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Still riding the adrenaline high from The Night Agent season 3? These three Netflix picks will keep the momentum going.

By Charles | 5 Mar 2026
Still riding the adrenaline high from The Night Agent season 3? These three Netflix picks will keep the momentum going.

 

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The Night Agent season 3 landed on Netflix in February 2026, and predictably, it wasted no time climbing the platform's most-watched rankings. Peter Sutherland's latest mission is as globe-trotting and pulse-raising as ever—but at just 10 episodes, most viewers will find themselves at the end credits far sooner than they'd like.

The good news: Netflix is not short on gripping, binge-worthy alternatives. Below are three shows worth queuing up immediately after you finish the season—each one mysterious, tightly plotted, and perfectly suited to a weekend marathon.


1. Bodyguard (2018)

Richard Madden as PS David Budd in Bodyguard

Any fan of The Night Agent will find an immediate kinship with this British political thriller. Richard Madden plays Police Sergeant David Budd, a decorated Army veteran quietly battling PTSD who is assigned to protect Home Secretary Julia Montague (Keeley Hawes)—a politician whose ideology couldn't be further from his own. What begins as a tense professional arrangement quickly unravels into something far more dangerous.

At just six episodes, Bodyguard is one of the more satisfying binge-watches on the platform—compact, expertly paced, and genuinely unpredictable. The series drew widespread critical praise upon its release and earned both Golden Globe and Emmy nominations; Madden took home the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama Series. If you somehow missed it the first time around, now is the ideal moment to catch up.


2. The Lincoln Lawyer (2022–present)

Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as Mickey Haller in The Lincoln Lawyer

If The Night Agent is your kind of show, there is a strong chance The Lincoln Lawyer already lives on your watchlist—but if it doesn't, the fix is simple. Scroll a few titles down the Netflix top 10, press play, and prepare for one of the streamer's most reliably entertaining crime dramas.

Based on Michael Connelly's bestselling novels, the series follows defense attorney Mickey Haller (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo) as he navigates an increasingly complicated career and personal life with each passing season. The recently released fourth season raises the stakes considerably: Mickey finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit and must represent himself in court to prove his innocence. It is the kind of propulsive, twist-laden storytelling that makes skipping to the next episode feel involuntary. A fifth season is already on the way.


3. Run Away (2025)

Run Away on Netflix

No post-thriller watchlist would be complete without at least one entry from Harlan Coben's prolific Netflix catalogue. The author has produced an impressive run of limited series adaptations, each one built around the kind of slow-burn mystery that makes it nearly impossible to stop watching. His most recent release, Run Away, is the natural starting point for anyone coming in fresh.

Adapted from Coben's novel of the same name, the eight-episode series centers on an investment banker whose search for his missing daughter draws him into a labyrinth of dark secrets and genuine danger. The further he digs, the more treacherous the terrain becomes. Run Away dropped on New Year's Day 2025 and delivers exactly the kind of tense, layered storytelling that keeps viewers locked in through to the final scene.


All three series are available to stream on Netflix now. Whether you gravitate toward political intrigue, courtroom drama, or slow-burn mystery, each one offers the same quality that made The Night Agent so easy to devour—and so hard to forget.

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