Apple continues to shine with this British drama series, Slow Horses. Evidently based off of a novel by Mick Herron of the same name, this series already impressively has three more seasons lined up! That’s pretty cool! And even better, the second season is supposed to drop later this year.
Anyways, the show revolves around a group of “reject” MI5 officers that all get relegated to menial tasks in the Slough House. They are led by a seriously grumpy and rude former officer, Jackson Lamb. Offsetting Lamb’s drunken laziness, is new Slough House member, River Cartwright, who botched a test intelligence operation. It also sounds like he was maybe headed to Slough House regardless, since back when he was in training he tailed the Deputy Director-General of MI5, Diana Taverner, instead of the person he was supposed to. I imagine she was probably skeezed and had it out for him.
Stuff really starts getting interesting for the group when a British-Pakistani student gets kidnapped by a far right group. They don’t seem to want a ransom, but rather just have people watch him get decapitated. Slough House gets involved almost on accident, no thanks to River, who is horrified when fellow agent, Sid Baker, gets shot in the head and put in a coma. There’s more to Sid than meets the eye, and with that knowledge comes with it that Taverner is also fairly shady. She claims she’s doing a good thing, but her operation with the kidnapped student turns sideways, and now she wants Slough House to be under the bus, rather than herself.
It’s fun watching this group of kind of irritating people come together to save not only their name, but an innocent person! Things get pretty crazy at one point, and while the end of the season comes to a natural conclusion, there’s also a juicy little secret revealed perfectly teeing up the second season. You know who’s probably going to be more involved in the second season? Johnathan Pryce! That’s just icing on an already delicious cake of incredible casting. As if you didn’t need more reasons to watch this bonkers spy drama. Gary Oldman plays Lamb, the leader of this dysfunctional pack, and he’s obviously incredible.
I don’t want to say much else about this show, because it’d be so easy to spoil. But, as I said before, you’ve got three other seasons to look forward to, so why not get started now?!