Honey reimagines Carolyn Martens’s early spy years in East Berlin

*Honey* is a glossy, camp prequel to *Killing Eve*, following Carolyn Martens’s early years as a spy in East Berlin. Working under the alias Martha Schmitt, she is tasked with seducing influential men and photographing them to secure information for the West; the review praises the show’s female-led, playful take on espionage.

Set in 1982, the series pairs Martha with American agent Kurt Fischer and pits her against Stasi officer Friedrich Baumann. Its pop songs, anachronistic jokes, stylish disguises and light kink give it a knowingly modern, flirty tone, though the review says this can sit uneasily with the setting’s history of oppression and sometimes strains credibility. Ann Skelly, Rory Kinnear and Jannis Niewöhner are among the cast.