Overview

• The Agency, a U.S. remake of the acclaimed French series Le Bureau des Légendes, premiered on Canal+ on May 22, 2025.
• Michael Fassbender stars as a CIA agent returning from years undercover in Africa, supported by a high-profile cast including Richard Gere and Lashana Lynch.
• The series shifts the original’s setting to a London-based CIA office, incorporating contemporary geopolitical conflicts in Ethiopia, Sudan, Belarus, and Ukraine.
• Critics praise its sophisticated production values and cerebral approach but lament its lack of the original’s raw tension and emotional resonance.
• Creator Éric Rochant did not participate in the remake, which some reviewers feel has diluted the essence of the original series.