On the same platform, we have opposite examples of a good book adaptation. While The Buccaneers is offensive to anyone with a brain (even more so who read it!), Slow Horses remains true to its origins and fun, even when the adventures are as fanciful as this season’s.

We see that the original mission was just a test, and now the kidnapping of Catherine Standish (Saskia Reeves) is real and this worried Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman), smart as always, who knew from the beginning that whatever the reason, they would always be the scoundrels footing the bill, so in his own way, he’s saving his team.

Although he is further away from the always irritable Lamb, River Cartwright (Jack Lowden) is experiencing a more sensitive drama, at the same time that we discover something interesting about his life. Cartwright feels sorry for Spider’s death (perhaps the only one in all of MI5) but is now grieving because of his grandfather’s (Jonathan Pryce) increasingly advanced senility. Having been abandoned by his mother and losing his father as a child, he was raised by him, so he is his only family. Always trying to leave Slough House, he is once again a pawn in the political game between Ingrid Tearney (Sophia Okonedo) and Diana Taverner (Kristin Scott Thomas), which is an announcement that the future will be very wrong. For him.

And he doesn’t give anything else. Tearney decides to give in to the demands of the kidnappers, led at her request by Cartwright, only to have everyone killed afterward. Meanwhile, Lamb is on his way to save Standish.

It seems simple, it seems little, but the humor and perfect performances from everyone make this series something unmissable. And a success!

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