![]() At Slough House, spies like River Cartwright work under the auspices of the crass, crude, and perpetually farting (but deceptively brilliant) Jackson Lamb. The title Slow Horses is derived from Slough House, the name of the fictional MI5 branch where outcasts and screw-ups are sent to spend the remainder of their time with the service - and it might as well be a continent away from MI5’s glittering Regent’s Park headquarters. Jack Lowden as River Cartwright in “Slow Horses.” Image source: Apple The latter, with a star-studded cast that includes Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott Thomas, is an adaptation of Mick Herron’s spy novels that have made him something of an heir apparent to the late master of the genre himself, le Carre. Moving right along, Apple’s streaming service Apple TV+ also has two must-watch spy shows that I can’t say enough good things about: Tehran, and Slow Horses. Watch The Americans on Hulu Apple TV+ spy shows Luckily, there are exceptions that stand out - like the seven titles, below, that I’ve rounded up from across the streaming universe and which ought to be on the radar of any lover of spy and spy-adjacent series. I want a John le Carre-style puzzle box, something we don’t always get in the books, movies, and TV shows about spies and their craft. I want the hall of mirrors, the grey of the secret world, the blurred lines, and compromises. ![]() As a fan of the genre, I don’t look for a John Wick-style protagonist that shoots his way out of trouble. That’s not only one of my all-time favorite quotes from a spy novel it’s something of a yardstick, at least to me, that separates the wheat from the chaff. When we identify a network, we watch it, we listen to it, we penetrate it, and by degrees we control it.” We develop them and redirect them at bigger targets. “We are not policemen, we are spies,” goes the famous John le Carre quote from his novel A Most Wanted Man. ![]()
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