What to watch next if you loved ‘The Night Manager’ Season 2
What to watch next if you loved ‘The Night Manager’ Season 2
From political power plays to deep-cover espionage, these shows live in the same lane.
If you loved “The Night Manager,” it probably wasn’t just because it was a spy show. It was the kind of spy show. Expensive hotels. Private planes. Dangerous people who look calm while they ruin lives. Everything feels polished on the surface, but underneath it’s all paranoia, leverage, and moral rot, especially as things escalate and expand in Season 2. The tension comes from watching someone survive by staying two steps ahead in rooms where one wrong move gets you killed. Now that you’re done, there’s that familiar question: what else scratches that same itch? The good news is “The Night Manager” sits in a very specific lane of glossy, adult espionage, and these four shows live right next to it. Here’s what to watch next if you just finished the second season of “The Night Manager.”
The Night Manager
Former British soldier Jonathan Pine navigates the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington where an unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade. To infiltrate the inner circle of lethal arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper, Pine must himself become a criminal.
Loved ‘The Night Manager’? Watch ‘Black Doves’
If “The Night Manager” is elegant and restrained, “Black Doves” is louder and more dangerous. The show follows a spy embedded deep inside political power, living a double life that begins to unravel after a personal loss triggers a chain reaction of violence and conspiracy. It moves fast and isn’t afraid to get messy.
What ties it back to “The Night Manager” is proximity to power. Being close is the whole advantage, and also the greatest risk. Glamour and menace sit side by side, and no space ever feels truly safe. It’s more pulpy and stylized, but if you loved watching luxury collide with brutality, this is a sharp and satisfying story in a similar world.
Black Doves
When a spy posing as a politician’s wife learns her lover has been murdered, an old assassin friend joins her on a quest for truth — and vengeance.
Check out: ‘A Spy Among Friends’
Where “The Night Manager” is about infiltration, “A Spy Among Friends” is about betrayal. The story centers on a deep personal relationship inside British intelligence and the slow realization that one of the men involved has been lying for years. There’s very little action, and that’s intentional. The suspense lives in conversations, silences, and the weight of what’s left unsaid.
This pairs perfectly with “The Night Manager” because both shows treat trust as a weapon. If the most gripping moments of “The Night Manager” were the scenes where people smiled and drank champagne while lying to each other, this show exists entirely in that space.
A Spy Among Friends
Follow the defection of notorious British intelligence officer and KGB double agent, Kim Philby, through the lens of his complex relationship with MI6 colleague and close friend, Nicholas Elliott.
Watch next: ‘The Copenhagen Test’
“The Night Manager” is built around the idea of living inside a cover. “The Copenhagen Test” takes that idea and pushes it into full paranoia. The premise follows an intelligence agent whose mind may be compromised, meaning his enemies can see and hear everything he does. Yeah, that’s a strong hook.
The connection here is pressure. Both shows trap their leads in situations where performance equals survival. The difference is in aesthetic and tone. “The Copenhagen Test” leans into modern techno-thriller territory, replacing sunlit luxury with surveillance anxiety and claustrophobia. But if what hooked you about “The Night Manager” was the constant sense that the walls were closing in, this taps into that same fear from a different angle, and is just as powerful.
The Copenhagen Test
When an analyst discovers his eyes and ears have been hacked, he’s drawn into a controlled world designed by his agency to draw out their enemies.
Wildcard pick: ‘Slow Horses’
At first glance, “Slow Horses” looks like the opposite of “The Night Manager.” There’s no luxury here. No yachts. No polished hotel lobbies. This is British intelligence pushed into a sad office park, filled with agents who made mistakes and never fully recovered. But beneath the grime, it’s obsessed with the same thing: institutional rot. Both shows understand that the real danger often comes from inside the system itself.
Where “The Night Manager” drops its characters into the world of arms dealers and elites, “Slow Horses” traps its characters inside bureaucracy and quiet cover-ups. The tension still comes from competence under pressure. One wrong move still gets people hurt or killed. The difference is tone, because “Slow Horses” is sharper and meaner, with a dark sense of humor running through it. But when it gets serious, it hits just as hard.
Slow Horses
Follow a dysfunctional team of MI5 agents—and their obnoxious boss, the notorious Jackson Lamb—as they navigate the espionage world’s smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.
More to watch after finishing ‘The Night Manager’:
‘The Night Agent’ | Netflix
The Night Agent
Brought together by a midnight phone call, an FBI agent and a cybersecurity expert must unravel an ever-growing web of political conspiracies.
‘The Little Drummer Girl’ | AMC+
The Little Drummer Girl
Brilliant young actress Charlie strikes up an acquaintance with an intriguing stranger while on holiday in Greece, but it rapidly becomes apparent that his intentions are far from romantic.
‘The Agency’ | Paramount+
The Agency
Covert CIA agent Martian is ordered to abandon his undercover life and return to London Station. When the love he left behind unexpectedly reappears, their romance reignites, pitting his career, his real identity and his mission against his heart while hurling them both into a deadly game of international intrigue and espionage.
‘The Day of the Jackal’ | Peacock
The Day of the Jackal
An unrivalled and highly elusive lone assassin, the Jackal, makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. But following his latest kill, he meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer who starts to track down the Jackal in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe, leaving destruction in its wake.