PONIES: Peacock’s serving up solid competition with the 70’s Cold War thriller

New year. New shows. It’s all in a day’s work for Peacock with actresses Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson teaming up for a new ‘PONIES’ series slated to arrive next month.

It’s the 70’s. Cold War. Twists. Turns. Prepare for some craziness.

Synopsis: Moscow, 1977. Two “PONIES” ("persons of no interest" in intelligence speak) work anonymously as secretaries in the American Embassy. That is until their husbands are killed under mysterious circumstances in the USSR, and the pair become CIA operatives. Bea (Emilia Clarke) is an over-educated, Russian-speaking child of Soviet immigrants. Her cohort, Twila (Haley Lu Richardson), is a small-town girl who is as abrasive as she is fearless. Together, they work to uncover a vast Cold War conspiracy and solve the mystery that made them widows in the first place.