With the Netflix series returning after the devastating L.A. fires, the showrunner offers this message while unpacking his spy hit starring Gabriel Basso: "Sometimes we need an escape from the realities of the world.

The story includes details about Season 2 of Netflix’s The Night Agent. Season 1 of The Night Agent had a clear blueprint, Matthew Quirk’s novel, on which creator Shawn Ryan based the series. With an open-ended Season 1 finale and no source material for Season 2,

Netflix will open up the next chapter for The Night Agent when Season 2 arrives this Thursday, Jan. 23 — nearly two years after the hit thriller dropped Season 1. Based on the novel of the same name by Matthew Quirk,