Slow Horses
Aug. 6th, 2022 05:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tiggymalvern
We really enjoyed this short (only six eps) series. MI5 are investigating a racially motivated kidnapping, but the more that's discovered, the messier it all starts to look, with politics and extremism intersecting. When it all goes very wrong, the race is on to find someone to blame, and then it's spy vs spy as the people in the frame try to both prove their innocence and solve the case.
Great cast, headed by Gary Oldman and Kristen Scott Thomas, with solid characters and writing that keeps the story moving at a pace that's never boring and not too frenetic. I took a little while to warm up to the first episode (my reaction after the first five minutes with Gary Oldman was, 'The 1970s would like their cliche back'), but it all becomes far more complex, with a secondary mystery of the gradually revealed backstory between Oldman's character and one of his old cold war era colleagues.
Season two has already been filmed, but not yet released.
Great cast, headed by Gary Oldman and Kristen Scott Thomas, with solid characters and writing that keeps the story moving at a pace that's never boring and not too frenetic. I took a little while to warm up to the first episode (my reaction after the first five minutes with Gary Oldman was, 'The 1970s would like their cliche back'), but it all becomes far more complex, with a secondary mystery of the gradually revealed backstory between Oldman's character and one of his old cold war era colleagues.
Season two has already been filmed, but not yet released.
