Set in post-war Britain, Traitors (Netflix Originals) plunges its viewers into the world of espionage, chiefly of Soviet infiltration of Attlee’s government around 1946. Soviets are there all right, along with dozens of bureaucrats and the Americans, whose agents are convinced that the Russians are up to no good. And they’re willing to use any covert means to prove it.
Episode one begins intriguingly enough, with a stranger coming back to his flat and to bed without noticing a suspicious set of toes jutting out from behind the curtain. The owner of the shoes comes out, smothers the sleeper, tosses him downstairs and pours some incriminating whisky on the dead man’s mouth.
