A Spy Among Friends

Season 1 · Episode 1

IMDb6.5

Released: 12/8/2022
Duration: 0h 57m
Genre: War & Politics, Drama
Country: United Kingdom
Cast: Guy Pearce, Damian Lewis, Anna Maxwell Martin

Overview

Follow the defection of notorious British intelligence officer and KGB double agent, Kim Philby, through the lens of his complex relationship with MI6 colleague and close friend, Nicholas Elliott.

Episodes

EP 1AvailableNow playing

Boom-Ooh-Yatatatah

55m·12/8/2022·6.5

In the wake of Kim Philby’s escape to Moscow, his closest friend in Britain’s Secret Service, Nicholas Elliott, is under investigation.

EP 2Available

The Admiral's Glass

60m·12/8/2022·6.1

Investigator Lily Thomas understands that Elliott is never going to divulge anything of value in a conventional interrogation process so she manipulates him.

EP 3Available

Allegory of the Catholic Faith

53m·12/8/2022·6.4

Philby begins to understand that the KGB can never fully trust him now that he’s in Moscow, and as far as they’re concerned, his life as a spy for them is over.

EP 4Available

Vodka

54m·12/8/2022·6.1

Elliott rattles Blunt’s cage to make him panic and then follows him to a clandestine meeting in the middle of the night.

EP 5Available

Snow

51m·12/8/2022·6.1

Elliott and Lily fear that no one can be trusted. They must get to Blunt before anyone else to interrogate him and confirm their suspicions.

EP 6Available

No Man's Land

57m·12/8/2022·6.3

Lily has forced Elliot to remember more than he perhaps ever wanted to about Philby. Months later, Elliott receives a letter from Philby asking for a meeting in an East Berlin bar.