‘Ponies’ merges comedy with a gritty spy story in TV dramedy

'Ponies' merges comedy with a gritty spy story in TV dramedy

The Peacock series “Ponies” starring Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson blends comedy and drama as widows of CIA operatives become intelligence assets in the 1970s Soviet Union. Despite its hourlong episodes, it has been submitted for Emmy nominations as…

‘Ponies’ merges comedy with a gritty spy story in TV dramedy

New Delhi Times “Ponies” is a bit of a unicorn. The Peacock series that stars Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson as widows of CIA operatives who become intelligence assets in the 1970s Soviet Union has real stakes, and real blood. But its tone is comic first and foremost. And it has been submitted for the forthcoming Emmy nominations as a comedy, despite its hourlong episodes that on television usually mean drama. The tone-mashing comes natur…