French spy classic rebooted in English

AMONG AFICIONADOS OF TELEVISION spy series, The Bureau, or Le Bureau des Légendes in the original French, is generally agreed to be the gold standard of modern espionage dramas. I reviewed it in 2020, describing it as “utterly absorbing”. The series follows a group of officers in the DGSE, the French foreign intelligence service, and was made with the agency’s cooperation. The Bureau, I wrote, was made with an expectation that viewers will have an attention span and “intelligent curiosity about the world” — making it impressively authentic and complex. Naturally, after all the critical acclaim, Hollywood wanted a piece of the action. So now we have The Agency, the remake, or perhaps “re-imagining” is a better word, co-produced by George Clooney. New versions of old classics are quite the…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2025

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