In many ways _The Agency_ is pretty typical of its time. But it got then overtaken by events in real life.

The show was supposed to air in late September 2011 but the 9/11 events changed not only the running order but the actual content itself. They re-wrote it on the fly which let to Ronny Cox's charcacter been taken out and everything focussing more on terrorism.

Watching this now it may feel a bit dated and even tiring because many shows since then have used this story lines. But I guess this can be considered the first show doing it, being so close to the attacks. Of course, this being a US show, comes with the expected phrases and patriotism. But, again, I must say they managed this rather well and even had characters questioning what was been done and asking for the morals. Yes, in the end they all followed suit.

The characters were well crafted and played equally well by there respective actors. They all had some background to give them depth and I think had this show gone on there could have been a lot of interesting angles.

I like the first season more because in the second they changed some cast and it got a different dynamic. Plus they added a thing that writers seem to be drawn to like a bee to honey and that was absolutely unnessessary: [spoiler] a romance/love story [/spoiler].

All together not a waste of time to watch this but notice it ends on a cliffhanger and there is no closure. I am sure they wanted to continue but CBS thought different.