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  1. Aug 21, 2024 · By putting River and David Cartwright in the crosshairs, the acclaimed Apple TV+ spy drama becomes increasingly personal.

  2. Sep 4, 2024 · This series is based on Spook Street, the fourth in Mick Herron’s excellent series of novels about the misfit spies – aka the Slow Horses – MI6 have dumped in the dingy headquarters Slough ...

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  3. Aug 21, 2024 · Gary Oldman's Jackson Lamb returns for more subversive spy antics in Apple TV+ thriller series. Read the Empire review.

  4. Oct 9, 2024 · You bet he does, and “Slow Horses” has provided plenty of scenes emphasizing the older, wiser Jackson is still a better spy than his aspiring steed. But Season 4 twists that idea by taking...

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    • 10 The Assets
    • 9 Killing Eve
    • 8 The Spy
    • 7 Condor
    • 6 The Looming Tower
    • 5 Smiley's People
    • 4 The Night Manager
    • 3 The Little Drummer Girl
    • 2 Slow Horses
    • 1 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

    Rotten Tomatoes Scores: 56% Based on retired CIA officers Sandra Grimes and Jeanne Vertefeuille's book Circle of Treason: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed,The Assets follows Grimes (Jodie Whittaker) and Vertefeuille (Harriet Walter) as they tracked down Aldrich Ames (Paul Rhys), a mole who provided the Soviet Union with...

    Rotten Tomatoes Scores: 80% Based on the Villanelle novel series by Luke Jennings, Killing Eve centers on British intelligence agent Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh), who is charged with apprehending psychotic assassin Villanelle (Jodie Comer). The two gradually grow obsessed with each other as the chase goes on. In addition to being one of the crazily unp...

    Rotten Tomatoes Scores: 86% The Spy is based on Uri Dan and Yeshayahu Ben Porat's book L'espion qui venait d'Israël (The Spy Who Came from Israel) and based on the life of Israel's top Mossad spy Eli Cohen. The miniseries takes place in the years leading up to Israel and Syria's Six-Day War in 1967 and traces Cohen's (Sacha Baron Cohen) journey fro...

    Rotten Tomatoes Scores: 87% Based on James Grady's novel Six Days of the Condor and its 1975 film adaptation Three Days of the Condor, Condor follows Joe Turner (Max Irons), a young idealist who joins the CIA in the hopes of changing it for the better. He then discovers a covert scheme that poses a threat to the lives of millions. Joe is compelled ...

    Rotten Tomatoes Scores: 88% Based on the 2006 book of the same name by Lawrence Wright, The Looming Toweris a miniseries that follows agents from the FBI and CIA's counterterrorism departments, I-49 Squad in New York and Alec Station in Washington, D.C., as they traverse the globe arguing over information ownership while ostensibly attempting to st...

    Rotten Tomatoes Scores: 90% Adapted from the 1979 spy novel of the same name by John le Carré, and a sequel to the 1979 seven-part spy drama, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Smiley’s People continues to follow George Smiley (Alec Guinness) who is summoned out of retirement when one of his old assets, an émigré general, is found dead. Without compromisin...

    Rotten Tomatoes Scores: 91% Based on the 1993 novel of the same name by John le Carré, The Night Manager follows Jonathan Pine (Tom Hiddleston), a night manager at a five-star hotel in Cairo and a former British soldier, who is hired by Angela Burr (Olivia Colman), the head of a Foreign Office task team looking into shady arms deals, to join Richar...

    Rotten Tomatoes Scores: 95% Based on the 1983 novel of the same name by John le Carré, The Little Drummer Girl follows a young English actress, played by Florence Pugh, hired by Mossad to infiltrate the terrorist organization that a Palestinian assassin is using to attack famous Israelis. This mission requires all of her acting skills but also plac...

    Based on the Slough House novel series by Mick Herron, Slow Horses centers on Slough House which is an administrative hellhole for MI5 service rejects who messed up but weren't fired from their jobs, called Slow Horses. They are supposed to put up with tedious, paper-push jobs as well as the occasional verbal abuse from their wretched boss, Jackson...

    Rotten Tomatoes Scores: 100% Based on John le Carré's 1974 novel of the same name, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spyfollows George Smiley (Guinness), the deputy to the director of the British Secret Intelligence Agency, who is pushed into retirement in the wake of Operation Testify, a botched spy mission to Czechoslovakia. When Smiley discovers proof that ...

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  5. Mar 18, 2024 · From high-stakes missions to shadowy conspiracies, these book series offer an adrenaline-fueled escape into the clandestine world of spies, assassins, and intelligence operatives.

  6. Sep 4, 2024 · The hit espionage comedy Slow Horses continues to be the surest bet for first-rate entertainment in the Apple TV+ stable with a new series of slick, if frequently squalid, spycraft.

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