Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game (2024– ) User Reviews

The not-so-great game

[paul2001sw-1 · 7/10 · 4 June 2024]

The defection of Oleg Gordievski, former KGB agent, to the United Kingdom was a big story in the 1980s. This series puts this event in the wider context of East-West relations, as well as telling the fairly remarkable story of his final escape from the Soviet Union. As usual in this sort of series, there are a range of talking heads to guide us through the story, most of whom were actively involved in it; as such, they can tell it like it is, although there's a lack of variety in their perspectives as a result: this is not a programme that is heavily critical of the intelligence services. Unusually for me, I am willing to give some credit to Thatcher and Reagan, who departed from their normal bellicosity when they saw, with the advent of Mikael Gorbachev, the potential for diplomatic rapproachment and did not allow it to be derailled by the espionage drama. Whether the spies really served our interests is another question.

mygawd, those where the days...

[ops-52535 · 10/10 · 11 May 2024]

Of spygame glory, and nuclear threats, and youll get a fullfilled piece of it in these 3 first episodes of BBC' episcopal saga about the spionage, counterespionage and 5th colony business activities during the cold war, most of all during the 1980's with the senile turmoils of soviet leadership and maggie thatchers full frontal attack at the male bastions of the political world, and last but not least the cowboy with a whip of a tongue, ronald reagan, seeking peacetalks with mr nice guy mikail gorbatchev of the USSR, which in the end made the coldwar thaw into a nice breezy wind of ''freedome''.

A spythriller based on real happenings, i remember these days very well at brandenburger tor, screaming inkululeko, freiheit, freedom , frihet...so you bet im old and grumpy and a cold war survivor, and to the new generations, watch this series, its somthin real good...