TV’s Best New Spy Drama Has A 92% Rotten Tomatoes Score
Forbes • • entertainment
Key Points:
- Emilia Clarke criticizes the disappointing finale of her Game of Thrones character in a recent New York Times interview but mainly promotes her new Peacock series, Ponies, which has received strong critical acclaim with a 92% Rotten Tomatoes score.
- Ponies, co-created by David Iserson and Susanna Fogel, is an eight-episode series set in 1977 Moscow about two American Embassy secretaries who uncover a conspiracy after their husbands die mysteriously, starring Clarke alongside Haley Lu Richardson.
- This series marks Clarke’s most prominent role since the poorly received 2023 MCU series Secret Invasion, while Richardson continues to rise in prominence following her acclaimed work in The White Lotus and other films.
- Critics praise the chemistry between Clarke and Richardson,
