Category: Review

Emotional Intelligence by Matthew d’Ancona | Tortois Media  | December 8, 2022 The key text is supplied by aesthete Anthony Blanche in Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. “I took you out to dinner to warn you of charm,” he says to his old Oxford friend, Charles Ryder. “Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist…

“Lewis and Pearce Especially Share Phenomenal Chemistry” by Chris Connor | Yahoo! Entertainment  | December 8, 2022 A Spy Among Friends, the most high profile launch title for new UK streaming platform ITVX, retells the well-trodden story of the Cambridge Five. The spy ring — comprised of Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt,…

The Enigma and His Charismatic Traitor by Rebecca Nicholson | The Guardian  | December 8, 2022 ★★★☆☆ The story of the notorious MI6 agent and Soviet spy Kim Philby has been told numerous times before, but A Spy Among Friends (ITVX) has a fresh bash at it, using Ben Macintyre’s book of the same name…

A Spy Among Friends ITV Review: Four Stars by Dan Einav | Financial Times  | December 5, 2022 ★★★★☆ In the second world war, Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) had among their ranks one of the most successful spies in history. Trouble was, Harold “Kim” Philby was so adept at espionage that not only did…

“Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce Act Their Socks Off” by Joel Golby | The Guardian  | December 3, 2022 Double agents are everywhere. Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce act their socks off. But nobody knows what ITVX is – no matter what the secret service say. The thing with A Spy Among Friends is that…

“A Grown Up, Intelligent, Riveting Espionage Tale” by Benjie Goodhart | Saga Magazine  | December 2, 2022 A Spy Among Friends – Episode 1/6 – Thursday 8th December – ITVX On the basis of the first episode, A Spy Among Friends is well worth a look. The six-part drama series is based on Ben Macintyre’s…

Terrific Cast by Nick Curtis | Evening Standard | November 25, 2022 Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce do an awful lot of stiff-upper-lip acting in ITV’s new espionage drama A Spy Among Friends, the latest to explore the actions of the Cambridge Five, Soviet spies who were at the heart of the British Establishment from…