Down to Watch starts 2023 with some sneaky spy stuff from both sides of the pond with the two new Netflix streaming series, The Recruit, and Treason! Dan and Raul can't help but compare how the levels of haplessness the protags of each secretive show bring to their similar situations, measuring The Recruit's cast shoehorning comedy into a bouncy action-filled fish-out-of-water thriller with the writers of Treason introducing more than a few soap opera level stakes throughout what plays like a serious drama. Are either of these shows worth meeting in a smokey dark alley for the spy game goods, or is the audience being set up as the fall guy holding the bag? This pod knows the truth!