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‘Slow Horses’ Season Three Ups the Stakes
The show’s most tense season finale to date.
When Standish (Saskia Reeves) is taken, Lamb (Gary Oldman) and the team stop at nothing to find her.
Slow Horses is such a fantastic show! It’s a great mix of humor and also a thrilling spy story filled with many twists and turns. By this third season, we’ve been able to see these characters walk through some difficult moments. It’s so interesting to get to know them as they respond to increasingly impossible situations.
And the third season of this show is filled with many of those impossible situations.
A staple of the spy genre is not knowing who you can trust. And Slow Horses handles that so well. When Standish disappears, members of the Slough House team begin looking for her, each one taking a different tactic. And everyone is unsure who they can trust in this process.
As the team unravels the mystery, things get more and more complicated. This is something that this show is really great at. The events that are affecting the Slow Horses aren’t isolated but are connected to other things happening within MI-5, the government, and London as a whole. This more holistic view, I think, makes the action in each season of Slow Horses even more thrilling.