![]() ![]() Herron’s central conceit is that the designated no-hopers and failures who have committed various sins are actually competent (and occasionally) brilliant agents who can excel where their superiors in their Regent’s Park headquarters cannot. It’s a bit like seeing the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reinvented as a gritty urban drama. ![]() Instead, we have a big-budget spy thriller, polished and scripted to within an inch of its life. Gone are the laugh-out-loud one-liners and endearingly witty pieces of throwaway badinage. Instead, it takes Herron’s uproariously comic premise - that a group of misfit British spies, cast out of MI5 for misdemeanors exaggerated and accurate alike, have been reduced to grubbing about in a grim office on the periphery of the City of London - and plays it almost entirely straight. It may come as a surprise to anyone who has read Mick Herron’s peerless Slough House novels, but Slow Horses, Apple TV’s high-profile adaptation of the first book in the series, is not funny. ![]()
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