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A Spy Among Friends: Season 1

6 episodes Premiered Dec 8, 2022 Updated Oct 22, 2026

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S1·E1 Mytharc

Boom-Ooh-Yatatatah

Dec 8, 2022 · 55 min

In the wake of Kim Philby’s escape to Moscow, his closest friend in Britain’s Secret Service, Nicholas Elliott, is under investigation.

S1·E2 Core

The Admiral's Glass

Dec 8, 2022 · 60 min

Investigator Lily Thomas understands that Elliott is never going to divulge anything of value in a conventional interrogation process so she manipulates him.

S1·E3 Core

Allegory of the Catholic Faith

Dec 8, 2022 · 53 min

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.

S1·E4 Core

Vodka

Dec 8, 2022 · 54 min

Elliott rattles Blunt’s cage to make him panic and then follows him to a clandestine meeting in the middle of the night.

S1·E5 Mytharc

Snow

Dec 8, 2022 · 51 min

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.

S1·E6 Mytharc

No Man's Land

Dec 8, 2022 · 57 min

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.