Category: Review
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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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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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A Spy Among Friends Cast Previews the Real-Life “Brilliantly Interesting” Friendship
Preview: Riveting Cat-and-Mouse Conversations by Kate Hahn | TV Insider | February 24, 2023 If you learned your closest friend was a spy, would you help him evade justice? That’s the looming question in A Spy Among Friends, a slow-burn adaptation of Ben Macintyre’s nonfiction bestseller about an infamous U.K. traitor. The limited series opens…
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A Spy Among Friends Dramatizes The Treachery of Kim Philby
“All the Thrills, Intrigue and Skulduggery of its Source Material” by Staff | The Economist | December 14, 2022 “If i had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friends,†E.M. Forster wrote in 1938, “I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.†The English author’s words are used as…
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REVIEW: TV – A Spy Among Friends
Superb Cast and Top Drawer Script by Alison Rowat | Herald Scotland | December 10, 2022 When the TV adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy appeared in 1979 it was judged unsurpassable in its field. Alec Guinness as George Smiley? Only a fool would try to match that. Then came the 2011 film with Gary…