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A Spy Among Friends (TV Miniseries)

A Spy Among Friends

2022

Nick Murphy

Guy Pearce, Damian Lewis, Anna Maxwell Martin, Adrian Edmondson ...

6.1

241

TV Series. Drama. Thriller In England in 1963, Nicholas Elliott (Lewis) works for MI6 as an intelligence officer but is left in turmoil when he learns his close friend and colleague Kim Philby (Pearce) had been secretly working as a double agent for the KGB and has defected to the Soviet Union. Based on the New York Times best-selling book written by Ben Macintyre.

	Author	Review
United States	Daniel D'Addario Variety	"It's a role Lewis plays beautifully —and one whose enigmatic qualities speak to the eternal power of spy stories"	POS
United States	Emma Fraser The Playlist	"The three central performances from Maxwell Martin, Lewis, and Pearce hold it together, and this spy —and friendship— story is anything but by the book"	POS
United Kingdom	Nick Curtis London Evening Standard	"Terrific cast, disappointing material (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Jasper Rees Telegraph	"A cerebral and fiendish remix of the Kim Philby tale. Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce are magnificent in a satisfyingly complex drama which focuses on Philby's escape to Beirut in 1963 (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Rebecca Nicholson The Guardian	"This is all very fine and elegant, but it's lacking in charisma (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Manuel Betancourt AV Club	"An elegant Cold War thriller"	POS
United States	Cristina Escobar rogerebert.com	"[It] has strong storytelling, but lacks in originality"	NEU
United States	Shane Ryan Paste Magazine	"Despite diverging from reality, the important truth 'A Spy Among Friends' gets right is the complications that plague even matters as serious as betrayal"	POS
Australia	Craig Mathieson The Age	"Few shows have made hypocrisy so compelling (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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