Television

Katarina Hall | 12.20.2023 12:31 PM

In the anime Spy x Family, a Soviet-esque government uses terror and surveillance to enforce order. It's a funny, genre-bending critique of overreaching state authority, in which a found family must wrestle with private secrets while a vast state security apparatus tries to pry into their hidden lives.

Adapted from Tatsuya Endo's popular manga series, the show, now in its second season, is set against the backdrop of a divided world, with the neighboring nations of Ostania and Westalis in a Cold War–like standoff. Westalis sends its best agent, Twilight, to infiltrate the Ostanian city of Berlint and gain access to a far-right organization plotting to restart the war.

To execute the operation, Twilight assumes the identity of the psychiatrist Loid Forger and forms a family. He adopts Anya, a pink-haired girl, from an orphanage; marries Yor Briar, a civil servant working at city hall; and saves a white, fluffy dog named........

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