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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...
Spy City and the adventures of Fielding Scott continue to move forward, but what it's moving towards isn't clear as of yet. Is this a traditional spy thriller, or just an out-and-out conspiracy series?
S1.E1 ∙ Codename Beethoven. Berlin, 1961: Fielding Scott, a disgraced MI6 agent, is given a chance to rehabilitate. He is supposed to organize the defection of an East German scientist who has made an explosive discovery. The operation fails, the deserter is murdered.
Apr 14, 2021 · “Spy City” argues that every international power has blood on its hands regarding their meddling in other countries and their own selfish self-interest, but the execution of that messaging is so rushed in the series finale that it becomes practically ineffectual.
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Spy City: With Dominic Cooper, Romane Portail, Leonie Benesch, Johanna Wokalek. An English spy is sent to Berlin in 1961 to sift out a traitor in the UK Embassy or among the Allies, shortly before the construction of the Berlin Wall.
