to shrink."
Variety wrote in their review "Possessing some of the flavor of National Treasure, Agent X takes the amusing step of investing the Vice President's office with secret constitutional powers, all for the purpose of concocting a Yankee version of James Bond. And wonder of wonders, it mostly works, at least initially, combining a sense of playfulness with bountiful action and, less successfully, a sweeping conspiracy.
The Wall Street Journal called Agent X an "improbable but high-action thriller." Also saying "This light and fast-moving version of an America-in-peril espionage thriller doesn't really deal in moral ambiguity and shades of gray."
References
External links
- Agent X at IMDb
