Do you have any other Apple + recs for the remaining two and a half months I'll have it?
I am crashing into this thread to recommend with all possible alacrity Slow Horses (2022–) if you haven't seen it: I have read none of the source novels by Mick Herron, but after two seasons the show remains a strikingly successful balance of wickedly funny deconstruction and everyone in the story being people, so that no one is lightly disposable for the sake of a joke and the stakes never spiral too unbelievably even when national security is involved; it has not pushed its shambolic tone into the weightlessness of pure spoof or cynicism and it admits its descent (more like a drunken tumble down the stairs) from le Carré and Deighton in the fun, sensible fashion where if you are equipped to detect the shout-outs, it adds a little to the world to catch them as they ricochet by, and if not it does no damage to the story. The whole thing feels like a high-wire act, which means that even as I am waiting for the already filmed third and fourth seasons to air I am nervous because there are so many directions in which the show could step slightly wrong and blow its emotional precision off at the knees, but I live in hope that maybe, unlike its characters, it will just keep doing everything right.
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I am crashing into this thread to recommend with all possible alacrity Slow Horses (2022–) if you haven't seen it: I have read none of the source novels by Mick Herron, but after two seasons the show remains a strikingly successful balance of wickedly funny deconstruction and everyone in the story being people, so that no one is lightly disposable for the sake of a joke and the stakes never spiral too unbelievably even when national security is involved; it has not pushed its shambolic tone into the weightlessness of pure spoof or cynicism and it admits its descent (more like a drunken tumble down the stairs) from le Carré and Deighton in the fun, sensible fashion where if you are equipped to detect the shout-outs, it adds a little to the world to catch them as they ricochet by, and if not it does no damage to the story. The whole thing feels like a high-wire act, which means that even as I am waiting for the already filmed third and fourth seasons to air I am nervous because there are so many directions in which the show could step slightly wrong and blow its emotional precision off at the knees, but I live in hope that maybe, unlike its characters, it will just keep doing everything right.