My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of HONEY on BBC1!

Honey is a new spy thriller with elements of comedy, taking us back to 1980 East Berlin, with the opening spiel:

“1980
East Berlin is a city of Spies
The Stasi run an army of citizen informants
Everyone is watching…
Look Hot.

Everyone you see here is speaking German…“

But of course, Rory Kinnear always plays Rory Kinnear, in just an occasional role for this drama, as Graham Anderson, the handler for Martha Schmitt (Ann Skelly – Death and Nightingales), who’s now in deep cover, starting on the East/West Berlin border, but of their type of agent espionage work, James Bond star Rory says, “It’s not like Bond, you know”(!)

The spying starts early, as honey-trap Martha sleeps with a man, then pretends to be too tired to get up in the morning, so while he goes to work, she has a snoop round his apartment for spy-type stuff.

Don’t except music/era accuracy, as when they get to 1982, in the background, you hear Animotion’s Obsession from 1984, but that’s a very minor point, but overal, who can you trust?

Based upon the first two episodes – which is what was available for review – and I don’t want to spoil anything to come, but while Honey is a bit all over the place, and rather less the sum of its parts with some hammy acting, it is amusing at times.

I’ll update the review once I’ve seen more of the series.

Honey begins tomorrow on BBC1 at 9pm, runs weekly with two episodes apiece.

It’s not yet available to pre-order on Blu-ray or DVD, but when it is, it will be listed on the New DVD, Blu-ray, 3D and 4K releases UK page.

Once broadcast, it will be available to watch on the BBC iPlayer.

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Honey – Official Trailer – BBC

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Cert:
Running time: 45-50 minutes per episode (6 episodes)
Release date: November 14th 2026
Studio: BBC
Format: 2.00:1

Director: Toby MacDonald
Producer: Christopher Hall
Writer: Emma Moran

Cast:
Martha Schmitt: Ann Skelly
Kurt Fischer: Nate Mann
Friedrich Baumann: Jannis Niewöhner
Graham Anderson: Rory Kinnear
Anne Anderson: Sonita Henry
Lena Schneider: Elena Flury
Ilse Huber: Sonia Ritter
Sonja Krause: Gabija Jaraminaite
Stefan Peters: Oliver Cudbill
Otto Kowalski: Julian Niedermeier
Rolf Müller: Valentino Dalle Mura
Otto G Brunstrom: Romualdas Lavrinovicius
Greta Abstreiter: Sofia Oxenham
Hermann Metzl: Lasse Boje Haye Weber

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