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2026

Drama
Comedy

Summary

In 1977, two secretaries working at the US embassy in Moscow become CIA operatives after their secret agent husbands die under mysterious circumstances. Spy thriller, starring Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson.

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Review

Jack Seale

Moscow in the late 1970s is the setting for a comedy drama that’s clearly been inspired by The Americans, but gives the idea of secret agents hiding in plain sight more than one smart twist.

As well as taking place in a handsomely realised Soviet Union – with its chilly market squares full of chain-smoking men and fierce women in frightening hats – where the staff of the US embassy are all CIA spies, it finds two unlikely heroes in conscientious Bea (Emilia Clarke) and cynical, loudmouthed Twila (Haley Lu Richardson). They went to Russia as the wives of spies but, when they become the widows of spies, they are stuck for something to do – so become spies themselves.

It’s more comedy than drama, droll and offbeat without going for big belly laughs – as yet there’s not a huge amount of espionage action, either, but Bea and Twila are just getting going. Without much training but with a lot more common sense than the menfolk in their lives ever had, they are what are known in the business as Persons of No Interest. But can they stay under the radar?

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7.1/10

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rolenameBeatrice GrantEmilia ClarkeTwila HasbeckHaley Lu RichardsonDane WalterAdrian LesterAndrei VasilievArtjom GilzCheryl SymanskiVic MichaelisRay SymanskiNicholas PodanySasha ShevchenkoPetro NinovskyiShepAndrew RichardsonChris GrantLouis BoyerIvannaLili Walters