Published: 10 September 2019
Last updated: 5 March 2024
Eli Cohen’s daughter lukewarm on ‘The Spy,’ but likes Sacha Baron Cohen’s acting (Times of Israel)
Sophie Ben-Dor laments ‘the distance from the truth’ and says ‘it hurt’ to watch the Netflix series on her legendary agent father, but understands and respects the show
Sacha Baron Cohen plays it straight in ‘The Spy’ (NYT)
Cohen, best known for gonzo comedies like “Borat” and “Bruno,” discusses his dramatic turn in the new Netflix period thriller.
Sacha Baron Cohen, the Mossad and Netflix. What could possibly go wrong? (Haaretz)
Finally, a TV show about Israel that Bibi Netanyahu can get behind! Netflix’s new series, The Spy, is everything the HBO show Our Boys – which the prime minister recently lambasted in true Trumpian style – is not: It’s uncritical, unadventurous and underwhelming.
The Spy review – Sacha Baron Cohen goes undercover in middling Mossad drama (Guardian)
The star of Borat and Bruno goes straight as an Israeli spy in a plodding period espionage saga that mainly manages to remind viewers of better, smarter shows
Seriously impressive: Sacha Baron Cohen's dramatic leap forward (SMH)
This gripping six-part series is an enormous leap forward in the evolution of Sacha Baron Cohen as a serious dramatic actor. Baron Cohen plays the legendary Mossad agent Eli Cohen, who in the 1960s infiltrated the government of Syria in a long-term undercover operation that succeeded far beyond what anyone involved could have imagined.
