Peacock has released the official trailer for Ponies, the upcoming espionage thriller led by Emmy nominee Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) as Bea and Haley Lu Richardson (The White Lotus) as Twila. The eight-episode series is slated to start streaming on January 15, 2026.
“Moscow, 1977. Two ponies (“persons of no interest” in intelligence speak) work anonymously as secretaries in the American Embassy. That is, until their husbands are killed under mysterious circumstances in the USSR, and the pair become CIA operatives. Bea is an over-educated, Russian-speaking child of Soviet immigrants,” reads the official logline. “Her cohort, Twila, is a small-town girl who is as abrasive as she is fearless. Together, they work to uncover a vast Cold War conspiracy and solve the mystery that made them widows in the first place.”
Check out the Ponies trailer below (watch more trailers):
What happens in the Ponies trailer?
The video introduces Clarke’s Bea and Richardson’s Twila, who suddenly become CIA spies in Moscow after both of their husbands were killed during an undercover mission. The trailer highlights the challenges they’ll face as they pretend to be secretaries at the American Embassy in hopes of finding the answers to their husbands’ deaths. It also provides a glimpse at some of the show’s thrilling sequences.
Ponies is created, written, and executive-produced by showrunner David Iserson (Mr. Robot, New Girl) and director Susanna Fogel (The Flight Attendant). The cast also includes series regulars Adrian Lester (Sandman, Day After Tomorrow), Artjom Gilz (Tar, Das Boot), Nicholas Podany (Saturday Night, Hello Tomorrow), Petro Ninovskyi (Shttl, Silence), and Vic Michaelis (Very Important People, Upload).
The show is executive-produced by Clarke, showrunner Mike Daniels, Jessica Rhoades, Katherine Bridle, Alison Mo Massey, Jared Ian Goldman, and Rosa Handelman. It is a production by Universal Television.
