Review of Danger Man

Patrick McGoohan was actually Britain's highest paid actor for quite a while, and his great and convincing acting as serious and authoritative characters captivated people in both Europe and the US. I think this is what makes me have such an affinity for Danger Man, since good acting is fun to watch no matter what country it comes from. The show follows a spy working for NATO named John Drake (McGoohan) who is typically called on when someone needs a dangerous task performed well and with no margin for error. Without a doubt one of Danger Man's best features is that each episode is self contained, meaning that the show is not something like Breaking Bad for example, where you need to watch all the episodes to get an understanding of the main story. Every episode in Danger Man is its own story, with the cast changing every episode (except for Patrick obviously). The cast aside from Agent Drake is still excellent, and the writing is very well done, for most episodes anyway. There's some lackluster episodes where you'll be waiting like 17 minutes before a confrontation happens, but no matter what, you can always get right into the storyline. When Drake is sent all over the world in order to investigate strange happenings and take down extremely powerful criminal minds armed with just his wits and maybe a handgun or two, it says a lot about his capabilities and the trust NATO puts in him. Throughout basically all the episodes, McGoohan radiates authority and is able to fight or covertly slip his way out of any situation, and it's usually done in a believable manner. Finally, I have to talk about the confusing naming situation this show seems to have. From what I understand, the show's original British title is just Danger Man, but in America it's always been called Secret Agent, and a song made for the intro called Secret Agent Man reinforces this. On imdb though, two separate shows called Danger Man and Secret Agent are listed, even though they're both the same show. Misunderstandings aside, Danger Man (or whatever it calls itself) is one of the premiere spy shows and must be seen by anyone who is a fan of highly skilled agents taking down nefarious people by any means necessary.