Why watch?

Tom Ellis playing a CIA agent whose investigations keep blowing up in his face — the guy's charming but his character constantly makes choices that come back to haunt him. The show has this rhythm where every episode escalates something, so it's hard to stop watching. The interrogation scenes are genuinely tense, especially when Ellis has to bluff his way through conversations with bureau colleagues who don't trust his methods.

Who is it for?

Watch this in the evening when you want tense crime drama — no tricks, no superheroes, just solid investigation. If you liked shows like The Wire or Homeland, same sense of reality and tension. Has violence and adult themes, but it's not extreme gore.

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If you liked CIA for the tension and professional work of agents in the field, check out Hunted or The Americans — they also nail the stress through personal conflicts of people in power. In The Pursuit (or similar spy thrillers), every conversation feels like it could be a trap.

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CIA

2026 · 1 season8.1TV-14
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When by-the-book FBI Special Agent Bill Goodman is loaned out to a clandestine CIA/FBI task force, he finds himself teamed up with secretive and roguish CIA case officer Colin Glass. Together they work covert operations in New York, uncovering international plots, terrorist cells, and geopolitical secrets.

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Bill Goodman is a by-the-book FBI agent suddenly pulled into a secret joint task force where he's paired with Colin Glass, a charming but reckless CIA operative. Nick Gehlfuss and Tom Ellis play off each other as they navigate classified operations across New York, chasing terrorist cells and international conspiracies that the public will never hear about. Dick Wolf and David Hudgins created something that feels like a crash course in how espionage actually works when the rules don't apply. If you watched The Americans or liked the tension in Homeland, this scratches that same itch—two agents from different worlds learning to trust each other while nobody above them can know what they're really doing.

Why watch?

Tom Ellis playing a CIA agent whose investigations keep blowing up in his face — the guy's charming but his character constantly makes choices that come back to haunt him. The show…

Who is it for?

Watch this in the evening when you want tense crime drama — no tricks, no superheroes, just solid investigation. If you liked shows like The Wire or Homeland, same sense of reality…

Similar titles

If you liked CIA for the tension and professional work of agents in the field, check out Hunted or The Americans — they also nail the stress through personal conflicts of people in…

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