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Get on the Fast Train to Slow Horses
Think of 24 with a soul, and also everyone you’re rooting for is kind of terrible at their job.
Based on the series of books by Mick Herron, Slow Horses follows the adventures of a group of spies who work out of Slough House, a kind of dumping ground for wayward souls who didn’t hack it in the main office of MI5. And here’s the best part, if you’re thinking about starting and want to catch up quick: Slow Horses follows the very British model of six-episode seasons, which means you can get through the first three in one or two lazy weekends and jump straight into the fourth as its weekly release drips out. But the main thing is that Jackson Lamb is a great television character, a truly original creation who can probably best be described as “Columbo + Scrooge + IBS.” Oldman seems to be having a hoot in the role, too, which has landed him one of the show’s aforementioned Emmy nominations.
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