Slow Horses: high drama and comedy abound in this gripping spy thriller about….
The slow horses are a group of MI5 rejects who have made enough mistakes to be sent to Slough House, a pun on the building where they work, but not enough to be fired. Here, this misfit gang endures tedious administrative work as their employer, Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman), verbally abuses them occasionally.
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Returning for its fourth season, the witty spy thriller follows this group of pencil pushers as they become embroiled in thwarting schemes that threaten Britain.
The Slough House series’ author, Mick Herron, has been compared to the contemporary John Le Carré.Former intelligence officer Le Carré (actual name David Cornwell) was the leading author of spy fiction during and after the Cold War.However, Herron and LeCarré are both treated unfairly by the
They both have a strong dislike for government intelligence services and their operators, and they are keen observers of character, including treachery, strange displays of love and affection, and trust.
But Herron is not trying to depict the actual nature of intelligence work. The show insists on calling officers and agents throughout, after all. Herron is more interested in intricate and captivating plots and characters. The pivot is simply the spying. Through his deputy director general of MI5, Diana Taverner (Kristin Scott Thomas), he does, however, discover one intelligence axiom: “never underline the weakness of human intelligence.”
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