It is not every day that two young women get to simultaneously take the lead in a TV series, let alone in a Cold-War era thriller. But if there's one thing instantly apparent from the moment Bea and Twila appear on screen for the first time, it's that the female agents Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson so vibrantly portray in the newly released TV show Ponies don't just bring emotion into the game, but tons of style, a pinch of humor, and — yes — you read it right: nerves.
Created by Susanna Fogel and David Iserson, Ponies, which stands for 'persons of no interest', premiered this Thursday, January 15, on US on-demand platform Peacock. It traces the adrenaline-fueled adventures of two widows who, following the disappearance of their American spy husbands, Chris and Tom, go to Moscow where they lived under cover, and become CIA operatives themselves, searching for the truth.
