EPISODE
Spy City - Season 1
An English spy who is sent to Berlin in 1961 to sift out a traitor in the UK Embassy or among the Allies, shortly before the construction of the Berlin Wall.
November 10, 1985 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany
2 July 1964, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
3 March 1975, Freiburg, Germany
1958, Birmingham, England, UK
10 February 1958, Cranleigh, Surrey, England, UK
February 18, 1958 in Brilon, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
January 31, 1963 in Berlin, Germany
1973, Hamburg, Germany
25 December 1987, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
February 21, 1955 in Bernburg, German Democratic Republic
2 June 1978, Greenwich, London, England, UK
11 May 1975, Santa Cruz, California, USA
5 March 1986, Berlin, Germany
27 November 1972, Praha, Czechoslovakia
April 15, 2021
Dominic Cooper is so good that you'll find yourself wishing he would play the character for the rest of his life. By turns brooding, calculating, arrogant, funny, reckless, charming, and ruthless, he's about as perfect for the role as anyone could hope.
April 20, 2021
Smart and stylish, AMC+'s Spy City captures a tumultuous time and place in world history...
April 16, 2021
William Boyd, the creator and main screenwriter of Spy City, skillfully recreates the miasma of intelligence treachery of 1961 Berlin without pushing into high-camp James Bond territory.
April 16, 2021
It helps that the acting and production design are both excellent.
April 14, 2021
Spy City is sometimes entertaining and often well-acted, but the missteps of its finale call into question its overall intentions.
April 15, 2021
Any fan of those authors will want more character-based nuance scattered among the clandestine meetings, predictable double-crosses and Wikipedia-deep exploration of the Cold War.
April 15, 2021
Written by William Boyd and directed by Miguel Alexandre, the six-episode series is a glossy spy thriller paint-by-numbers, everything we've seen before, in really nice trappings.
April 19, 2021
The cinematography is elegant, and the production design accurate. It's a well-made show, if not necessarily a well-written show.
April 15, 2021
Everyone might be telling the truth, which is what makes Spy City as engrossing as it is.

