‘Slow Horses’ review: Violence overwhelms Season 3 of the sardonic spy series
The third season of “Slow Horses” is initially about files. That’s right, paperwork. Scintillating!
That’s not sarcasm. I’m a sucker for paperwork stories. And it feels like the right choice for this sardonic, John Le Carre-flavored spy series set in the U.K. With its ragtag team of MI5′s least capable — who somehow save the day regardless — “Slow Horses” (on Apple TV+) is more about brains than brawn.
And yet, this season the show devolves into a spectacle of nonstop violence. So much so that I was taken aback.
Were the first two seasons filled with endless scenes of gunfire and bloodshed? Not to my memory. The series has always featured
