Ponies Is for the Besties
Vulture • • entertainment
Key Points:
- Ponies is a spy series set in 1970s Moscow, focusing on best friends Beatrice and Twila, who investigate the deaths of their CIA-agent husbands while navigating their own evolving friendship and espionage roles.
- The show excels in portraying the dynamic and affectionate friendship between Beatrice (Emilia Clarke) and Twila (Haley Lu Richardson), whose chemistry anchors the series despite a convoluted and implausible spy plot.
- While the series includes period-appropriate visual styles and feminist themes about women using societal underestimation to their advantage, its depiction of espionage is often unrealistic and reliant on contrivances and stereotypes.
- Ponies balances humor and drama, highlighting the tension between invisibility and visibility for women in a
