Tuesday, June 23, 2026

Cancel Culture: “Ponies”


“Ponies” (“Persons of No Interest”), the dramatic thriller TV series, directed by Susan Fogel, starring Emilia Clarke (“Game of Thrones”) has been canceled after one season of streaming on Peacock:


‘…in Moscow, 1977, two ‘PONIES’ (ie. persons of no interest) 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’ (Clarke) is an over-educated, Russian-speaking child of Soviet immigrants. Her cohort, ‘Twila’ (Haley Lu Richardson), 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….”


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