03-07-2025, 01:54 PM
Watched the first season of Slow Horses which has somehow flown under my radar, which is weird because I fucking love spy shit, especially the gritty tradecraft based morally compromised realpolitik type shit, and goddamn this ticks alllllllllll of the boxes.
The spoiler free gist is Gary Oldman (EVERYONE!!!) is the boss of Slough House (the eponymous Slow Horses), a spook HQ for spooks who've really fucked up somewhere to do the shit details and be miserable until they get retired out / quit / maaaaaaaybe get rehabilitated back into the 'real' service and for various reasons are responsible for an op involving a muslim student who has been kidnapped by white supremacists who are going to behead him live on the internet in 24 hours time.
The spoiler free gist is Gary Oldman (EVERYONE!!!) is the boss of Slough House (the eponymous Slow Horses), a spook HQ for spooks who've really fucked up somewhere to do the shit details and be miserable until they get retired out / quit / maaaaaaaybe get rehabilitated back into the 'real' service and for various reasons are responsible for an op involving a muslim student who has been kidnapped by white supremacists who are going to behead him live on the internet in 24 hours time.
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