WARNING: SLOW HORSES SPOILERS AHEAD
So I’m getting some pushback on my Slow Horses recommendation from people who did not care for the woke storyline of its first season.
I recommend you give it another chance and watch the whole season, because by the end of that first season you realize the plot is actually quite “anti-woke.”
The storyline of that season revolves around a terror plot in the UK. The plot is perpetrated by white English nationalists in a group called the “Sons of Albion” and their target is peaceful Muslim immigrants.
Totally woke, right? A total inverse of the real threat in the UK, right?
Or so it seems.
I made the same mistake initially.
But if you watch the season till its end, you realize that the Sons of Albion were actually a false-flag op set up by the Deep State bureaucrats at MI5 headquarters in order to discredit the legitimate English patriot movement.
The bad guys are the UK deep state. The good guys are the misfits at Slough House battling against the nefarious plots of MI5 HQ at “The Park.” The Sons of Albion and the kidnapped Muslim immigrant are both collateral damage in a false flag, Deep State op gone awry.
Like I said, there is a lot more in that first season than you can realize unless you watch it to the end.
Moreover, every season ultimately reveals the MI5 Deep State bureaucrats as the real villains.
Not woke at all.
Apple TV+ has definitely not lost its fastball on Slow Horses.
Two episodes in to the sixth season and it's better than ever.
Gary Oldham is sooooo good.