The Slow Horses Season 5 story may be the biggest error in the show

This article contains Spoilers For “Slow Horses” Season 5, Episode 1: “Bad Dates”.

There are two things common between the first four seasons of “slow horses”. One of them is a unique mixture of Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) from an eager understanding, but it is a good perforated for the seven and the very doubtful character. The other is that the classes of chapters always explore the themes of the old guards of intelligence that collides with elegance. The first season does this through Rush James Bond and Annab River Cartrait (Jack Ludine), and all the following three seasons see that slow horses move in explosions from the past, which become either very personal. The spying masters take care of the Cold War era, the results that need to be settled, and spying in exchange for strange espionage against the background of prominent kidnappings and terrorist attacks, the unforgettable exhibition figures and its almost recreational reactions. The most destructive moments of “slow horses” She is always a personality, not patriotic. For this reason a very great chain.

Unfortunately, the “slow horses” width of the Fifth Season “Bad Dates” casts many things mentioned above from the window in favor of becoming in a timely manner like spy show that can get away with existence. Instead of a group of whipped by intelligence and calm moral mystery, it paves the way for a plot full of free fire. and A high-risk political battle between a regular political and the type “Disruptor”- all before the episode is mid-road.

The “slow horses” have never innovated about the threats and modern issues, but the usual espionage mode on the back stove in favor of dealing with every social political problem there is a wild mood swing. It may raise the risks, but it also collects some of its magic.

“Slow horses” is a spy movie that benefits from many secret saucesIncluding a wonderful collection, great characters and a conspiracy that drives the envelope only enough. However, strange eternity in the width is the component that connects everything else together. While the world (and the intelligence community) around it may adopt modernity and luxury technology, Slough House is in time to fold time, with the exception of the cell phone and the computer at times, for example, for example, the fifties and beyond. They may frustrate terrorist attacks and mobility in the complexities of modern society, but slow horses are unexpected in time. This series contains material files, largely immortal cabinets (except Christopher Chung Hu Hu Hu), and leading the home base on the top floor is actually a dirty version of the Noir B office. The best spy show on flow It has his own style that cannot work without one foot in the past.

That is why the time that the fifth show for the fifth season throws the viewer – “See, here are 10 things that can happen in the real world now!” – It is very jaring. Yes, there is an opportunity to link the series all with the elegant bow (if it is a little similar) long ago. Yes, it should be noted that the presentation depends on the novels of Mick Heron – in the case of the Fifth Season, “London Rules” – and it cannot be blamed for adapting the source materials. However, the point related to “slow horses” has become suddenly road In time of the usual situations as long as the fifth season in such a rush to throw all the contemporary threats you can think about on the screen.

“Slow horses” flows on Apple TV+.