FAVORITE CABLE & TV SPY SERIES SHOWS

Vanity | 06-15-2019 | Captain Peter Blood

[Captain Peter Blood]

Of late I have been watching what I consider to be some pretty good spy shows. So I am going to list them.

I have ROKU and most of these I found available on streaming channels.

Epix Channel:

Here is found two really good shows worth watching:

"Berlin Station" series set in modern Berlin of the CIA station there.

"Deep State": Modern day spy series set in the U.S., England, and the Middle East. The plot is pretty believable and concerns the Military Industrial Complex.

On Showtime I have been binge watching "Homeland". Great show and plot, I have just finished watching the first two seasons and have been riveted. It is my understanding the last couple of seasons got a little to PC and such.

On Amazon I found a real jewel called "The Game". It is a period spy series set in the 1970's England and concerns a hunt for a mole in MI5. The actors are great and story very well done.

There is another one I found on Amazon to buy called "Counterpart" that is on the Starz channel. It's about a hapless UN employee who discovers the agency he works for is hiding a gateway to a parallel dimension that's in Cold War with our own, and where his other self is a top spy. The war slowly heats up thanks to spies from both sides.

[Kazan]

Season six is the last season I watched. The strange thing is that the female President was supposed to be Hillary and someone that will fight Deep State corruption. But, after Trump won, the writers make her into a villain and, of course, the entertainment media compares her to Trump.

The show also becomes vehemently anti-Israel.

[Zhang Fei]

[I think the best TV spy drama’s ever were the early 80’s BBC produced “Smiley’s People” and “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”. Both of these masterpieces were 6 part miniseries staring Sir Alec Guiness as George Smiley.]

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I loved both series. The books themselves are also excellent. David Cornwell aka John le Carre can write. Pretty amazing that three Cornwells are best-selling authors, although Patricia is only a Cornwell by injection. Bernard Cornwell has written a lot of entertaining historical fiction.

[ralph rotten]

SOME HOW EVEREONE MISSED “JOHN LE CARRE A GREAT SPY STORY
“ THE NIGHT MANAGER” THE BEST IN ABOUT 2 years
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ralph rotten

[weston]

Season 1 of Prime’s Jack Ryan was good.
Looking forward to season 2.
Also liked The Widow with Kate Beckensale.