The second season of Netflix's action-packed spy-thriller series ‘The Recruit' has officially begun filming this week (January 4, 2024) in North Vancouver, BC, Canada. Starring Noah Centineo in the leading role, this first season was released in December 2022 on Netflix, worldwide.
‘The Recruit’ Season 2 will take almost three months to officially wrap up the filming on March 21, 2024. While renewing the show, Netflix confirmed that the second season will premiere sometime in 2024, but the delay in production due to various strikes may lead to a change in plans. Initially, the second season was scheduled to start filming in July 2023 and wrap in September 2023. The first season of the series was filmed at multiple locations around the world including Los Angeles, California, United States; Montreal, Quebec, Canada; and Vienna, Austria.
Netflix has also revealed the official logline for Season 2 along with confirming a new addition to the show's regular cast. The Recruit Season 2 finds CIA lawyer Owen Hendricks pulled into a life-threatening espionage situation in South Korea, only to realize that the bigger threat just might be coming from inside the agency. Julian Holmes and Jessica Yu are directing the episodes of the second season.
Actor Teo Yoo joins the second season cast as a clever and driven South Korean National Intelligence Service (NIS) agent, who is highly skilled with a subversive sense of humor and will go to any lengths to protect those he loves and cares about.
The first season follows Owen Hendricks (Noah Centineo), a young CIA lawyer whose first week on the job is turned upside down when he discovers a threatening letter from former asset Max Meladze (Laura Haddock), who threatens to expose the agency unless she is cleared of a serious crime. As he travels the world in the hopes of completing his assignment and making a name for himself at the CIA, Owen quickly becomes entangled in a dangerous and often absurd world of power politics and devious players.
In the finale of the first season, Owen and Max find themselves tied up in a leaky basement when the same blonde woman Owen had flirted with earlier and later spotted during the final shootout walks into the room with a gun. “Karolina,” says a surprised Max, before getting shot in the chest. Then Karolina turns to Owen and says, “Who are you, and what the fuck are you doing with my mother?”
Season 2 is likely to pick up from the cliffhanger ending that found Owen and Max captured with their lives endangered. Max is shot, but she may not be dead. It will be interesting to see how Owen gets himself out after being caught in the troubling mother-daughter relationship, who are after each other's life. Noah Centineo, Laura Haddock, Maddie Hasson, and Fivel Stewart will reprise their roles in Season 2.
The first season of ‘The Recruit’ received mixed reactions from the critics, some called it a brilliant and funny spy-thriller series while some mentioned that the first few episodes were dull, and the series only picks up in the second half. We also reviewed the show, and you can read our ‘The Recruit’ Season 1 Review.
The series is executive produced by Noah Centineo, Doug Liman, Gene Klein, and David Bartis on behalf of Hypnotic, Charlie Ebersol, Adam Ciralsky, and Alexi Hawley who also serves as Creator and Showrunner. The series also stars Laura Haddock, Aarti Mann, Colton Dunn, Fivel Stewart, Vondie Curtis Hall, Daniel Quincy Annoh, Kristian Bruun, Angel Parker, Byron Mann, and Kaylah Zander.