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Spy City is a spy thriller television miniseries created by William Boyd about spies in 1961 Berlin, during the Cold War. The series first aired in Germany, and AMC+ picked up the rights to stream in the United States at MIPTV.
- British actor Dominic Cooper worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company but he just can’t get enough of spy thrillers. In addition to playing an MI6 agent in Spy City (above) he starred as a naval spy in Stratton: “I loved learning how to drive the speedboats.
- Fielding Scott’s past soon catches up with him in Spy City. In the first episode, we learn that our hero is hunting a traitor. Is it his former French lover Severine Bloch (Romane Portail, above) who he abandoned and tricked into thinking he was dead?
- Scott and American CIA agent Conrad Greer (Seumas F. Sargent) served during World War II, but that was long ago. “The new world order might not quite align the same way,” Scott muses at one point.
- Spy City is an original work by William Boyd, the award-winning novelist and playwright who wrote the James Bond continuation novel Solo, so it’s no coincidence that Dominic Cooper channels his gun-wielding Bond best as MI6 agent Fielding Scott.
Spy City is a sort of compromise between a smart le Carré dramatisation and a knockabout Bond caper. It works because it means you can keep up with all the twists and it’s more involving than a...
- Sean O'grady
Apr 12, 2021 · The mid-section of the season drags a bit when it feels like “Spy City” has a few too many characters and subplots around episode three, but it recovers nicely about halfway through Episode 4 and then barrels through to an ending that answers most of the questions of the season while finding an elegiac note to hit at the same time.
- Brian Tallerico
Jan 30, 2022 · In 1961, before the construction of the Berlin Wall, an English spy is sent to this city teeming with spies and double agents, to uncover a traitor among the American, British and French allies, who are separated from their Soviet and East German counterparts by nothing more than an imaginary line. Show Details:
Apr 15, 2021 · Similarly, the plot moves with such urgency that a few side stories seem to skip from point A to C, with barely a nod at what happened at point B to speed us to the dramatic conclusion.
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Apr 14, 2021 · The finale of “Spy City” is bookended by Fielding sarcastically saying, “I thought we were fighting for our values,” and a concluding freeze frame that transitions from color to black and white; perhaps this is meant to be sobering, but it really reads as cynical.
