The Spy (Netflix spy-fy series).

Here’s something you don’t see very day, sometimes-comedian Sacha Baron Cohen in a grimly serious dark role – in this case playing a 1960s civil servant in Israel called Eli Cohen who has to go deep undercover inside Syria on years-long job to spy on the Arabs for Mossad.

That kind of thing messes with your head, as this trailer ably demonstrates. He’s a damn fine actor, but I am going to have to un-see Borat throughout this series!

Hitting Netflix soon on September 6th 2019.