In Traitor: what is Charlie Cox’s new series worth on Netflix?

Charlie Cox, Oona Chaplin and Olga Kurylenko are at the heart of Traitora classic yet powerfully plotted spy thriller, available on Netflix.

After finding the role of lawyer Matt Murdoch and his new Daredevil costume in the Marvel series, she hulkavailable on Disney+, the British actor charlie cox is back, on Netflix this time. In In trait, a spy thriller, the actor plays Adam Lawrence, an agent trained and trained by MI6, who enjoys a brilliant career after leaving the field. Married to Maddy (Oona Chaplin), with whom he raises his two children from a first marriage, he leads a tidy existence, until an assassination attempt on the director of the intelligence service, fomented by Kara (Olga Kurylenko) a Russian spy, does not come to upset everything. Propelled to the rank of director, Adam must shed light on this story and arrest the suspects as quickly as possible. Without knowing what mess he is getting into, Adam agrees to meet Kara, who is none other than his ex-girlfriend. She makes revelations to Adam that risk jeopardizing the balance that Adam has built over the years. He doesn’t want to see her again but she intends to stay around…

Traitor (Netflix): A spy thriller unlike any other

Contrary to the tradition of great spy films, Traitor The plot is fairly fluid and easy to follow. The tension is not at its height as in Bodyguard (available on Netflix) and there is no supercharged action like in Alias, but Traitor stands out by placing the focus on family, sentimental and friendly relationships. The unexpected returns of Kara, in Adam’s case, or Dede in Maddy’s, remind us that the past is never far away. Encounters have consequences on the life that everyone has built for themselves. This importance of family ties makes En Traitre a family series based on espionage more than a real series on spies, as can be for example the British series MI5. The world of spies is here a pretext to develop the complex relationship that is woven between Adam, Maddy and Kara.

En traitre (Netflix): an interesting fool’s game where the viewer is a stakeholder

To the interesting postulate of making a series of espionage, a family thriller, is added the ludic aspect of the scenario. Playing with the notions of doubt and trust – we no longer know who is lying and who is telling the truth – the series is structured like a playful puzzle. It is up to the viewer to form their own opinion based on their intuition and to put each piece back in its proper place. This overlapping of elements take on their full meaning thanks to the very accurate interpretation of the actors. Despite a kind of role in which we have seen her a lot, Olga Kurylenko is convincing, when Charlie Cox and Oona Chaplin shine in a register different from what they usually do. Ciarán Hinds (Sir Martin Angelis) is disturbing and Beau Gadsdon (Ella) and Samuel Leakey (Callum), the two teenagers are also doing very well. Whether In trait does not take the guts like other spy series, the series is effective and engaging.