If only I’d encountered Showtime’s new spy thriller having never seen its source material, the mid-2010s French drama known in English as The Bureau. I’d have no idea that something might be missing—that je ne sais quoi of the original—or that there was a different way to be for “Martian,

The Agency' reshuffles the 'Homeland' paradox as an American CIA agent falls for a teacher who may or may not be a secret agent herself. [REVIEW]

Jeffrey Wright, Jodie Turner-Smith and Richard Gere also star in the drama created by Jez and John-Henry Butterworth, which looks at the world of international espionage through the London CIA station.