The 'Treason' Trailer Shows Charlie Cox Taking Charge of MI-6
Everyone loves a good spy thriller. (It's why seven different men have played James Bond in a franchise spanning six decades at this point.) But Netflix's Treason feels like something a bit different, if only because it's clear from the very start that we're not meant to know who to trust or whose side we're supposed to be on. Described as Bodyguard meets John Le Carre, the five-part drama stars Daredevil's Charlie Cox, whose winsome good looks make him an immediately sympathetic and appealing lead, but the series' story hints that there's plenty more to his character than initially meets the eye.
Cox plays Adam Lawrence, a successful agent trained by MI-6 whose life appears to be everything he could have wanted. He's married to a lovely woman named Maddy (Oona Chaplin), and his upward trajectory, professionally speaking, is clear, as illustrated by the fact that he's unexpectedly chosen to take over the agency after his superior is nearly killed in an attempted assassination. But when his complicated past rears its head — in the form of a Russian spy named Kara Yerzov (Olga Kurylenko) — his life (and that perfect career trajectory) is thrown into chaos.
If the trailer is anything to go by, Kara would appear to have pulled some strings (read: possibly poisoned some people) to position Adam for the job he just acquired. And she seems to think some thanks are for that. Why in the world Kara would want Adam in charge of MI-6 or what, precisely, it is that they once did together is unclear, but, well...it certainly looks bad. Is Adam a double agent? Were he and Kara more to each other than potential adversaries? And where does Maddy Lawrence fit into all this? Secrets, lies, and espionage, right?
