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Netflix, Sacha Baron Cohen’s The Spy: Release date, details

By Thomas Bradley Alderman

HOLLYWOOD, CA - MAY 23: (EDITORS NOTE: Image has been shot in black and white. Color version not available.) Actor Sacha Baron Cohen attends Disney’s 'Alice Through the Looking Glass' premiere with the cast of the film, which included Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska and Sacha Baron Cohen at the El Capitan Theatre on May 23, 2016 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Disney)
HOLLYWOOD, CA - MAY 23: (EDITORS NOTE: Image has been shot in black and white. Color version not available.) Actor Sacha Baron Cohen attends Disney’s 'Alice Through the Looking Glass' premiere with the cast of the film, which included Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska and Sacha Baron Cohen at the El Capitan Theatre on May 23, 2016 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Disney) /
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Sacha Baron Cohen and Netflix have a new espionage drama coming soon. The Spy is inspired by real events, including Mossad spy Eli Cohen’s time in Syria.

Sacha Baron Cohen is a marvelously talented writer as well as having a wide repertoire of performing skills. He has made fairly consistent television and movies. Therefore his new Netflix production, The Spy, is highly anticipated.

Former show Ali G was his initial, incredible breakthrough. It wasn’t just exported to the United States of America but continued a new season there, expanding his celebrity and reach. With Borat he created a cultural phenomenon—in the positive and negative sense, due to intense acclaim along with heavy criticism.

The style of mockumentary with unaware citizens’ inclusion and rapport is his best work by far. Other attempts such as The Dictator—undertaken in a traditional comedy genre with only actors—falls way short of his exceptionally high bar. In fact, the Ali G movie was completed without unsuspecting contributions, too. It is pale in significance to some of his other efforts.

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Dramatic turn

We probably won’t be seeing much ‘inner idiot,’ or humour at all for that matter, in this new show. That is because The Spy is a drama. Yes, wow! ‘Borat’ in a serious role—we cannot wait for this one.

However, it is not particularly unusual for comedy actors to try, and often succeed in, more prestigious, straight roles. One theory for this is the old clichéd adage that comedians spend much time making people laugh, and privately they are more quiet, solemn, sometimes depressed characters.

This notion was explored at length in the brilliant Adam Sandler/Judd Apatow movie Funny People. In turn, the tragic example of Robin Williams is also relevant.

The Spy

Details are thin at present, we haven’t gotten much information on the exciting limited series yet. Though TV Line has reported the air date of Sept. 6 2019. Photographs can also be viewed in their article.

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Additional cast include The Americans‘ Noah Emmerich as Dan Peleg, who everyone will remember as the best friend in The Truman Show.

One the most interesting elements about Cohen’s career is his comedic tutor: the revered Philippe Gaulier and his clown school, where one must embrace ridicule to their own advantage. Surely this helped evolve the London born comic’s self-depreciating style and will now help enable a switch. More can be read here in The Guardian.

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