Good news, everyone! Sacha Baron Cohen has a new TV series! The comedic actor is teaming up with a great writer-director a new limited series called “The Spy” on Netflix. I’m sure you can’t wait to see which crazy characters he creates and which celebrities he pranks this time, right? Well, get ready because the new trailer for the Netflix series looks…serious!? Wait, what?
That’s right, “The Spy” isn’t your typical Cohen project. There’s no laugh out loud moments. The series isn’t some satire about the current political climate presented in a way that only Cohen can. Instead, “The Spy” is a hard-hitting drama about an Israeli man that wants to be of service to his country. To do this, the clerk-turned-secret agent Eli Cohen goes deep undercover inside Syria on a perilous mission.
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Cohen, of course, stars in the series alongside Hadar Ratzon Rotem, Noah Emmerich, and Waleed Zuaiter. “The Spy” is written and directed by Gideon Raff, who is probably best known as one of the creative minds behind the Emmy-winning Showtime series “Homeland.” He also created the acclaimed Israeli drama series, “Prisoners of War.”
“The Spy” arrives on Netflix on September 6.
Here’s the synopsis:
The series stars Emmy-nominated Sacha Baron Cohen (Who is America?) as Cohen, a man who wants nothing more than to be of service to his country, but he does his job so well that he finds it hard to strip off his double identity. Noah Emmerich (The Americans) plays Dan Peleg, Eli’s Mossad handler who tries to ease his own guilt over the sacrifices Eli makes, Hadar Ratzon Rotem (Homeland) portrays Eli’s wife, Nadia, who is left to raise their family on her own and knows something isn’t right about her husband’s government job, and Waleed Zuaiter (Colony) plays Amin Al-Hafez, a military officer who thinks he’s found the perfect ally in the undercover Cohen.