The transition to streaming has made access to content easier than it has ever been. Streaming platforms boast libraries that contain a vast array of movies, TV shows and other content that might pick one’s interest. A fan-favorite genre remains action thrillers and there is no shortage of such content within the streaming landscape right now. Netflix, with over 300 million subscribers, opted to offer movie and TV fans plenty to feast on this year, and rightly so. One of the most successful films of the year for Netflix, without question, has been The Rip, the crime thriller starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck as Miami narcotics officers. Despite earning over 130 million views, The Rip is still not as successful as the sci-fi thriller, War Machine (starring Alan Ritchson).
It has been a hectic year for the streamer, as the platform has pushed out even more equally engrossing TV shows to compete with its stellar movie lineup. The release of some intensely bingeable TV shows like the limited series, His & Hers (starring Jon Bernthal and Tessa Thompson), new seasons of The Lincoln Lawyer and Bridgerton, among others, signaled a streaming platform only focused on picking up the pace. Another is the hit spy thriller The Night Agent, which is about to enter its fourth and final season. Only time will tell what project emerges as the biggest Netflix movie or TV show of 2026. But for right now, as some projects fade into the background, previously forgotten shows are returning to the limelight.
At the end of 2024, December 3 to be precise, Netflix debuted all episodes of Black Doves, the Keira Knightley-led spy thriller that also stars Ben Whishaw on its platform. Upon its premiere, the pulse-pounding espionage thriller spent weeks atop streaming charts, which made the decision to renew it for a second season a straightforward one. The show takes on elements of James Bond‘s global espionage and the intense, bone-crunching combat guaranteed for fans of Reacher and blends it into one perfect brew. After some time away from the spotlight, production on Black Doves Season 2 kicked off late last year, and although there is no official confirmation from Netflix, the series is reportedly expected to return sometime in the winter of 2026 or early 2027, according to What’s on Netflix.
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Collider Exclusive · James Bond Personality Quiz Which James Bond Actor Are You Most Like? Connery · Moore · Dalton · Brosnan · Lazenby · Craig
Six actors. Six completely different visions of the same man — dangerous, charming, complicated, and almost certainly wearing a very good suit. Only one of them shares your particular way of moving through the world. Eight questions will figure out which Bond you really are.
🏴Connery
😄Moore
🎭Dalton
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✨Brosnan
🤵Lazenby
💠Craig
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How do you carry yourself when you walk into a room? Bond is always the most interesting person in the room. The question is how he makes you feel it.
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How do you handle a dangerous situation? Every Bond faces it differently. What does your version look like?
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How do you charm someone you need on your side? Bond always gets what he needs. The method varies considerably.
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How do you handle your emotions on the job? Every Bond deals with this differently. Most of them not particularly well.
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How would your colleagues describe your working style? MI6 has opinions about all of its 00s. What are theirs about you?
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How do you feel about operating within the rules? The licence to kill comes with terms and conditions. Not everyone reads them.
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What is your relationship with love? Every Bond has a different answer. None of them have found it easy.
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When the mission is over, how do you want to be remembered? The name is Bond. The rest is entirely up to the man behind it.
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The Name Has Been Determined Your Bond Is…
Six actors. One role. Your answers point to the Bond who shares your presence, your method, and your particular way of carrying the weight of being the most dangerous person in the room.
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Dr. No — You Only Live Twice · 1962–1967
Sean Connery
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You are the original — and you carry that fact without needing to announce it. There is an authority in the way you occupy a room that others spend careers trying to replicate.
You don’t explain yourself, justify yourself, or soften yourself for anyone’s comfort. The confidence is structural, not performed.
Connery’s Bond established everything — the tone, the danger, the cool — because Connery himself had the innate presence to make something that had never existed feel inevitable.
You share that quality: the sense that you were always going to end up exactly here, doing exactly this.
The name is Bond. In your case, it always was.
