Oh, what's this new spy thriller about Michael Fassbender appearing in London? Yeah, man, his love life becomes a weapon for his enemies on an international intelligence-trafficking mission? More clues, of course: his boss is a veteran actor, with gray hair, but still handsome. With this information, there could be two titles: either the series or the The agency (and the silver fox would be Richard Gere), or the new film by Steven Soderbergh, Confidential (black bag), which has practically the same elements (and Pierce Brosnan plays the director of the British spy agency). In fact, both works could be compared face to face, pointing to each other like the famous Spiderman meme.

Spies, undercover agents and hired killers are gaining ground in prestigious television fiction. A few weeks ago, the series landed on Netflix Black doves, with Keira Knightley ready to show her most violent side. With a fifth installment already announced on Apple TV+, Slow horses has become a cult series in a landscape where it is increasingly difficult for a title to gain loyal followers. And now it is coming to SkyShowtime The Agency, the American remake of The Bureau, by Frenchman Éric Rochand. The adaptation is by British playwright Jez Butterworth —whose work we have seen here the splendid Jerusalem by Pere Arquillué—, and his brother John-Henry, with whom he had already signed the scripts for films such as Ford v Ferrari and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. On his own, Jez also collaborated on the writing of one of the last James Bond adventures, Spectro (2015), so this isn't the first time they've ventured into spy fiction.