A Spy Among Friends (2022)
One of their own has done the unthinkable.
Follow the defection of notorious British intelligence officer and KGB double agent, Kim Philby, through the lens of his complex relationship with MI6 colleague and close friend, Nicholas Elliott.
A Spy Among Friends: Season 1 - 6 Episode s
1x1 - Boom-Ooh-Yatatatah
December 8, 2022
In the wake of Kim Philby’s escape to Moscow, his closest friend in Britain’s Secret Service, Nicholas Elliott, is under investigation.
1x2 - The Admiral's Glass
December 8, 2022
Investigator Lily Thomas understands that Elliott is never going to divulge anything of value in a conventional interrogation process so she manipulates him.
1x3 - Allegory of the Catholic Faith
December 8, 2022
Philby begins to understand that the KGB can never fully trust him now that he’s in Moscow, and as far as they’re concerned, his life as a spy for them is over.
1x4 - Vodka
December 8, 2022
Elliott rattles Blunt’s cage to make him panic and then follows him to a clandestine meeting in the middle of the night.
1x5 - Snow
December 8, 2022
Elliott and Lily fear that no one can be trusted. They must get to Blunt before anyone else to interrogate him and confirm their suspicions.
1x6 - No Man's Land
December 8, 2022
Lily has forced Elliot to remember more than he perhaps ever wanted to about Philby. Months later, Elliott receives a letter from Philby asking for a meeting in an East Berlin bar.
A Spy Among Friends: 1 Season
Actors in A Spy Among Friends
Guy Pearce
Kim Philby
Damian Lewis
Nicholas Elliott
Anna Maxwell Martin
Lily Thomas
Stephen Kunken
James Jesus Angelton
Karel Roden
Sergei
Adrian Edmondson
Sir Roger Hollis
Nicholas Rowe
Sir Anthony Blunt
Monika Gossmann
Galina
Lucy Russell
Jane Sissmore
Lucy Akhurst
Elizabeth Elliott
Anastasia Hille
Flora Solomon
Jennifer Marsala
Iris
Gershwyn Eustache Jnr
Dr. Robert Thomas
Steven Elder
Tim Milne
Thomas Arnold
Guy Burgess
Alexander Terentyev
Orchis
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