The Night Clerk

The Night Clerk has quietly become one of the more dependable crime dramas currently available in the US on fuboTV and Paramount Plus Essential. The length is exactly right for the story it is telling — nothing rushed, nothing dragged out. With 911 viewer ratings on TMDB, this is not a title flying under the radar. Tye Sheridan anchors it, but the writing does the real work. There is no real reason to keep putting it off — it is right there on fuboTV.

The Night Clerk is not trying to be everything to everyone, and that focus is exactly what makes it work. The plotting gives The Night Clerk its backbone, but it is the characters you come back for. Hotel night clerk Bart Bromley is a highly intelligent young man on the Autism spectrum. When a woman is murdered during his shift, Bart becomes the prime suspect. As the police investigation closes in, Bart makes a personal connection with a beautiful guest named Andrea, but soon realises he must stop the real murderer before she becomes the next victim. Tye Sheridan and Ana de Armas lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was released in 2020. The Night Clerk is at its best in the quiet scenes between the plot beats, where the character work actually happens. It knows exactly what it is, and does not try to be anything else.

Crime and mystery fans will find exactly what they are after in The Night Clerk. It rewards viewers regardless of what else is in their watch history. It is a manageable watch, easy to fit into a single evening. Watch Tye Sheridan work — it is a masterclass in the genre. Few crime dramas earn their twists this consistently.