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Apple TV's New Spy Yarn ‘Slow Horses’ Offers an Unconventional Ride
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Apple TV's New Spy Yarn ‘Slow Horses’ Offers an Unconventional Ride

Gary Oldman & co. shine in a dark spy thriller right out of le Carré

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Apr 08, 2022
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In the new TV spy thriller, Slow Horses (Apple TV+, new episodes on Fridays), we follow the fortunes of a team of broken down British counterspies and their alcoholic, belching wreck of a boss, played to perfection by Gary Oldman. Trailing along with them, through the halls of smoke and cracked mirrors and creaky old doors, we are invited to ask: Is red…

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