The Agency is a remake of Le Bureau des Légendes, the acclaimed French series about agents of France’s foreign-intelligence service, the D.G.S.E. Produced by George Clooney’s Smokehouse Pictures and with a script by the acclaimed Butterworth brothers (Ford v Ferrari, Edge of Tomorrow), it’s a 10-episode thriller that hopscotches from the C.I.A.’s London station to the badlands of Ethiopia, Belarus, and Iran. However, like the original, it’s also grounded in the paranoia, compromises, and drudgery that are the handmaidens of intelligence work. Richard Gere, Michael Fassbender, and Jodie Turner-Smith star. —Andy Meek