Elisabeth Moss is Bourne again in the trailer for FX's spy thriller,The Veil
Moss is an unpredictable spy on the hunt in FX’s latest espionage action thriller
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After nearly a decade of telling The Handmaid’s Tale, Elisabeth Moss is removing the bonnet and putting on The Veil. In the new spy thriller from FX, Moss is a secret agent with an accent who loses her identity to become a hundred strangers in her myriad missions. She plays Imogen Salter, a name that sounds like it should be a pun (maybe her middle name begins with “A”— I. A. Salter?), who, as Max Peterson (Josh Charles) tells us, is only used in “high-level situations but is known for being erratic and unpredictable.” In other words, she’s the perfect spy to lead a television show and stop a plan, intelligence tells us, is set to kill half a million people.
We won’t even begin to try to disentangle a plot that probably doesn’t even makes sense during the show, so here’s the incredibly vague synopsis from FX:
FX’s The Veil explores the surprising and fraught relationship between two women who play a deadly game of truth and lies on the road from Istanbul to Paris and London. One woman has a secret, the other a mission to reveal it before thousands of lives are lost. In the shadows, mission controllers at the CIA and French DGSE must put differences aside and work together to avert potential disaster.
The crux of this show is between Moss and Yumna Marwan, who plays a spy-adjacent mystery woman likely possessing a mysterious MacGuffin. The “Spy-vs-Spy” games and rogue agent chase give the trailer a Man From U.N.C.L.E meets Bourn Identity vibe, with all the international locales that come with it.
Elisabeth Moss’s appearance on any television show is cause for excitement. However, the show is created by hit-and-miss maker Steven Knight, who co-created Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, won audiences over with Peaky Blinders, and directed that memorable Matthew McConaughey sci-fi calamity, Serenity. Not that that slowed him down. Between his dirty Dickens adaptations and a Peaky Blinders revival movie, he remains one of the busiest filmmakers in Hollywood. The Veil looks compelling. We’ll find out next month if it delivers.
The first two episodes of The Veil stream on Hulu on April 30.