Spies of Warsaw

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Season 1
Metascore
64

Generally favorable reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
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Critic Reviews

  1. TV Guide Magazine
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    Apr 3, 2013
    80
    Throughout, Spies delivers the vicarious pleasures of old-fashioned spy movies with the bold contemporary frankness of the best of cable.
  2. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Glenn Garvin
    Apr 2, 2013
    80
    Durst’s books all offer the same engaging elements that the BBC makes such excellent use of in this two-part miniseries: The claustrophobic lifeboat atmosphere of a society teetering toward its doom.
  3. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Tirdad Derakhshani
    Apr 2, 2013
    80
    Spies of Warsaw is a deeply romantic, intricately plotted, and well-structured character study.
  5. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: David Wiegand
    Apr 2, 2013
    75
    Most of the performances are superb, beginning with Tennant, of course. He is so well cast and skilled that he's able to sustain credibility despite some of the gaps in the script.
  6. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    Apr 3, 2013
    70
    Director Coky Giedroyc leaves enough dramatic headroom that when forces draw together toward the end, with one last frontier to cross, he can deliver what feels like pulp-fiction thrills without getting loud or fancy.
  7. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Alessandra Stanley
    Apr 2, 2013
    70
    It’s an enjoyable, straightforward espionage tale without a lot of twists or extra layers.
  8. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    Apr 3, 2013
    60
    Spies of Warsaw starts off as a complex spy drama and feels like it finishes as a less complex romance drama.
  9. RedEye
    Reviewed by: Curt Wagner
    Apr 2, 2013
    50
    Despite its historic gravitas and scrupulous attention to period detail, Spies of Warsaw never really ignites.
  10. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    Apr 2, 2013
    40
    The story wanders slowly and aimlessly when it should be tumbling toward a climax. It’s a ride on flat terrain.
  11. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    Mar 25, 2013
    40
    The cloak-and-dagger stuff, however, proves terribly mild, and the romance stiff and hackneyed.