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That show is Ponies, a new Cold War spy thriller created by Susanna Fogel and David Iserson. The series is set in 1977 and stars Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson as two PONIES, or “persons of no interest,” who work anonymously as secretaries at the American Embassy in Moscow. When their husbands die under mysterious circumstances in the Soviet Union, they are thrust into the CIA and must dig into the vast conspiracy their husbands were killed for. Ponies Season 1 consists of eight episodes, scheduled to release on Peacock on January 15th.
Ponies Is the Next Great Step in Emilia Clarke’s Post-Game of Thrones Career
Clarke hasn’t disappeared from the limelight in the years since the genre-defining and pop culture phenomenon Game of Thrones wrapped its eight-season run, but Ponies is already poised to be her strongest outing yet since the iconic show. The series currently holds a 91% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes, making it her highest-rated project in her post-GOT era. It’s still too early for the series to earn an audience rating, but critics are praising the show’s fresh take on the spy genre that shifts focus from the male-dominated narratives common in the genre to two ordinary, overlooked women, with Clarke and Richardson delivering wildly endearing performances.
