Author: Gingersnap
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Loyalty and Affection is Threatened in A Spy Among Friends
A Show That Makes You Question All Your Relationships by Mark Kennedy | Washington Post | March 10, 2023 NEW YORK (AP) — A main character in “A Spy Among Friends†is one of the Soviet Union’s most notorious double agents. But you don’t need to know anything about him — or really about spying…
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MGM+’s A Spy Among Friends Is a Patient, Magisterial Addition to the Spy Pantheon
A Tremendous Restraint and Delicacy to Lewis’ Performance by Shane Ryan | Paste Magazine | March 10, 2023 If you are, like me, intermittently obsessed with the business of espionage, the name Kim Philby holds a sort of ineffable mystique in the darkest corners of your brain. Philby was the most notorious of the Cambridge…
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A Spy Among Friends Review: Guy Pearce as Kim Philby
A Nuanced, Finely Acted Cold War Series on MGM+ by John Anderson | Wall Street Journal | March 9, 2023 The six-part espionage drama “A Spy Among Friends†opens with a well-known quote from novelist E.M. Forster, which blooms enigmatic as the series rolls out: “If I had to choose between betraying my country and…
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A Spy Among Friends Review: An Elegant Cold War Thriller
A Talky Espionage Caper by Manuel Betancourt | AV Club | March 8, 2023 The title for A Spy Among Friends, last year’s British thriller that makes its MGM+ premiere on March 12, intentionally flirts with the glaring tension its narrative rests on. The spy genre, after all, depends on a timeless mantra—“trust no oneâ€â€”that…
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How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend?
Jazzy Spy Craft by Staff | New York Times | March 9, 2023 A Spy Among Friends begins Sunday on MGM+. The personal is political in this juicy period drama, based on a true story about two British spies (played by Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce) who form an intimate friendship over decades – except…
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A Night With Damian Lewis at Hoxton Hall
Intimate Performance at Arts Theatre and Community Centre by Gingersnap | damian-lewis.com | March 3, 2023 After selling out his first two London shows, Damian Lewis returned to the stage for another music gig at Hoxton Hall on Friday, March 3, 2023 at 7:30 p.m. in the Hoxton area of Shoreditch, London Borough of Hackney,…
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In A Spy Among Friends, B.F.F. Betrayal at an International Level
A Twisty MGM+ Series by Roslyn Sulcas | New York Times | March 3, 2023 A twisty MGM+ series tells the story of Kim Philby, a British agent secretly working for the Soviet Union, and Nicholas Elliott, his closest friend. Stream beginning March 12. “Why wasn’t he in custody?†asks the MI5 officer Lily Thomas.…
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Damian Lewis and Alison Mosshart on the Streets of New York
Casual Stroll by Gingersnap | damian-lewis.com | February 28, 2023 Damian and Alison were spotted again on the streets of New York City on Tuesday, February 28, 2023 after an earlier taping of The Tonight Show with Stephen Colbert and the MGM+ A Spy Among Friends New York premiere on Monday. We love that their…