After three seasons, the concept of Slow Horses (Apple TV+’s recent premiere) is as recognizable as the farts that Jackson Lamb proudly expels (Gary Oldman) in front of any interlocutor. The model is made up of some book from the Mick Herron spy saga, respect for the gears of the genre, the hint of some notes on the current European situation and the joking tone typical of black comedy. The heart, in short, remains the “losers, misfits and drunks”, as Mick Jagger sings in “Strange Game”, the catchy song heard at the opening of the episode dedicated to the agents denigrated to “the swamp”. Every Wednesday there will be a new episode on the streaming platform.
The first of the new story, “Identity Theft,” began with a suicide bombing in central London and the “murder” of one of the members of the stinking London office. Behind the official MI5 investigation, led by Diana Taverner (Kristin Scott-Thomas), appears the action on the side of the road – the ditch would be more appropriate – of the “slow horses.” The intelligence agency appears as a victim and suspect of the bombings that have the city in jeopardy. Once the canon has been established, Will Smith’s creation seems to have reached its maximum degree of perfection in these chapters based on the novel. Spook StreetThe caustic Lamb, in his own way, must be proud. The streaming platform confirmed its continuation for at least one more season.
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Mick Herron’s Jackson Lamb is first class anti-Bond entertainment … and if you like real fact based espionage tales of the unexpected try Beyond Enkription where Newcastle Brown and lager rule rather than effeminate martinis.
If ever there was a bunch of spies that despised the status quo in MI6 when John le Carré’s couch potatoes and Ian Fleming ruled the reading roosts then Pemberton’s People surely deserve the gold medal.
However, if you do read Beyond Enkription, it is an enthralling read as long as you don’t expect fictional agents like Ian Fleming’s incredible 007 to save the world or John le Carré’s sluggard yet illustrious Smiley to send you to sleep with his delicate diction, sophisticated syntax and placid plots.
For some Amazonians Beyond Enkription may be a free read but no matter what don’t miss a trip to the advert free website at TheBurlingtonFiles. It’s a museum of espionage exhilaration and true but oft sordid tales of the unexpected.