
TV: Tehran (Season 2)
While Apple’s Israeli-produced, Iran-set thriller Tehran is by no means as impressive as its hit spy series Slow Horses,…
January 9, 2023While Apple’s Israeli-produced, Iran-set thriller Tehran is by no means as impressive as its hit spy series Slow Horses,…
January 9, 2023Say what you will about its logistical verisimilitude, it’s refreshing to see a spy series both produced by and…
March 24, 2022Berlin Station launched with a bang, a complex, gripping spy drama that played out like a rich, multifaceted novel.…
July 4, 2020Oh, Veep. What hath thou wrought? (Or something.) Back in the LA days, when we had HBO, I started…
May 7, 2020There’s nothing top secret about my mission to watch every great spy show ever made. I’ve logged many, many…
April 20, 2020The Netflix original series Queen Sono doesn’t exactly reinvent the spy thriller, but it does something else important: it…
March 21, 2020For some reason, Cleanskin (2012) feels ancient, even though it only came out seven years ago. That says more…
December 29, 2019Australia’s Pine Gap is the kind of spy show I would have utterly fallen in love with…about fifteen years…
February 12, 2019Although it probably seems like it, I’m not contractually obligated to watch every spy show ever made — it’s…
October 2, 2018After a peculiar but satisfying first season, Israeli spy series Mossad 101 reinvents itself for its second year, with…
September 14, 2018Oh, Homeland, you exasperating motherfucker. Season four of Showtime’s prestige spy drama is a much-needed, overdue reinvention of the…
October 8, 2016My immediate impression of the pilot of Quantico: not bad, but is it sustainable? Short answer: nope. Indeed, while…
July 10, 2016I went way off the board looking for a movie to watch this weekend, and found That Man from Rio (1964),…
March 28, 2016Anyone who reads this blog knows I’m an unreserved fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but for the first…
April 20, 2015Sad to say, I think the new reality of the Internet Age has rather taken the teeth out of the conspiracy…
April 14, 2015