A Spy Among Friends

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Season 1
  • Network: ITV , MGM+
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 12, 2023
Metascore
74

Generally favorable reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9

Critic Reviews

  1. RogerEbert.com
    Reviewed by: Cristina Escobar
    Mar 9, 2023
    60
    As well-told as it is here, I'm not so sure it needs to be told again in the first place.
  2. i
    Reviewed by: Ed Power
    Dec 8, 2022
    60
    Despite the accent, Mawell Martin is great, as are Pearce and Lewis. It’s just a pity that A Spy Among Friends takes so long to get going. A potentially gripping story loses its way in the kitchen sink gloom.
  3. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Rebecca Nicholson
    Dec 8, 2022
    60
    Perhaps it suffers from an unfortunate comparison with another recent series adapted from a Macintyre book, SAS Rogue Heroes, which channels its fascinating history lesson into something far more vivacious and entertaining. This is all very fine and elegant, but it’s lacking in charisma.
  5. The Independent
    Reviewed by: Nick Hilton
    Dec 8, 2022
    60
    The story of Philby and the Cambridge spy ring is one of the most fascinating tales of 20th-century British history (or, as it’s now known, the Ben Macintyre Cinematic Universe). It’s a shame, then, that the questions of class, capitalism and clemency, innate to the tale, are subordinated to easy moral signposting.