The show also features Aarti Mann, Colton Dunn, Fivel Stewart, Daniel Quincy Annoh, Kristian Bruun, Vondie Curtis-Hall.
It began airing on Netflix in 2022. It's scheduled to air another season.
The Recruit contains examples of:
- Alliterative Name: Max Meladze (Haddock).
- The Cameo: Nathan Fillion makes in appearance as a CENTCOM Agent in the first season finale.
- Eagleland: Max's opinion of the states is that Type 1 is just a marketing scheme; Type 2 is the reality.Max: "Everybody is struggling and everything tastes like sugar."
- Elites Are More Glamorous: Averted. The CIA's SOG operators are portrayed as unhinged Dumb Muscle at best.
- Averting this trope seems to be a Central Theme of the show. The CIA's field agents are shown to generally be self-interested, corrupt, ruthless and willing to break international law to get the mission done. Their legal arm get away with just being careerist pigs and the rest of the agency look down on them for being pencil pushing bureaucrats standing in their way...when they're the reason they can do what they do and not go to prison.
- Guile Hero: As he is just a lawyer and has no intelligence or military training in the slightest, Hendricks is often forced to rely on his wits, his law training and dumb luck to see him through.
- Likes Older Women: Played with in respect to Owen. He's only too happy to oblige upon learning that Amelia Salazar requires sex in exchange for helping him, and he later becomes involved with Max. However, the only person he shows actual romantic interest in is Hannah, his ex, who is his own age.
- Motive Misidentification: In one episode, Owen is asked to help deal with the case of an experimental interrogation robot which tore a man's arm off during testing. In an attempt to make nice with coworker Violet, who has an Irrational Hatred of him, he arranges for her to be given the case, figuring it's an important one which will help raise her profile. Unfortunately, what he didn't know was that the controversial nature of AI makes cases involving it toxic. Violet does know that, and she assumes he gave her the case to sabotage her.
- Reassigned to Antarctica: The CIA has satellite offices in every major American city; in theory they are so the agency has a foothold in every corner of the country but in practice they serve as a dumping ground for their rejects and screw ups, far from the action in DC and Langley. At one point, Hendricks needs the help of the Phoenix branch and as incentive he promises them that he will put in a good word with Langley and get them transferred to a better posting. After getting what he's after, he doesn't bother. Their own performance really did not help.
- Tagline: "Inexperience is an Asset".
- Title Drop: Each episode title is an acronym of a quote that is said in the episode.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: Owen's father was a soldier killed in Afghanistan and the reason why he wanted to work in National Defense, despite having received very lucrative offers from more prestigious law firms after leaving law school, was because he believed it would make his father proud. The only reason he didn't just join the military was because he promised his mother he wouldn't follow in his father's footsteps.
