Agent X

Nobody (including James Earl Jones as the chief justice) plays openly for laughs here, which would spoil an already precarious illusion. Yet amid the high-voltage action, there is banter and always an open invitation to laugh if you want to.

The show doesn’t cover new ground, but it gets a passing grade for being competent within the overly familiar territory of the spy genre.

Yes, it’s all a lot of hokum in this mostly lighthearted adventure series that situates Ms. Stone as the boss while she watches Agent X run missions via video link.

Agent X has very little that's new. It goes pretty much where every spy show has gone before, including the wry mid-1960s dramedy The Wild Wild West. I admit, Agent X offers boatloads of fun. It's a pleasant diversion filled with great eye candy.

Agent X is a silly, overly earnest espionage drama. [6 Nov 2015, p.57]

It’s meant to be a straight-ahead action drama, but it plays like a spoof, from the absurd premise to the cheap sets and bad acting.

Unfortunately Agent X remains an intentional drama, one that is insanely but deliciously bad. Hilariously bad.