Spies, Television
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, 2023-
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Spies, TelevisionTV: Queen Sono (Season 1)
The Netflix original series Queen Sono doesn’t exactly reinvent the spy thriller, but it does something else important: it…
March 21, 2020 -
Spies, TelevisionEvery Episode of Mission: Impossible, Ranked
It’s probably blasphemy for a science fiction writer to admit this, but I’ve never been a Star Trek fan. While many…
February 4, 2015 -
Spies, TelevisionTV: The Americans (Season 1)
It took me a long time to finish season one of The Americans, FX’s period spy drama about Russian…
August 11, 2014 -
Spies, TelevisionGood Evening, Mr. Phelps
Back in the 1980s, I didn’t much like television. There were kitschy, fun shows from the sixties and seventies…
March 19, 2010 -
Film, Spies, Spy 100 Project, ThrillerSpy 100, #98: La Femme Nikita
La Femme Nikita(1990) is more style than substance, a dark, slick French adventure starring Anne Parillaud as Nikita, a…
January 9, 2010