‘The Recruit’ Season 3: Will Netflix Renew Or Cancel? Future Looks In Doubt
Picture: Netflix
After 776 days (2 years and a month), The Recruit finally returned for its second season, albeit with only six episodes. Season 3 is definitely on the cards after that cliffhanger ending, but will it come? Viewing figures aren’t particularly promising three weeks in. Here’s everything we know so far.
The series returned amongst a busy January slate with two shows that could be argued to be working in favor of The Recruit (or against it, depending on your view). We’re referring to The Night Agent, which aligns with the same genre as The Recruit, so the thesis would be that audiences would bleed from one to the other. We’ve also had the return of XO, Kitty, which saw Centineo reprise his role from the To All The Boys movies, which would’ve put the actor freshly in the mind of most Netflixers when The Recruit’s poster popped up.
SPOILER: Season 3 is a must, given the explosive ending of another Nichka committing the shocking murder of CIA agent Dawn Gilane this season, having previously murdered her mother in season 1.
The Recruit Season 3 Renewal Status
Official Renewal Status: Not Yet Renewed
Our Renewal PredictionLeaning Cancelation
Unlike some other shows in its position, The Recruit wasn’t awarded a dual-season renewal after season 1 (The Night Agent and The Diplomat were), so the show will need to pull in good viewership numbers. As we dive deep into below, they’re leading us to believe the show is currently on the way to cancellation unless viewership picks up.
Showrunner Alexi Hawley has suggested that he’s “super optimistic” about the future, telling Deadline, “There’s a lot of goodwill inside Netflix towards the show and towards Noah [Centineo]; I think they very much feel like Noah is a homegrown star, which he is [having started on the streamer’s teen romcoms].” Hawley also confirmed that no writer’s room had been established yet, so he is awaiting good news on the viewership front.
How well is The Recruit season 2 performing so far?
Using various sources, we can check exactly how well The Recruit season 2 is performing, and it’s not looking good. Netflix is so far happy with the global top 10 viewing hours and views data following its release, saying on its TUDUM site that the show “hits its mark,” but does that tell the whole story?
Unlike Forbes, who falsely claimed that we don’t have viewership data for season 1, we do. Let’s chart season 1 vs. season 2 so far and compare it against other season 2 viewership numbers for their first weeks to see how the series stacks up. It is important to note here that the runtimes of the two seasons are substantially different, which works highly in favor of season 2.
In week 1, season 2 still clocked in less (5.9M views vs 7.3M) than season 1. Viewing hours are also substantially different, with season 1 pulling in 52.3M hours vs 31.8M, but that doesn’t take into the runtime. The show has featured in the top 10s for three weeks thus far:
Week in Top 10
Week Period
Hours Viewed
Views / CVE
Weekly Rank
1
January 26th, 2025 to February 2nd, 2025
31,800,000 (New)
5,900,000
2
2
February 2nd, 2025 to February 9th, 2025
33,000,000 (+4%)
6,100,000
2
3
February 9th, 2025 to February 16th, 2025
17,700,000 (-46%)
3,300,000
7
Stacking that against season 1, you can see the show is really having trouble keeping up. In week 2 of season 1, the show saw a notable 83% bump in viewing numbers, but the same has not happened with season 2.
In our top 10 report for the week ending February 2nd, our data expert Frederic said, “The verdict seems clear: if The Recruit wasn’t renewed for two seasons right after its first one (and it appears it wasn’t), then it’s goodbye—since the renewal threshold is around 10M CVEs in 4 days.” That was followed up a week later comparing the show against all other season 2s and it continues to find itself in hot water:
Picture: Netflix n Chiffres
Our only optimistic data point so far is that season 1 returned to the global top 10 for three weeks, suggesting that people are either revisiting (unsurprising given the length of time we’ve had to wait) or discovering the show for the first time.
How is season 2 performing across the world? Let’s take a look at the Netflix top 10 data first:
Country Stats for The Recruit (Season 2)
The Recruit (Season 2) has featured in 77 countries in the Top 10s. Data from July 2021 to February 2025.
