The Recruit Trivia | 30 facts about the new Netflix series

“The Recruit” is a new spy-adventure series for the streaming service Netflix. Noah Centineo stars.

So let’s find out some trivia and facts about the new series,

1. The Recruit is an American spy-adventure television series
2. It is created by Alexi Hawley for Netflix
3. The series follows Owen Hendricks (Noah Centineo), a CIA lawyer who becomes involved in massive international conflicts with dangerous parties because an asset tried to expose her relationship to the agency
4. The series was released on Netflix on December 16, 2022
5. Fledgling lawyer Owen Hendricks, who has just started working for the CIA, has his life turned upside down when he encounters an asset who demands exoneration from the agency
6. Once she tries to expose her long-term relationship with the agency, he becomes entangled in convoluted international politics
7. As Hendricks negotiates with the asset, he finds himself at odds with menacing individuals and groups, risking his life as he tries to fulfill his duties
8. Each episode of The Recruit bears CIA-like initials in their title
9. The codes, which are not unlike the multitude of acronyms for different divisions and projects that Owen Hendricks must understand in his role within the agency
10. Codes Owen acknowledges at one point he has trouble keeping up with
11. This represent a line of dialogue from their respective episodes
12. It was announced that Netflix acquired an unnamed espionage drama on April 28, 2021, with Entertainment One backing the production
13. Dubbed as Graymail, the project was created by Alexi Hawley, executive producer of several popular procedural drama series, such as Castle, The Rookie and its spin-off
14. Alexi, in turn, served as its executive producer and showrunner. Alongside Hawley, Noah Centineo; Doug Liman, Gene Klein and David Bartis of Hypnotic; Adam Ciralsky and Charlie Ebersol of P3 Media also joined the project as executive producers
15. The project was set as eight part one-hour television series
16. It was unveiled on September 28, 2022, that, Alexi Hawley, George Ghanem, Amelia Roper, Hadi Deeb, Niceole Levy, and Maya Goldsmith served as the series writers; meanwhile, Doug Liman, Alex Kalymnios, Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour Jr., and Julian Holmes directed the episodes
17. When the production was announced on April 28, 2021, Noah Centineo was unveiled as the lead character of the television series
18. More castings were revealed on November 12, 2021, with Aarti Mann, Daniel Quincy Annoh, Vondie Curtis Hall, Kristian Bruun, Laura Haddock, Colton Dunn and Fivel Stewart joined the main cast alongside Centineo
19. In addition, Byron Mann, Angel Parker, and Kaylah Zander were also announced as recurring capacities for the series
20. Principal photography for the series reportedly took place in Montreal, Quebec and Los Angeles, California on October 25, 2021
21. The filming had reportedly wrapped on March 28, 2022
22. The series was promoted during Netflix TUDUM Global event on September 24, 2022, on YouTube
23. Additional info, including its release date and official title, were unveiled at the official website of the event
24. First official trailer for the series was released on YouTube on November 16, 2022
25. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 79% approval rating
26. With an average rating of 7.5/10
27. Based on 19 critic reviews
28. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 60 out of 100
29. Based on 12 critics
30. Indicating “mixed or average reviews”