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INTELLIGENCE
July 15, 2020  | By David Bianculli

Peacock, 3:00 a.m. ET

 
SERIES PREMIERE: Nick Mohammed, who created this comedy series, co-stars as a British intelligence gatherer whom is about the only spy in his organization who’s enthused by the arrival of an American counterpart as a sort of cultural information exchange program. David Schwimmer from Friends plays the new arrival as a very ugly American – as pompous, acerbic and misguidedly self-satisfied as a better-dressed Basil Fawlty – and plays against the British sensibility almost as well as another Friends alumnus, Matt Le Blanc, did in the brilliant Showtime sitcom Episodes. Think of this as a cross between The Office and Get Smart, lower your expectations a bit, then enjoy… Sylvestra Le Touzel, as the head of the British spy agency, is particularly wry and dry.
 
 
 
 
 
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