Spy Games (2020) User Reviews

Like A Good Spy, This Show Seems To Be Flying Under The Radar

[atlasmb · 7/10 · 28 January 2020]

"Spy Games" is a reality game show with 10 contestants vying for a $100,000 top prize. During the show, they live in the same house. There are three intelligence experts (ex-CIA, -FBI, -Secret Service) who assess their performance and eliminate one contestant per episode.

In the first two episodes, there are lessons about covert information gathering and lock picking. The contestants learn that this is not about being like James Bond; a premium is placed on being the unobtrusive "gray man".

The contestants come from a wide variety of backgrounds---everything from a prison psychologist to a video game exec. Their different personalities make some of them more suitable than others for espionage. Gaining information is a key skill. Some use trickery and deceit to gain it; others use alliances and cooperative play.

This show will be as entertaining as the missions the producers have devised for the competitions. The first two missions were diverse and interesting.

I don't think Bravo advertised this series much, so it may have a small audience.

Passable, fun at times, but had a lot of missed opportunities.

[SILMARILLI · 6/10 · 19 March 2020]

I liked this show! I could have loved it but found it a little bland and it had a lot of missed opportunities and there a certainly better shows out there. I loved the core cast I.E. the judges but they were way to soft on the contestants. As for the contestants for the most part they were a joke. Far to clueless or to large an ego and i DO NOT give a crap about their own sob stories. The SPY game is not like in the movies it is far to serious a business and nobody seamed to really be taking it all seriously. At least this show did NOT!. Every contestant SHOULD HAVE BEEN waterboarded. Felt the bite of a rubber hose across their backs, thrown naked in a cold cell without food or water for three days. Been questioned non-stop for 36 hours straight then asked to perform some task. They should have made it real. At least more real. One of the BIGGEST missed opportunities was this is "SPY" GAMES one of the contestants should have been a "SPY" a ringer part of the game the one to beat. The "SPY" is only revealed in the final. At the end there should have been only two contestants left, with one of them the SPY who can NOT WIN the game because they are the game. Make it so the contestant knows they have lost, only for it to be revealed at the last moment that they have been duped by the SPY and have in fact won. IT IS AFTER ALL "SPY GAMES".

Boring and pretentious.

[londas · 28 January 2020]

Behind the scenes of spies in the making. Yet another cheap reality program.

Enormously enjoyable

[gridoon2024 · 8/10 · 6 April 2020]

"Spy Games" is kinda like one of those cooking reality shows that are somehow so popular - except in this one the contestants actually get to do fast-paced, fun stuff. The men are a little bland, but at least 4 out of the 5 women are amazing characters, with 3 of them possibly iconic: complex, fiery, passionate, competitive, smart. It's also quite unpredictable from episode to episode, although the winner is ultimately kinda predictable (based on past history in the game). I'd gladly watch a second season (with even more strategy among the players). *** out of 4.

If you come across the show...RUN! Don't look back.

[Jaykoru · 1/10 · 10 March 2020]

I try not to watch any reality television, but once in a while something catches my eye where I tell myself "Hm, this might actually be good".

For a show that boasts being inspired by the once-secret World War II government program known as "Station S" I was dead wrong and ultimately duped by a catchy show description, it definitely falls into the category of shows I wish I never saw.

Beyond the judges who I feel should star in their own movies/shows, the rest was pure garbage. Horrible contestants, which is the usual scummy type of people that these shows tend to cast, "missions" that are at best substandard escape rooms, and a final winner that really didn't deserve it.

Horrible show, horrible cast

[saranell-28332 · 1/10 · 3 March 2020]

This show is BORING, in my opinion. Not one of bravos best, that's for sure. I dont know what they were thinking. The thought of the show is kinda cool, but the cast and even some of the "hosts" are just boring. You can tell that instead of letting the person who actually wins each competition win, that they make sure they pick whoever brings the most "drama" on the show. I wish it was more of a true competition show. Theres only 1 contestant that deserves to win and hes obviously an amazing contestant. One of the contestants is just on the show to try and bring drama and it's so annoying because its obvious. Sob stories used and all. Crying every episode and not getting her way. They did a horrible job picking cast members. Very disappointing. Some of the cast are just weird and bring nothing to the show. Even the host has no purpose..she just stands there. And is quiet. The 3 accessors are ok..but I only find 1 out of the 3 enjoyable to watch. 1 of them is very quiet and again..brings nothing to the show. I'm honestly surprised they even aired this show. I've heard it's not doing well and I've seen on social media that it's not bringing in views like bravos other shows are. Wish they had done a better job in picking cast members and it might have actually been an ok show! Oh well!

10% Cool Spy stuff, 90% Cheap house reality Drama

[darkbytes · 1/10 · 18 May 2020]

This show is inconsistent, boring and its title very misleading, there is almost no "Spy" Action, almost all of the show is just boring house melodrama the kind of which we've seen in a hundred more interesting reality shows, I stop watching 3/4 down and I really don't care who won, I'm not going to loose my sleep over it, Disappointing

What a wasted Season ... I feel for you Christina

[glynch-13057 · 1/10 · 24 April 2020]

I found the end of the first season was not fairly awarded. As stated by one of the judges if leaving an item in the mark's room specially a jacket with who knows what what information in it. Then by default the winner should have been awarded to the 2rd place contestant. That being said, my opinion is that the show had lost it credibility. Up until the point of Brock leaving the locked room his game had been great. But one error that big in the REAL world could have or would have cost a live and it is unfair for him to be rewarded for such a grave error. I just say ... Spy Games ... really... was good show till the final. Guess this show won't be returning for a second season.