Country
First Appearance
Last Appearance
Weeks in Top 10
Argentina
2025-02-09
2025-02-09
1
Australia
2025-02-02
2025-02-09
2
Austria
2025-02-02
2025-02-16
3
Bahamas
2025-02-02
2025-02-16
3
Bahrain
2025-02-02
2025-02-16
3
Bangladesh
2025-02-02
2025-02-16
3
Belgium
2025-02-02
2025-02-16
3
Brazil
2025-02-02
2025-02-09
2
Bulgaria
2025-02-02
2025-02-16
3
Canada
2025-02-02
2025-02-09
2
Colombia
2025-02-02
2025-02-02
1
Croatia
2025-02-02
2025-02-09
2
Cyprus
2025-02-02
2025-02-16
3
Czech Republic
2025-02-02
2025-02-16
3
Denmark
2025-02-02
2025-02-16
3
Dominican Republic
2025-02-02
2025-02-09
2
Egypt
2025-02-02
2025-02-23
4
Estonia
2025-02-02
2025-02-16
3
Finland
2025-02-02
2025-02-09
2
France
2025-02-02
2025-02-09
2
Germany
2025-02-02
2025-02-09
2
Greece
2025-02-02
2025-02-16
3
Guadeloupe
2025-02-09
2025-02-09
1
Guatemala
2025-02-09
2025-02-09
1
Honduras
2025-02-02
2025-02-09
2
Hungary
2025-02-02
2025-02-16
3
Iceland
2025-02-02
2025-02-16
3
India
2025-02-02
2025-02-16
3
Indonesia
2025-02-09
2025-02-09
1
Ireland
2025-02-02
2025-02-02
1
Israel
2025-02-02
2025-02-16
3
Italy
2025-02-02
2025-02-23
4
Jamaica
2025-02-02
2025-02-16
3
Jordan
2025-02-02
2025-02-23
4
Kenya
2025-02-02
2025-02-23
4
Kuwait
2025-02-02
2025-02-09
2
Latvia
2025-02-02
2025-02-09
2
Lebanon
2025-02-02
2025-02-23
4
Lithuania
2025-02-02
2025-02-16
3
Luxembourg
2025-02-02
2025-02-16
3
Maldives
2025-02-02
2025-02-16
3
Malta
2025-02-02
2025-02-16
3
Martinique
2025-02-02
2025-02-09
2
Mauritius
2025-02-02
2025-02-23
4
Morocco
2025-02-02
2025-02-23
4
Netherlands
2025-02-02
2025-02-16
3
New Caledonia
2025-02-02
2025-02-23
4
New Zealand
2025-02-02
2025-02-09
2
Nigeria
2025-02-02
2025-02-23
4
Norway
2025-02-02
2025-02-16
3
Oman
2025-02-02
2025-02-16
3
Pakistan
2025-02-02
2025-02-23
4
Panama
2025-02-02
2025-02-09
2
Paraguay
2025-02-02
2025-02-09
2
Poland
2025-02-02
2025-02-09
2
Portugal
2025-02-02
2025-02-16
3
Qatar
2025-02-02
2025-02-16
3
R?union
2025-02-02
2025-02-09
2
Romania
2025-02-02
2025-02-23
4
Saudi Arabia
2025-02-02
2025-02-16
3
Serbia
2025-02-02
2025-02-16
3
Singapore
2025-02-02
2025-02-09
2
Slovakia
2025-02-02
2025-02-16
3
Slovenia
2025-02-02
2025-02-16
3
South Africa
2025-02-02
2025-02-23
4
Spain
2025-02-02
2025-02-09
2
Sri Lanka
2025-02-02
2025-02-23
4
Sweden
2025-02-02
2025-02-16
3
Switzerland
2025-02-02
2025-02-23
4
Trinidad and Tobago
2025-02-02
2025-02-23
4
Turkey
2025-02-02
2025-02-16
3
Ukraine
2025-02-02
2025-02-23
4
United Arab Emirates
2025-02-02
2025-02-16
3
United Kingdom
2025-02-02
2025-02-09
2
United States
2025-02-02
2025-02-09
2
Uruguay
2025-02-09
2025-02-09
1
Venezuela
2025-02-02
2025-02-09
2
0–2 weeks
3–5 weeks
6–8 weeks
9–12 weeks
>12 weeks
Data unavailable / Didn't feature
How about other data sources? FlixPatrol data states that season 1 peaked in the top 10s with 770 points (if a title features in an individual country’s top 10, it picks up points depending on its position), whereas season 2 looks to have already peaked with 654 points. The show performs best on Netflix in the Nordics, Africa, Australia, and Southern and Eastern Europe. For Google Trends, we plotted The Night Agent (Red) against The Recruit (Blue), and it looks like The Recruit is seeing a decline slightly less here than The Night Agent, which has suffered a significant drop in viewership and interest.
Are you hoping Netflix gives the green light to The Recruit season 3? Let us know in the comments.
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