One of many extra anticipated 2025 Netflix originals was arguably the marquee TV debut when it hit the streaming service in late January, although The Evening Agent’s second season hasn’t precisely earned the identical optimistic viewer suggestions as the primary season. (Extra on that decrease.) Nonetheless, I anticipated it to be a mainstay atop Netflix’s Prime 10 rankings lengthy sufficient to justify the early Season 3 order, and but it’s already been changed at #1 for the second time.
O.J. Simpson And The WWE Have Taken The Evening Agent Down
Lower than every week after The Evening Agent‘s Peter Sutherland returned to followers’ lives — with Rose questionably nonetheless alongside for the experience — the four-part docuseries American Manhunt: O.J. Simpson hit the 2025 TV schedule and put audiences proper again within the midst of the early ’90s when the previous NFL star and his mega-trial was go-to headline fodder.
Fairly lots of people have apparently been content material with diving again into that tragedy-fueled media circus. (At the least those that had been really alive when the homicide trial occurred.) The restricted collection took over the #1 spot to kick off the primary weekend of February, and Gabriel Basso’s high-stakes drama fell again all the way down to #2.
This is a full rundown for the day’s rankings:
Netflix’s Prime 10 TV Reveals – February 2, 2025
- 1. American Manhunt: O.J. Simpson
- 2. The Evening Agent
- 3. The Recruit
- 4. American Primeval
- 5. Sakamoto Days
- 6. Youthful
- 7. Squid Sport
- 8. Mo
- 9. XO, Kitty
- 10. The Seven Lethal Sins: 4 Knights of the Apocalypse
Shawn Ryan’s adaptation of Matthew Quirk’s novel held the highest rating in Netflix’s Prime 10 quickly after it debuted on January 23, however was moderately rapidly changed by WWE’s newest Monday Evening Uncooked episode lower than every week later. Given how large it was when the streaming platform took over rights for Uncooked, it wasn’t so stunning that the pre-Royal Rumble installment was watched by a slew of individuals.
However I am undecided how many individuals would have anticipated one more take a look at the infamous O.J. Simpson trial to change into Netflix’s most watched unique programming, a lot much less for greater than someday.
The Evening Agent’s Netflix Rankings Could Be Tied To Viewers Criticisms
Curiously sufficient, crucial reactions to The Evening Agent largely matched up with what was stated about Season 1, and Season 2 even managed to land a better rating on Rotten Tomatoes: 83% S2 approval vs. 74% for S1. However seasonal comparisons stand out fairly a bit extra in the case of the viewers themselves.
The federal government thriller’s Viewers Rating on Rotten Tomatoes at the moment sits at 40% for Season 2, which is a reasonably stunning drop from the 78% rating earned by Season 1. Greater than 500 followers’ ideas had been tallied for that rating, so this is not only a case of a minority opinion being magnified.
The complaints logged ranged from disinterest in Rose’s continued presence, the writing, the dialogue, the actors, and one way or the other much more. The remark under, shared by “Amanda B,” hits plenty of the factors that others made in regards to the modifications made.
Now I do know why Gabriel Basso desires to give up performing… what number of nice ideas should be ruined by a horrendous sequel earlier than showrunners/scriptwriters/administrators notice it’s, actually, NOT the neatest transfer to deviate from every thing that made your first outing successful? I used to be anticipating a drastically totally different vibe from this second season – it needed to be, due to the precise premise of season every body logical evolutions of Peter’s story from there – however I by no means thought I’d discover myself probing each second of those ten episodes, looking for proof of life for something that had made the primary iteration so nice.
Not that there weren’t nonetheless loads of comparatively optimistic opinions shared, and never that this restricted group of opinions can legitimately clarify why the present is not sustaining an viewers large enough to remain at #1. However it would not take the formation of a clandestine authorities company to unofficially put two and two collectively.
It doesn’t matter what its eventual viewership finally ends up being, The NIght Agent Season 3 is on the best way to offer us extra from a giant Season 1 character, in addition to many extra badass combat scenes, at the very least hopefully.