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Mark, Lawrence, Sarahlyn and Al discuss the Apple TV+ British spy show based on the novels of Mick Herron adapted by Will Smith (the British one), which are in turn firmly in a tradition of anti-007 books by John le Carré. Not coincidentally, Gary Oldman is the star both of Slow Horses and of the 2010 version of le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. The point is not to glamorize the spy service, but to use realism and black humor to stress the human cost and general boredom of this work along with the dysfunctional nature of the institutions involved.
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