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Brush up on your spy speak! Games of Thrones star Emilia Clarke and The White Lotus actress Haley Lu Richardson are headlining the series PONIES in the new
year. Co-created by Susanna Fogel and David Iserson, PONIES is set in Moscow, Russia, in the year 1977. Clarke and Richardson play American widows who set out to solve the mysterious deaths of their husbands in a foreign land during the height of the Cold War. Here's how you can watch the eight-episode series on OTT.
PONIES to premiere in January 2026
On Instagram, JioHotstar shared, "Moscow. 1977. They were invisible. Until they weren’t. From secretaries to CIA operatives, they stepped into the shadows of the Cold War to uncover the truth behind their husbands’ deaths. Starring Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson, #PONIES arrives January 16 on The Peacock Hub on JioHotstar." Emilia Clarke also does double duty as an executive producer on the show.
The official synopsis for the Peacock series states, "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 is an over-educated, Russian-speaking child of Soviet immigrants. Her cohort, Twila, 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.”
Booksmart's Fogel and Mad Men's Iserson are the creators. Fogel is also director, executive producer, and co-writer on the project, while Iseron is the showrunner and co-writer. Adrian Lester, Vic Michaelis, Nicholas Podany, Artjom Gilz, Petro Ninovskyi, and Andrew Richardson are also part of the ensemble cast of the spy thriller. Each of the eight episodes in the series is one hour long.
