Two professional liars fall for each other in The Company You Keep, a 2023 drama series that pits a con artist against the undercover officer investigating him.

What is The Company You Keep about?

Charlie makes his living by convincing people he is someone he is not, moving through cons with the confidence of a man who has never been caught. Emma works undercover for the CIA, trained to read people for a living and trained never to let her guard down. When the two meet, neither realizes who the other really is, and a single charged night pulls them toward each other before either can walk away. What follows is a relationship built on attraction and instinct while their professional lives are steering them onto a direct collision course. The series treats the con and the surveillance as two sides of the same skill set, watching two people who are extremely good at deception try to be honest with each other for the first time. Around Charlie and Emma sits a wider circle of family, handlers, and marks who complicate every choice, turning a workplace-adjacent romance into something closer to a slow-motion standoff.

About the cast

Milo Ventimiglia and Catherine Haena Kim lead as Charlie and Emma, with Sarah Wayne Callies, Felisha Terrell, Tim Chiou, James Saito, Freda Foh Shen, and Polly Draper rounding out the ensemble around them.

Context & significance

Created by Phil Klemmer, The Company You Keep premiered in 2023 as an hour-long drama that folds espionage plotting into a will-they-won't-they romance, a combination closer to a caper than a procedural. The 45-minute episode format gives each installment room for both the con-artist mechanics and the slower character work between its leads.

Watching The Company You Keep on Ktime

The Company You Keep is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, letting Farsi-speaking viewers follow both the con and the counter-surveillance without losing the show's rhythm. A free K-Time account login is all that's needed to start watching, part of K-Time's Farsi-first streaming experience built for the Iranian diaspora.