The Recruit

2022 - 12 - 17

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Noah Centineo moves away from rom-coms with 'The Recruit' (WOKV)

It's moments like these that make “The Recruit” an atypical CIA drama. Yes, Centineo's Owen is a CIA employee who finds himself in the field à la Jack Ryan, but ...

I wanted to learn everything. "I wanted to know everything. “That’s a differentiation between our show, ‘The Recruit’ and many other spy genre shows and films,” said Centineo. As he ducks from a hail of bullets, Owen recognizes one of the people working for the other side as a woman he met in a bar. It's moments like these that make “The Recruit” an atypical CIA drama. He momentarily forgets about the life-threatening situation at hand and gives a small wave of acknowledgement to her.

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The Recruit Season 2: Cast, Spoilers, and Everything Else You ... (TV Guide)

The Recruit, Noah Centineo's new Netflix spy series from The Rookie's Alexi Hawley, premiered Dec. 16. Here's everything we know about a potential Season 2.

[Angel Parker](https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/angel-parker/3030724184/)) was tracking Max when the pair were picked up, Owen knows a lot of secrets and the CIA might not want to get their hands dirty to rescue him. [Read the full interview here](https://www.tvguide.com/news/noah-centineo-and-the-recruit-boss-tease-the-fallout-from-that-game-changing-finale/). "If he picked up a gun and was suddenly Jason Bourne in Episode 2, that would be a different show," the producer said. That would carry on, in theory, in a Season 2 as well." "It's hard for him to pull that trigger and the repercussions of what happens when he does has impact in a way that I think is really human, for him to have to deal with that moment. Who else will return out of the series regular cast, which includes Fivel Stewart (Hannah), The streaming service usually gives out renewals within a 90-day window of the release. By the end of the season, Owen finds himself held captive by Max's allegedly dead daughter (surprise!) without any idea of whether he'll see home or anyone he ever loves again. 16 and introduced the world to Noah Centineo's Owen Hendricks, a baby-faced lawyer for the CIA who quickly finds himself in way over his head at the nation's most secretive agency. When Owen establishes that Max's threats are legitimate, he's roped into the field to try to save Max, his job, and, most importantly, his own life. It's a brand new show and Netflix will be evaluating its viewership numbers before making a final decision. In the series' first episode, Owen comes across a piece of graymail from a Russian former asset, Max Meladze (

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The Recruit Review: a Messy Comedy-Action Series - The Spool (The Spool)

The Recruit follows Owen, a freshly hired lawyer at the CIA who finds himself over his head as he works with burned asset Max Meladze (Laura Haddock) to ...

The Recruit reads like a network show with the time to fill a season with 22 episodes; as a Netflix show with fewer episodes per season, they don’t have the luxury of a slow build. Centineo can also throw punches with the best of them in action scenes, battling his way out of a double-wide trailer with nary a weapon other than cleaning fluid. Centineo’s had a streak of playing cute fast-talking boys in Netflix’s To All The Boys trilogy. Adding to the mess is a dead dad complex (his dad died serving in Afghanistan) and a roommate situation as she shares an apartment with his ex-girlfriend, Hannah ( [Alexi Hawley](https://thespool.net/?s=alexi+hawley), producer of network action comedies such as The Rookie and Castle. Netflix looks to add to the roster with the new series The Recruit, which follows a dashing but stumbly new CIA lawyer Owen ( [Noah Centineo](https://thespool.net/?s=noah+centineo)), as he falls deeper into internal espionage.

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Is Max Dead? 'The Recruit's' Noah Centineo and Laura Haddock ... (Variety)

Noah Centineo and Laura Haddock reveal whether they think Maxine Meladze is dead. Showrunner Alexi Hawley teases ideas for Season 2.

Should “The Recruit” land a second season order, though, Hawley states that he’s well-prepared. “It seems like Owen would be a perfect person for her to explore that with,” she says. Duplicitous and savvy, Max carries herself throughout the show as one who’s constantly two steps ahead of her enemies; Owen, a new hire in the Office of the General Counsel at the CIA, is always racing to catch up. Yes, you can worry about what happens after, but at the same time, I think you have to be bold, especially in this day and age where there’s 9,000 shows.” “And what the fuck are you doing running around with my mother?” “Karolina?” Max gasps, uttering the name of her long-lost daughter.

