2023 | TV-MA | 6 episodes | Spy Thriller
They were the most privileged upper crust of British society. Sir Anthony Blunt was even the third cousin of the Queen Mum. However, the members of the so-called “Cambridge Five” spy ring were all committed communists, who betrayed their country to the Soviet Union. MI6 Intelligence Officer Nicholas Elliott (Damian Lewis) was not one of them, but he was very close friends with Harold Adrian Russell “Kim” Philby (Guy Pearce). That puts Elliott in a rather tight spot with rival domestic-focused British intelligence agency MI5 when he fails to capture (or kill) Philby in Beirut, after the double agent’s exposure.
