X Company (Seasons 1–3)

X Company (2015) is a Canadian WWII drama you can watch online on iFILM. Five recruits — pulled from Canada, the United States and Britain — are trained at a clandestine facility on the shores of Lake Ontario and then dropped into occupied France, where there is no paperwork that can save you if you are caught.

One of them, Alfred Graeves, has synesthesia: he absorbs and recalls every detail he encounters with perfect accuracy, which makes him the unit's most valuable — and most exploitable — asset. The cast, led by Evelyne Brochu, Jack Laskey and Warren Brown, keeps the focus on what covert work costs the people doing it, not just on the operations themselves.

The series draws partly on the history of the real Camp X in Ontario, where SOE and OSS agents were trained beginning in 1941. What makes it stick is the tension between the agents' extraordinary skills and their very ordinary vulnerability. Stream all seasons of X Company (2015) online on iFILM.