How many episodes are in Ponies?

Ponies has 8 episodes in this listed season.

When does Ponies premiere?

Ponies premieres on 2026-01-15.

Is Ponies a new series?

Ponies is a new series (Season 1).

NEW

Ponies(2026)

Also known as Persons Of No interESt

Archived · Peacock

8 eps

S01

DramaThriller

ON AIR: JAN 15Season 1Archived listing

What to Expect

PremiereLens read

Set in the American Embassy in Moscow in 1977, Ponies builds its spy drama from the ground up, starting with two women who are deliberately invisible to the intelligence world around them. When their husbands die under suspicious circumstances in the USSR, Bea and Twila are pulled into CIA work not by recruitment or ideology but by grief, which gives the show a different kind of urgency than most Cold War thrillers.

Bea is a Russian-speaking daughter of Soviet immigrants, over-educated and analytical; Twila is a small-town outsider who runs on nerve rather than nuance. Their friction is genuine and specific, two people who would not choose each other, forced into close quarters by a conspiracy neither fully understands yet. The personal mystery of what happened to their husbands runs alongside the larger plot, keeping the consequences immediate even as the danger scales up.

Best for

cold war espionage, grief-driven spies and Drama

Story lane

Drama and Thriller

Commitment

Season 1 · 8 episodes

Where

Peacock

Official Premise

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.

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