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Noah Centineo wears black and grey low top Converse “Chuck Taylor” All Stars in the series.
The Recruit
Owen Hendricks wears grey and black low-top chucks throughout Season 2 of The Recruit.
Owen Hendricks wears grey and black low-top chucks throughout Season 2 of The Recruit.
>Are you the kind of person that dives into the deep end without a plan? Just how far are you willing to go to see something through? When the world is actively trying to compromise you, can you handle the pressure? Depending on your answers to these questions, you just may be cut out for life as a CIA lawyer. Yes, that is right, the CIA has lawyers just like every other institution in America, and if what happens in Netflix’s The Recruit is to be believed, the day-to-day isn’t for the faint of heart. The show stars Noah Centineo and an ensemble cast that includes Colton Dunn, Laura Haddock, Aarti Mann, Fivel Stewart, Daniel Quincy Annoh, Kristian Bruun, Kaylah Zander, Maddie Hasson, Angel Parker, Teo Yoo, Vondie Curtis-Hall, and Nathan Fillion.
Even lawyers get to do some good honest spying for the Agency.
The Recruit follows Owen Hendricks (Centineo), a lawyer who just got a job working in the General Counsel’s office at the CIA. Owen is a military kid but is deadset on just being a good lawyer and staying out of trouble like his deceased father wanted. However, his first task is to handle a grey mail case from former CIA asset Max Meladze (Haddock). This case takes Owen all over the world and sees him nearly die multiple times. Season 2 picks up right where Season 1 left off, with Owen being captured by Max’s daughter Nichka (Hasson). After killing her mother, Nichka says she is going to kill Owen. He’s able to hold her off until Agent Dawn Gilbane (Parker) subdues her. However, she then turns her gun onto Owen, asking if she can trust him with all the compromising info he knows about her. Owen is able to talk his way out of it, just before bleeding out. He reunites with Hannah (Stewart) and is sent home.
Owen and his chucks show how much of a wild card he is amongst the rest of the Agency.
Back at Langley, Owen has been “rubber roomed”, meaning his office is cleared out and he is on the bench until internal affairs investigate his actions in the Meladze case. He has strict instructions from his boss, CIA General Counsel Walter Nyland (Curtis-Hall) to do absolutely nothing. He gets antsy though and opens up a letter that is mistakenly delivered to him. In it, a new grey mail case awaits him, one that is so dangerous that he is the only one who can take care of it. Since he is considered “persona non grata”, if he fails the Agency can put the entire thing on him, and claim he went rogue. With this second and final chance, Owen sets out for Korea to meet with his grey mailer (Yoo) and hopefully save his career and the United States secrets.
Owen spends a lot of time in this room this season.
The immediate takeaway from this show is the star power and charisma of Noah Centineo. The character of Owen only works if you truly believe that he can actually talk his way out of the incredible danger he puts himself in and Centineo is one of the only actors in his age range who can do that. He is able to juggle so much in this show between action, comedy, and being the bridge of a large ensemble. Speaking of the action, the action is great with Season 2 taking it up a notch. The show also is not afraid to get dark with its cynicism and its portrait of the CIA. It is an organization that is not made of noble heroes but instead is full of people trying to survive by any means necessary. If a plucky lawyer has to die in the process, oh well. This show is such an easy watch due in large part to its star.
Season 2 takes place in South Korea and we get to see a lot of the country as Owen solves his new case.
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