TV Guide Magazine by Matt Roush

Throughout, Spies delivers the vicarious pleasures of old-fashioned spy movies with the bold contemporary frankness of the best of cable.

Miami Herald by Glenn Garvin

Durst’s books all offer the same engaging elements that the BBC makes such excellent use of in this two-part miniseries: The claustrophobic lifeboat atmosphere of a society teetering toward its doom.

Philadelphia Inquirer by Tirdad Derakhshani

Spies of Warsaw is a deeply romantic, intricately plotted, and well-structured character study.

San Francisco Chronicle by David Wiegand

Most of the performances are superb, beginning with Tennant, of course. He is so well cast and skilled that he's able to sustain credibility despite some of the gaps in the script.

Los Angeles Times by Robert Lloyd

Director Coky Giedroyc leaves enough dramatic headroom that when forces draw together toward the end, with one last frontier to cross, he can deliver what feels like pulp-fiction thrills without getting loud or fancy.

The New York Times by Alessandra Stanley

It’s an enjoyable, straightforward espionage tale without a lot of twists or extra layers.

New York Daily News by David Hinckley

Spies of Warsaw starts off as a complex spy drama and feels like it finishes as a less complex romance drama.

RedEye by Curt Wagner

Despite its historic gravitas and scrupulous attention to period detail, Spies of Warsaw never really ignites.

Boston Globe by Matthew Gilbert

The story wanders slowly and aimlessly when it should be tumbling toward a climax. It’s a ride on flat terrain.

Variety by Brian Lowry

The cloak-and-dagger stuff, however, proves terribly mild, and the romance stiff and hackneyed.