L-R: Haley Lu Richardson and Emilia Clarke in 'Ponies' Katalin Vermes/Peacock Peacock's Ponies, starring Game of Thrones' Emilia Clarke and The White Lotus' Haley Lu Richardson, uses Cold War Moscow as backdrop for a comedic buddy spy thriller. While weaving real people and events, including George Bush as CIA director and Elton John touring the Soviet Union, the series is fictional (though a lot of elements, from the Zhiguli and Volga cars and the Soviet songs of the era to the lines in front of stores and the old grocery scales hit too close to home for those of us who grew up behind the Iro...