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THE SPY Stream on Netflix. Sacha Baron Cohen, the actor best known for assuming false identities as the title characters of the satires “Borat” and “Bruno,” plays a man who himself is assuming a false identity in this six-part mini-series. That man would be Eli Cohen, the real-life Mossad spy who in the 1960s went undercover in Syria and gathered intelligence that is credited with being crucial to Israel’s victory in the Six-Day War. The series, directed by the Israeli filmmaker Gideon Raff, follows Eli Cohen (who is not related to the actor who portrays him) in the early 1960s as he poses as a Syrian shipping magnate. “I saw Eli Cohen, as he was written in the show, as an extreme version of myself,” Baron Cohen said in a recent interview with The New York Times. “The stakes were higher for him, because the price of failure is imprisonment and execution. Eli Cohen was, in that sense, the greatest method actor of the last century.”

GAMEFACE Stream on Hulu. “I’m not codependent,” the English comic Roisin Conaty says in the second season of this sitcom. “I’m old-fashioned needy.” The series stars Conaty as Marcella, a struggling actor who spent the first season searching for parts, taking advice from her life coach and recovering from a breakup. The second season, which aired in Britain earlier this year , sees Marcella continuing to pursue both her career and a potential romance with her driving instructor, Jon (Damien Molony).