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'The Recruit' Creator Alexi Hawley Discusses Working With 'The ... (Collider.com)

The Recruit's creator Alexi Hawley discusses working with The Bourne Identity's Doug Liman on the Netflix series, Nathan Fillion's cameo, and more.

And also the Nietzsche of it all in the CIA office when they're going through who we got to kill and who we don't have to kill, and all that kind of stuff. "You have a daughter, I have a daughter," that kind of thing. But can you talk a little bit about the process of building to that jaw-dropping finale? I mean obviously, you hope for success, but as you could see with that ending, I didn't plan for failure because I feel like in this day and age you just have to be bold, you have to be dramatic, to the expense of everything else. The ending of the season had me wanting to find a number to call Netflix and be like, "You have to renew this for a second season." Can we actually talk about that cliffhanger ending and the way it all kind of comes together? Because even though he is the lead of the show, there is a strong ensemble and we found phenomenal actors to fill those roles. And it's rare that the people that you love and really want to get are available, that’s the same thing with Doug. the black site in Yemen, we shot in a parking lot in Montreal at the sound stages, and the world around it is created, but again, in a way that's seamless. And Nathan is just such a great actor, and so charismatic, and he got excited 'cause he's like, "I get to curse." But that seemed like a really fun way in, and a fresh way into the world. COLLIDER: I love this genre of storytelling, and I specifically love how millennial The Recruit feels.

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'The Recruit' Season 2: Expectations - Will Max And Owen Return ... (Digital Mafia Talkies)

Created by Alexi Hawley, the 2022 Netflix spy thriller "The Recruit" strikes a balance between the appropriate amount of realism and the gimmicks of a.

Dawn and her men were probably the nearest to where Owen and Max had been taken by Karoline. Max knew how the espionage world worked, and she was entertaining the possibility that maybe the killer would have come to kill her and Owen, and Xander, unfortunately, was just at the wrong place at the wrong time. He knew a lot of state secrets, which is why he was not left with the option of not working for the organization. So, everything was set, and Max was getting hopeful that her dream of returning to her homeland might become a reality very soon. It could have been possible that she was made to believe in a narrative that wasn’t exactly true. She considered emotions a sort of frailty, and even if she did feel something, she hid it under her stoic and restrained demeanor. Max was about to meet Lev Orlova and buy her way back into her country. All this time, a mysterious woman named Nichka Lashin, who was believed to be a Russian mafia enforcer, was keeping an eye on the proceedings. [the end of Season 1](https://dmtalkies.com/the-recruit-season-1-ending-explained-2022-netflix-series-alexi-hawley/) made sure that his association is going to be carried forward in the upcoming seasons. Max had to resort to her plan B, and she asked Markus to let her access her safety deposit box. She didn’t have any money there, but she did have something that would help her gain leverage and negotiate with Kirill, the mafia ringleader. Noah Centineo has landed himself a role of a lifetime, considering he not only gets to play the protagonist, Owen Hendricks, in a series that is backed up by some astute writing but also

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'The Recruit' Character: Owen Hendricks, Explained - Why Did ... (Digital Mafia Talkies)

Netflix's 2022 spy thriller, "The Recruit," in addition to taking us on a thrilling ride, paints a very scathing picture of the work culture prevalent in ...

He thought that Max was alone and in desperate need of a person who understood her and accepted her for who she was. We will get to know in the upcoming seasons of “The Recruit” (though Netflix hadn’t confirmed it at the time this article was written) if Max is still alive and if Owen is able to escape the captivity and return back to the United States of America. He was working for the CIA for all the wrong reasons. Working in the legal wing of the CIA was the closest he could come to being on the battlefield and fighting against the enemy. Owen had realized that Max Meladze had something to do with an operation that was conducted by the CIA in 2009 in Belarus. His father had died on the battlefield fighting for his nation, and that is why his mother had told him not to join the army. In the 8th episode of “The Recruit,” we saw that Owen wanted to go back to his home and end his nightmare. What he was doing had long-term consequences, but he was quite smug about it and was in no mood to pay any heed to any advice. Owen had found out that the CIA officer who was involved with Max operated under a pseudonym called Shelby Shaw, but her real name was Dawn Gilbane. It had only been a few days since he had joined the CIA when he found a graymail message that looked authentic, and he realized that the person sending it had some leverage in reality. Owen was well aware of the implications of being associated with the CIA, but still, there was an incessant need inside his core to go to the battlefield. Owen, on the other hand, had brought his doom upon himself, but he was doing it on purpose.

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