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‘Ponies’ elevates a Cold War spy story with emotional depth and female friendship
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Despite its equestrian-themed title, misfit-spies motif and occasional reference to “Moscow rules,” Peacock’s new espionage thriller “Ponies” has little in common with Apple TV+‘s “Slow Horses.” Set in Cold War Moscow, “Ponies” falls, intriguingly and occasionally uneasily, somewhere between FX’s “The Americans” and underappreciated female-empowerment comedy film “The Spy Who Dumped Me.”
Which is not surprising since it was created by Susanna Fogel and David Iserson, co-writers of “The Spy Who Dumped Me,” which the former directed and the latter executive produced.
Opening with an attempt to extract a CIA asset from the clutches of the KGB, the series centers around Moscow’s American Embassy circa 1977 (with a soundtrack and brief glimpses of a young George H.W. Bush and, later, Elton John, to prove it).
Ponies Is for the Besties
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Beatrice and Twila do the things all best friends do. They split a bottle of wine and complain about their jobs. They swap recipe ideas and go shopping. They pose galaxy-brained hypotheticals to each other, like whether they’d fuck a guy they hated if it meant stopping a nuclear war. Except that’s not a hypothetical, and the guy is a KGB agent they encounter while investigating the deaths of their CIA-agent husbands in 1970s Moscow. Twila (Haley Lu Richardson) encourages Beatrice (Emilia Clarke) to wear new lingerie to seduce the KGB agent, assuring Beatrice he’ll like it because it’s “red, for communism!” This is not nuanced dialogue, and Ponies is not nuanced in its worldview, nor is it a coherent spy show. It is, however, a gratifying best-friends show.
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Ponies
Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson are US secretaries working in Moscow who suddenly become CIA operatives. Friday on Binge (Showcase 8.30pm).
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