8.047 minSeason 3 • Episode 8
LatestAs Scorpia orchestrates the final stages of their plan to threaten the lives of an entire city, Alex must go back undercover in a desperate bid to stop Julia Rothman before it's too late.
Alex Rider is an ordinary teenager enlisted to work on behalf of MI6, where he uses skills he didn't know he had to become an extraordinary spy.
Acting
Otto Farrant carries impossible weight like it's nothing.
Production
Locations actually look expensive, rare for YA.
Writing
Guy Burt respects teen intelligence, finally.
Creator
Guy Burt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Anthony Horowitz wrote the Alex Rider novels after realizing James Bond had no emotional stakes; he wanted a spy who could actually get hurt.
The series updates Point Blanc's original 2001 cloning plot to target tech billionaires' children, accidentally predicting 2020s anxieties about inherited power.
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