Live and Let Die — A View to a Kill · 1973–1985
Roger Moore
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You understand something that more serious people miss: that wit is its own form of intelligence, and that making people laugh is not a retreat from danger but a way of mastering it.
Moore’s Bond is underrated precisely because the effortlessness looks easy — and effortlessness is the hardest thing to manufacture.
You have the same quality: a lightness that disarms people before they realise how sharp you actually are.
The raised eyebrow, the perfectly timed quip, the refusal to be rattled — these are not affectations. They are a philosophy about how to move through a world that would like to take itself too seriously.
You have never let it.
The Living Daylights · Licence to Kill · 1987–1989
Timothy Dalton
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You took the role seriously when everyone wanted you to coast — and that refusal to take the easy version of anything is the most defining thing about you.
Dalton’s Bond has genuine moral weight: he feels the cost of what he does, he has lines he won’t cross, and he is not interested in the version of himself that pretends otherwise.
You share that intensity. You push harder than the situation technically requires, because you have a standard and you hold yourself to it.
He was ahead of his time — the Bond the franchise wasn’t quite ready for yet, arriving exactly when he was meant to.
You know what that feels like.
GoldenEye — Die Another Day · 1995–2002
Pierce Brosnan
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You are the complete package — and you know it, which is part of what makes you so effective and occasionally so infuriating to the people around you.
Brosnan arrived at the role looking exactly like Bond was supposed to look, and he delivered on that expectation with a professionalism that made it seem effortless.
You have the same quality: a smooth competence, a charm that operates like a precision instrument, and the ability to make even difficult things look like they weren’t.
His era was the most commercially successful in the franchise’s history. There is a reason for that.
The reason is that some people simply fit their moment perfectly. You are one of those people.
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service · 1969
George Lazenby
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You stepped into something enormous with less preparation than anyone around you thought was sufficient — and you delivered something genuine anyway, which is the more impressive achievement.
Lazenby’s single outing is, by many measures, one of the finest Bond films ever made — and he is not a small part of why.
You share his quality of raw authenticity: less polished than the alternatives, more honest for it, capable of something real that technique alone can’t produce.
He was underestimated, and then he wasn’t, and then history caught up with him.
You are the kind of person history catches up with. Give it time.
Casino Royale — No Time to Die · 2006–2021
Daniel Craig
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You stripped everything back and found what was underneath — and what was underneath was harder, more honest, and more human than anyone expected.
Craig’s Bond is the franchise’s most psychologically complete: a man doing a brutal job, carrying its costs imperfectly, capable of love and loss in ways that can’t be dismissed.
You share that depth. You don’t hide behind the role or the charm or the suit — you let the work show what it actually costs.
He was controversial from the moment he was announced and definitive by the time he was finished. The sceptics became the believers.
That arc — of being underestimated and then undeniable — is one you know intimately.
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Who Returns for ‘Black Doves’ Season 2?
With scores of 91% from critics and 65% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, Black Doves is led by Knightley, who plays a spy who is also the wife of the British Defence Secretary. The attempt on her life and that of her husband (Andrew Buchan) sucks her back into a world she thought she’d left behind. Now, Helen and Whishaw’s Sam, former colleagues, seek out those trying to take them out. Season 2 will see numerous stars from the first season return, including Kathryn Hunter (The Front Room), Gabrielle Creevy (The Guest), Ella Lily Hyland (Silent Roar), Molly Chesworth (Call the Midwife), and Agnes O’Casey (The Miracle Club). Sarah Lancashire returns as Mrs. Reed even as new faces join the cast.
Black Doves was written and created for TV by Joe Barton, who also wrote the script for the 2024 Netflix movie starring Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry, The Union. Knightley and Barton executive produce the series, alongside SISTER’s Jane Featherstone and Chris Fry.
Stay tuned to Collider for more about the Season 2 return of Black Doves, and stream Season 1 on Netflix.
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