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After some mild complaints about the breathless, propulsive pacing of Slow Horses, “Returns” proves an apt title for a decisive episode in a season that felt unmoored as it crossed the halfway mark. The fourth episode did not give us all the answers we anticipated, but it gave us enough
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For a spy thriller, Slow Horses is paced strangely. As a TV thriller, you can’t fault how it moves: each of Mick Harron’s books is split into the UK-standard six sub-hour episodes (often under 45 minutes), and they clip through plot turns and character beats like nobody’s
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Everyone is familiar with William Tell, but few probably know much about him beyond the often-repeated story about the time he shot an arrow through an apple on top of his son's head. Somehow, the bit where that whole thing actually sparked a battle for Swiss independence seems
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Just when Apple TV+ seemed to have gotten into a groove, the little streaming service that no one watches other than critics decided to shake things up. The streaming service has a small group of reliable hits among its offerings (hits being an extremely relative term), with Slow Horses being
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If decades of Masterpiece dramas and three seasons of Hulu hit Only Murders in the Building have taught us anything, it's that literally anyone can solve crimes. Are you a restaurant owner? A parish priest? A book publicist? You, too, could be out there doing your bit to
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would probably be astonished and embarrassed at the manifestations of Sherlock Holmes on stage, the big and small screens, radio, comics, board games, and computer games. All over the world, audiences love Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, and the ink was barely dry on Sir
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Jonathan Pryce is an actor almost everyone likely recognizes, yet who somehow has never reached the heights of fame he's likely deserved as a performer. Having starred in everything from prestige films, blockbuster franchises, and popular television series to Broadway musicals and West End Shakespeare, the man has
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Is Slow Horses’ third season its best outing yet? So far, it seems likely. Last week, we had half the season under our belt and felt confident that, thanks to the high frequency of twists, pursuits, and conspiracies, Season 3 was the finest Slough House adventure thus far. With Episode
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Netflix's decision to split The Crown's final season in half was not really that hard to understand. The streaming service wanted to take advantage of the show's fanbase and get as many viewers watching the show as possible. Since it cannot actually admit that
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The end of an era is nigh: The final episodes of The Crown will debut on Netflix this December, bringing the streamer's lavish, incredibly expensive, and occasionally controversial drama about the reign of England's Queen Elizabeth II to an end. How exactly the series plans to
Wolf Hall
Masterpiece and the BBC have announced that filming will begin shortly on Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, the second installment based on Booker Prize-winning author Hilary Mantel's critically acclaimed trilogy of novels. Rumors have swirled for the past few years that a second season of Wolf
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Netflix’s The Crown is back for its sixth and final season, split into two parts for reasons Netflix refuses to explain. Whether it’s the material or an overly sensitive approach following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the first half of the final season (four episodes in all)