True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics - Podcast Rankings and reviews

Really great content and guests. The writing is good, I think the stories and explanations are done well. My gripe is with the hypothetical questions asked to the listener, which are jarring. I’m already thinking about what I would do, I don’t need to be asked directly, it completely disrupts the show. Same with the sarcastic comments sprinkled throughout. It’s unnecessary and takes away from the guest.

Great podcast if you can get past the exclusively western-centric POV of these stories . Would love to hear some episodes from the “Bad Guy’s” perspective. There are tons of big league foreign agencies with great stories that have been seemingly ignored.

There seem to be a lot of negative reviews on the podcast and I think that comes from the misconception that the guests are without their own bias. These stories are really interesting and should be used as a starting point to look into a topic further especially on a political or polarizing topic. And in case it’s not in every episode they do have a disclaimer…
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this podcast are those of the subject. These stories are told from their perspective, and their authenticity should be assessed on a case-by-case basis.

Love this spy podcast done well with great research I enjoyed every episode and I learnt a lot. Thank you

I enjoy this show, have been with it since the very beginning with Hayley Atwell. Listening every week was a true pandemic lockdown comfort for me. I know ads are a necessary evil part of the podcasting experience, but really? A political ad? This isn’t TV, it’s not live radio, why would you risk pissing off half your audience with a negative campaign ad? To say nothing of it becoming dated and irrelevant past November. Do better SpyScape, pay attention to what ads you include, because that is inexcusable and if I hear another one you’ve lost a listener for good.

This was one of my favorite podcasts, but I’ve now unfollowed and removed all episodes from my library after the “disinformation” episode. I’m all for different viewpoints and encourage healthy debate in conversation, but the entire episode was very clearly an attack on Trump and served no purpose other than to continue to divide, the very thing it starts out claiming Russia did to the US. Typically, when this show has someone on that has a controversial opinion, they let them state that opinion themselves or say something along the lines of “according to (guest)”. They didn’t do that in this episode. They presented everything she said as fact, when some of it does not appear to have been true. It was very clear on this episode that the host, guest, and possibly production are focused on continuing the divisiveness that the country has faced recently by only discussing what they believe the Trump campaign has done without ever even mentioning the disinformation and harmful statements that have been proven to have occurred by the Biden and Clinton administrations. Its actual purpose was the division of half of its viewership from the show.