How many episodes are in Honey?

Honey has 6 episodes in this listed season.

Is Honey a new series?

Honey is a new series (Season 1).

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Honey(2026)

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6 episodesSeason 1

RomanceThrillerEspionageCrime

Premieres 14 Nov 2026

What to Expect

Honey mixes deep-cover suspense with romance that makes concealment harder, not easier. Marta’s need to avoid detection gives desire a dangerous edge: attraction is no escape from her assignment, but another way it can go wrong. The mood is charged and watchful, with the threat of exposure running alongside the pull of intimacy.

Friedrich Bauman and Aaron Neeland bring different pressures into Marta’s life. Friedrich’s job makes him precisely the man she needs to evade, while Aaron’s recklessness and arrogance complicate the other side of the triangle. Against East Berlin in 1982, those entanglements turn an already dangerous assignment into a conflict between professional caution and personal desire.

Official premise

In 1982, MI6 deep cover agent Marta must evade detection by Friedrich Bauman, the Stasi's new Counter Espionage chief, while operating in hostile territory during the Cold War.

What to watch next

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Betrayal

Hulu · ITV1 • 4 Aug 2026

CrimeMystery

A veteran MI5 officer who helped prevent major terrorist plots now faces a changed workplace and evolving threats to national security. Married with two children, he must adapt to new professional values while managing growing pressures at home and in the field.

Why it fits

Honey makes every secret feel dangerous, and Betrayal brings that same tense spycraft into a marriage and a modern workplace. Where Marta risks exposure in East Berlin, a veteran MI5 officer faces an assassination conspiracy that threatens his job and family, giving the suspense a more domestic edge.

Ponies

Peacock • 15 Jan 2026

DramaThriller

Moscow, 1977. Two 'PONIES' ('persons of no interest' in intelligence speak) work anonymously as secretaries in the American Embassy. That is until their husbands are killed under mysterious circumstances in the USSR, and the pair become CIA operatives. Bea is an over-educated, Russian-speaking child of Soviet immigrants. Her cohort, Twila, is a small-town girl who is as abrasive as she is fearless. Together, they work to uncover a vast Cold War conspiracy and solve the mystery that made them widows in the first place.

Why it fits

Honey turns Cold War espionage into charged, watchful scenes, and Ponies brings that same mix of secrets and danger with a lighter touch. Marta’s risky attraction complicates her cover in East Berlin, while two newly widowed women form a combustible partnership in Moscow, with friction and loyalty adding humour to the suspense.

Black Doves

Netflix • 5 Nov 2026

Action & AdventureMystery

After her lover is murdered by members of London's underworld, a spy - who is publicly the wife of the British Defence Secretary - is protected by an old friend from their agency.

Why it fits

Honey makes a double life feel intimate and perilous, while Black Doves adds brisk action and sharp, dark humour to its spy secrets. Marta’s attraction to the people around her sharpens the danger of being watched in East Berlin; in London, a politician’s wife balances family life with covert work and an assassin friend’s protection.

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