"You don't seem like a man who would like a boring life," a character tells Dominic Cooper's Fielding Scott, a spy navigating the uncertain streets of divided Berlin circa 1961, in AMC+'s Spy City.
It's unclear how she's making this judgment, since other than looking like a man who enjoys a well-tailored suit, Fielding Scott doesn't lend himself to much of a read at all — even after the six-episode entirety of Spy City. "I love boring.
I long for boring," Fielding replies. In that case, Fielding Scott would quite enjoy Spy City, a monotonously twisty — or twistily monotonous? — assemblage of espionage clichés and paper-thin characters wafting through a potent historical backdrop.
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