HIGHLY highly recommend The Bureau, which is the most real spy show I have ever watched. The Americans is excellent (i've watched all of it) but has some unreal TV-like drama that The Bureau is able to avoid and is imo the pinnacle of spy genre. George Clooney is apparently making an American remake of The Bureau (which is in French).
Couldn't agree more, The Bureau had me hooked from start to finish.
After the first episode, I basically binge-watched the entire 5 seasons non-stop.
Subtitles are not an issue for me as I always have them on anyway.
It takes a couple of episodes to get into it as they don't do out of their way to explain things. It's like you've been dropped into a job with an intelligence service with no training.
"Tehran" (Israeli spy thriller) is another really good spy series.
You really get a feel for the oppressive environment in Iran under the thumb of the IRGC.
Also "The Spy" with Sascha Baron Cohen is excellent too.
