James Delingpole James Delingpole

Still the best thing on TV: Apple TV+’s Slow Horses reviewed

Plus: if you want to feel really depressed, I highly recommend Squid Game: The Challenge

Gary Oldman’s Jackson Lamb could sit there breaking wind for an entire episode, and still you’d watch, enthralled 
issue 09 December 2023

Slow Horses is the best thing on television. And it’s now so successful and popular it can afford to launch series three with a sequence worthy of James Bond: Istanbul location budget; spectacular chase sequences involving cars and speedboats with some thrillingly dangerous manoeuvres round a huge container vessel; a beautiful, immaculately dressed female agent meeting (spoiler alert, though to be fair you can see this one coming a mile off) a tragically sticky end.

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