Spies on the Rise: With Slick Performances From Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson, ‘Ponies’ Deserves Emmys Love

By Whitney Friedlander

Whitney Friedlander

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It’s hard out there for television’s fictional female spies. They’ve got to be just as smart, cunning and one-step ahead as their male counterparts. Plus, they usually must do it in heels. Sadly, the TV Academy has a hard time taking notice of this. Sure, Barbara Bain had a good run of it in the 1960s when she won three back-to-back lead drama actress Emmys for her work as fashion model/covert op Cinnamon Carter in the “Mission: Impossible” series on CBS. And Claire Danes won the category twice for her work as the troubled and trouble-finding Carrie Mathison in Showtime’s “Homeland.”

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