Police have released a new CCTV image of a man who was last seen three weeks ago. Officers believe this image is the last sighting of Francis Higman, from Oldham.
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Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticAs anyone who’s even fleetingly dipped into the vast, storied genre of the British spy thriller can attest, there are a few different games afoot in “Slow Horses.” What looks at first like a story of restless, demoted spies finding their purpose gets quickly twisted up in MI5 politics. Then, a couple of hours into the six-episode season, the show tries to turn everything we thought we knew inside out.
With its starry cast, handsome budget, and slick cinematography, the new Apple TV Plus drama (based on a Mick Herron novel and executive produced by Graham Yost) works hard to differentiate itself from every other MI5 narrative we’ve seen before. By season’s end, “Slow Horses” feels more familiar than truly innovative, albeit with some sharper acting and jokes than most others it’s following.
Case in point is the show’s choice to cast Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb, a jaded spy who spends most of his days drinking and mocking his charges (i.e. agents that MI5 has otherwise rejected, or the aforementioned “slow horses”).
As befits the actor synonymous with films like “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” Lamb is a role Oldman could do in his sleep. Nevertheless, he brings a compelling friction to the series that particularly pops when Lamb’s cracking his snidest jokes.It’d be a misnomer, however, to say that “Slow Horses” is “a Gary Oldman show” when Jackson Lamb isn’t the show’s most pivotal spy character at all.
In fact, Oldman’s best scenes come down to his prickly energy opposite the able costars, who counterbalance the acidic Lamb and end up shouldering more of the show’s emotional weight. For one, Jack Lowden (“Small Axe,” “Dunkirk”) proves himself a standout scene partner for Oldman as River
.Police have released a new CCTV image of a man who was last seen three weeks ago. Officers believe this image is the last sighting of Francis Higman, from Oldham.
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