Lakeshore Records is set to release
Ponies—Original Series Soundtrack digitally today, January 15, with an original score by Jung Jaeil (Parasite, Okja). Jaeil’s exhilarating synth-based score captures the tension of 70’s Cold War espionage as well as the bond created by the main characters. Ponies, produced by Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, will be available on Peacock January 15.
Two “PONIES,” “persons of no interest” in intelligence speak, work anonymously as secretaries in the American Embassy. That is until their husbands are killed under mysterious circumstances in the USSR, and the pair become CIA operatives. Bea (Clarke) is an over-educated, Russian-speaking child of Soviet immigrants. Her cohort, Twila (Richardson), is a small-town girl who is as abrasive as she is fearless. Together, they work to uncover a vast Cold War conspiracy and solve the mystery that made them widows in the first place.
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