The Night Agent Season 2 Will Be ‘Morally Difficult’ for Peter Sutherland, Says Creator

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The Night Agent Season 2 Will Be ‘Morally Difficult’ for Peter Sutherland, Says Creator

While the first season of The Night Agent was “logistically very difficult” for Gabriel Basso’s Peter Sutherland, Season 2 will be much more difficult for him. According to series creator Shawn Ryan, viewers will see the principled character in a “morally queasy” situation.

The Night Agent Season 2, which will consist of 10 episodes, is set to arrive on Netflix on Thursday, January 23 — almost two years after the first season premiered on the streamer. Based on the novel of the same name by Matthew Quirk, Season 1 followed FBI agent Peter Sutherland, who gets stationed in the “Night Action” emergency line. One call, however, suddenly threw him into a dangerous conspiracy involving a mole at the White House.

What did Shawn Ryan say about The Night Agent Season 2?

The series creator explained in an interview with TVLine that Peter’s quest during Season 1 was difficult, though “morally clear.” However, Season 2 will be different and will put Peter’s moralities to the test.

“Season 1 was logistically very difficult for Peter, but morally kind of clear. ‘What was the right thing to do?’ was clear for him to do, and he did it. One of the things I really wanted in Season 2 was to make things morally difficult for him. One of the lessons I learned back on The Unit, David Mamet would always talk about how ‘good drama isn’t the choice between right and wrong; good drama is the choice between two wrongs.’ I’ve always held onto that as we’ve broken stories,” Ryan told the outlet.

He continued, “We learn through the book that Peter’s a very moral guy, a very principled guy, and he’s going to do the right thing. So, we endeavored hard in Season 2 to try to make it much more difficult for him to know what the right thing to do was, to struggle with that. We see [in one of the episodes] that it sickens him to tell a lie, but he has to do it for the greater good. Taking a very principled character and putting him in a job that is very morally queasy was something that felt like a good evolution in Season 2.”

Season 2 will also star Luciane Buchanan as Rose Larkin, Amanda Warren as Catherine Weaver, Hong Chau as Diane Farr, Arienne Mandi as Noor, Louis Herthum as Jacob Monroe, Berto Colon as Solomon, Michael Malarkey as Markus, Keon Alexander as Javad, and more.

Per the Season 2 synopsis, Peter’s efforts to save the President during the first season have landed him a Night Agent job in Season 2. However, “working in the secretive organization of Night Action will propel Peter into a world where danger is everywhere and trust is in short supply.”

The Night Agent Season 2 will premiere on Netflix on January 23. The first season is available to stream on the platform.