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Slow Horses Got the Chance to Get Comfortable
When a series perfects its formula, even the weakest seasons feel like a triumph.
It’s trended more toward sci-fi recently ( Umbrella Academy, Stranger Things, The Boys, Game of Thrones ’s Unsullied), yes, but the trope is so well known it’s hard to muster the shocked disgust Slow Horses seems to expect as Cartwright pokes his way around an abandoned schoolroom/military-training ground. The series resolutely refuses to become cuddly or sweet; its band of misfit toys will never coalesce into a functional group of outcast avengers, and when they die, their selfishness and imperfections — their unpleasant humanity — make their deaths all the more upsetting. Anthology series like the ones dotting Ryan Murphy’s oeuvre build a show over a season but lose any of the slow-burn relationship chemistry that gives Slow Horses its emotional oomph.
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