Netflix's The Recruit trailer shows what happens when a legal drama suddenly turns into a Bourne movie

Netflix has released the first trailer for The Recruit, a spy thriller starring Noah Centineo (澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Black Adam) as a rookie CIA lawyer who finds himself way over his head as he works to 🐠uncover a blackmail plot.

The teaser starts off in surprisingly low-key fashion: Centineo’s Owen Hendricks enters the corridors of power as an inexperienced and wildly awkward lawyer with just two days on the job. He’s then taskedꦅ with tracking down a former asset who has plans to blackmail the CIA unless their name is cleared of a serious crime. As a 9-to-5 in Langley goes, it’s a pretty quiet day at the office.

Then, thi𝕴ngs suddenly take a left turn i🐼nto Jason Bourne and James Bond territory. The fish-out-of-water is thrown into the deep end, taking on armed henchmen, shadowy agents – and even swapping 007’s trademark Martini for a White Claw.

It’s no surprise to learn, then, that Doug Liman – director of 2002’s The Bourne Identity – will helm the first two episodes. The Recruit is being brought to life on Netflix by Alexi Hawley, who also created the criminally underrated procedural se✱ries The Rookie, starring Nathan Fillion.

That creative partnership, when coupled with a Noah Centineo performancꦦe tha🗹t goes against his previous work (including Netflix’s To All The Boys… series), adds up to an action-packed, high-octane series that could be one of the streamer’s sleeper 2022 hits.

All eight episodes of The Recruit will be 𝓰available to ✤stream on Netflix from December 16.

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