SLOW HORSES SEASON 5 REVIEW
Slow Horses Season 5 wastes no time setting up the stakes, starting with a brutal mass shooting in the heart of London. This kicks off a series of terrorist attacks in a politically divided city during the midst of a fraught mayoral campaign. Ordinarily, this would be a job for MI5’s finest, but sometimes the only solution to a problem is another problem; namely the Slow Horses. These are the agents who’ve been put out to pasture and exiled to Slough House, the depository for MI5’s biggest screw-ups and PR nightmares. These misfit spies are supervised by the odious Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) who more resembles a dozen HR violations crammed into a fetid, whiskey soaked raincoat than he does a legendary spymaster. Despite his appearance (and odor), Lamb and his crew of screw-ups have a way of saving the day, cleaning up MI5’s mess, and never getting the credit for it. And that’s if they’re lucky enough to survive; death being a regular occupational hazard for a Slow Horse. Based on Mick Herron’s best selling series of novels, the Slough House series lacks the glamour of James Bond or the ruthless efficiency of Jason Bourne. Instead, we get something closer to John Le Carré, if he were a staff writer for The Office, which is just fine with our reviewers Eion, Dom, and Marco. They’re all big fans of the show, but did this latest batch of episodes live up to the high standards set by the previous seasons? You’ll have to listen to the review to find out!
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CREATED BY: Will Smith
STARRING: Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jonathan Pryce, Saskia Reeves, Rosalind Eleazar, Christopher Chung, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Tom Brooke, Samuel West, Naomi Wirthner, Ruth Bradley, James Callis, Nick Mohammed, Hiba Bennani, Christopher Villiers, Victoria Hamilton, Cherrelle Skeete, Monty Ben, Fady Elsayed, Ahmed Elmusrati
YOUR REVIEWERS
Marco Noyola (Digital Noise, Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad, Audio Editor)
By day, Marco is a mild-mannered office worker, but by night he is a mild-mannered movie watcher. He does other mild-mannered stuff too.
“I’m not a film critic. I just play one on the Internet.”
Jordan Cobb (Screener Squad)
Born with a comic book in one hand, a camera in the other, and in front of the television as WrestleMania played out, Jordan Worth Cobb was thus birthed into this crazy world. A Digital Filmmaking major from the University of Central Arkansas, Jordan has done it all in film from directing, writing, editing, and producing in addition to skills involved in film and TV criticism, journalism, and years of podcasting experience. On any given day, her ADHD riddled brain bounces focus from film to pro wrestling to TV to superheroes to noir to video games to espionage and yes, even to sports. She played little league you know. For more of this eccentric nerd, you can read her original writings on
Deepest Corners of My Notebook.
Dominic Rizzi (Screener Squad, Highly Suspect Reviews)
Born and raised in the Hudson Valley, NY, Dom “the Movie Nerd” Rizzi fell in love with film at a young age. After majoring in film in both community college and achieving a Bachelor’s degree in film from SUNY Oswego, Dom went on to start his own podcast Talkin’ TV during Covid before studying acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City. Relentlessly passionate about everything related to film, Dom has shot and produced several short films, as well as having written several scripts. Working at a liquor store by day, Dom has continued to pursue his passion for cinema in any capacity he can,
