The Ipcress File: Season 1

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The Ipcress File: Season 1

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Season Details & Credits

ITV | AMC+ | Season Premiere Date: May 19, 2022

Summary: Joe Cole (Harry Palmer) begins his intelligence career in Berlin, while Jean Courtney (Lucy Boynton) get close to CIA agent Paul Maddox (Ashley Thomas) in this loose adaptation of Len Deighton's 1962 book with influences from the 1965 film with Michael Caine.

[Premiered originally in the UK on ITV on 6 Mar 2022 and set to air in the USJoe Cole (Harry Palmer) begins his intelligence career in Berlin, while Jean Courtney (Lucy Boynton) get close to CIA agent Paul Maddox (Ashley Thomas) in this loose adaptation of Len Deighton's 1962 book with influences from the 1965 film with Michael Caine.

[Premiered originally in the UK on ITV on 6 Mar 2022 and set to air in the US on AMC+ in 19 May 2022]… Expand

Genre(s): Drama, Suspense

Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E6. Episode 6
Air Date: April 10, 2022
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S1:E5. Episode 5
Air Date: April 3, 2022
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S1:E4. Episode 4
Air Date: March 27, 2022

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Collider Remus Norohna

May 18, 2022

The Ipcress File isn't your garden variety spy story, nor is it a gloom-and-doom picture of horrible people doing horrible things. It's in the balance between those two extremes that The Ipcress File manages to fit itself — and while it's far from perfect, this is definitely a show that'll have you waiting with bated breath every week for the next thrilling episode. Read full review

Nina Metz

May 25, 2022

It’s an intricately plotted series that doesn’t glamorize spy work so much as make clear just how awful it can be. The betrayals will always get you in the end. Read full review

The Independent Nick Hilton

Apr 8, 2022

Even if it can’t fully replicate the low-fi charms of the very best Cold War potboilers, its vintage sense of fun ought to be a crowd pleaser. This is about the gentlest, warmest depiction of the Anglo-Russian permafrost you’re likely to encounter. Read full review

i Rachael Sigee

Apr 8, 2022

Cole’s Palmer is fiercely intelligent, occasionally flippant, and liable to push people’s buttons. It’s a fine performance, if a little detached for an everyman hero. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Matt Roush

May 19, 2022

With international conspiracies and brainwashing adding to the intrigue, this File's a keeper. [23 May - 12 Jun 2022, p.7] Read full review

The Playlist Brian Tallerico

May 13, 2022

It’s interesting to see Lucy Boynton given a role that didn’t really exist in a source material that wasn’t exactly good to female characters, but the lack of urgency sometimes feels like it’s working against everyone involved, sometimes stuck between replicating the style of the ‘60s and appealing to an audience in the 2020s. Read full review

Mike Hale

May 18, 2022

You could, as the series winds along and pads out the time with a subplot about Dalby’s former Soviet lover, wish for some of the film’s silliness to enliven the lovely photography and bespoke nostalgia. And the story, while more coherent and consequential, still has a laboratory-maze quality to it. You could also wish, it must be said, no matter how unfairly, for some of Caine’s blunt magnetism. Read full review

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: May 19, 2022
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  S1:E6. Episode 6
  Air Date: April 10, 2022
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  S1:E5. Episode 5
  Air Date: April 3, 2022
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  S1:E4. Episode 4
  Air Date: March 27, 2022
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  S1:E3. Episode 3
  Air Date: March 20, 2022
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  S1:E2. Episode 2
  Air Date: March 13, 2022
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  S1:E1. Episode 1
  Air Date: March 6, 2022