In the espionage thriller “The Agency,” Michael Fassbender plays a CIA case officer working deep undercover when he’s abruptly exfiltrated and called back to London Station. No one is telling him why.

If only I’d encountered Showtime’s new spy thriller having never seen its source material, the mid-2010s French drama known in English as The Bureau. I’d have no idea that something might be missing—that je ne sais quoi of the original—or that there was a different way to be for “Martian,

The Agency' reshuffles the 'Homeland' paradox as an American CIA agent falls for a teacher who may or may not be a secret agent herself. [REVIEW]