"Once you get past all the establishment points of view, or the traditional reactions to a traitor, people want to know more," he says. Viewers remain curious about Philby, Carey believes, because of his status as a traitor. What I was trying to imagine was really a state of mind that was beginning to change-and Philby's grip on his superpower beginning to slip away, and be replaced by indifference." "But that said, it's based in truth and conversations with Ben and my own research as well. "We know nothing about it so I can make anything I want up," he jokes to Town & Country. The decision to focus on Philby's defection, rather than his choice to spy for the Soviets, was a straightforward one for the show's creator and writer Alexander Carey. Not much is known about what happened to Philby after he left the UK, which makes his story ripe for dramatization. Based on Ben Macintyre's book of the same name, A Spy Among Friends seeks to understand why Philby fled to the Soviet Union, and how he got away with being a double agent for so long.
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