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Ponies(2026)

Also known as Persons Of No interESt

Archived · Peacock

6.4
8 eps
S01
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.

Feels like
cold war espionagegrief-driven spiesbureaucratic cat-and-mouserussian-american identity
ON AIR: JAN 15Season 1Archived listing

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