The faultlessly directed spy thriller is back with an even more stellar cast – and its lead actor’s role evolving into something that is occasionally quietly beautiful
work out of, is not a peaceful place. The fixtures are decrepit, the decor hums with mid-century must, the office banter is neither respectful nor constructive and, by the end of the new run of Apple TV+’s prestige espionage drama, the windows are smashed and the walls are pocked with bullet holes.
Its return has plenty that is familiar. Straight away, two things happen. The closest the show has to a traditionally heroic pin-up, River Cartwright , voices his concern about his grandfather, old-school spymaster David , whose dementia is getting worse. Meanwhile, a London shopping centre is attacked by a suicide bomber. By now we know that these events will somehow prove not to be independent.
Look past the deceptively expensive shabby chic and the faultless direction, and Slow Horses is, often, sticking closely to genre tropes. But it never lets itself go stale, and the new episodes benefit from new blood in what is already a luxuriously fine cast. James Callis, who was one of TV’s best ever serpentine egomaniacs as Gaius Baltar in Battlestar Galactica, plays another smooth weasel in the form of fresh MI5 boss Claude Whelan.
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