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The star of Borat and Bruno goes straight as an Israeli spy in a plodding period espionage saga that mainly manages to remind viewers of better, smarter shows
It’s a long way from Grimsby to Tel Aviv. But Sacha Baron Cohen has the singular distinction of playing spies in both contrasting burgs. In 2016’s The Brothers Grimsby, he played alcoholic buffoon and putative Grimbarian Nobby, who, despite being disguised as Liam Gallagher, managed to assist his MI6 officer brother to foil a eugenicist plot to rid the world of the working classes. But only after the pair, ostensibly hilariously, were obliged to hide in an elephant’s vagina.Three years later, Baron Cohen stars in The Spy, Netflix’s new six-part series written and directed by Gideon Raff, who was responsible for Prisoners of War, the (superior) Israeli series from which Homeland was adapted.
Baron Cohen plays Israel’s most famous spy, Eli Cohen, who in the 1960s went deep cover for Mossad in Damascus to obtain Syrian military secrets and thereby thwart attacks on kibbutzim in northern Israel. And, as it turns out, to suggest the planting of eucalyptus trees that would provide the air force with targets as Israeli forces overran the Golan Heights during 1967’s six-day war. Continue reading...