{"id":35308,"date":"2025-09-24T15:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T15:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/35308\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T15:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T15:08:09","slug":"critics-slow-horses-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/35308\/","title":{"rendered":"Critics: Slow Horses | Critics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"picture\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Slow Horses\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1460712_slowhorses_958331.jpg\"   loading=\"eager\" class=\"lazyloaded\" width=\"8055\" height=\"5369\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is glorious fun, a taut, twisty and enjoyable thriller laced with so many funny moments. Gary Oldman continues to be mesmerising to watch, even when hoofing down a fried breakfast or letting rip one of his trademark bottom whispers.\u201d<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/culture\/tv-radio\/article\/slow-horses-series-five-review-lcgzhhhmx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Dowell, The Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first episode of the new series suggests we\u2019re in for another darkly comic thrill ride as good as any of the previous outings.\u201d<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/culture\/television\/slow-horses-review-excellent-churning-out-series-3931191\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Neil Armstrong, The i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe performances remain superb, the script is as sharp as they come, and the comedy\/action balance is handled beautifully.\u201d<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/tv\/reviews\/slow-horses-season-5-review-release-gary-oldman-b2832508.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Bennion, The Independent<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSlow Horses is unusual: a long-running show that hasn\u2019t had a drop-off in quality. There is a supreme sense of confidence about the way it is put together. Let\u2019s hope they can keep it up.\u201d<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/tv\/0\/slow-horses-series-5-apple-review\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anita Singh, The Telegraph<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeason five isn\u2019t really about white nationalists, or environmental activists, or hostile foreign actors, and yet it is also about all of those things, all at once. As a result, it is overstuffed and strangely lacking in substance. Worse still, people-pleasing agent River Cartwright (Jack Lowden) has undergone a personality bypass, and spends much of the series acting in a way that can only be described as unnervingly dickish.\u201d<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2025\/sep\/24\/slow-horses-season-five-review-not-even-gary-oldman-can-salvage-this-tv-mess\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hannah J Davis, The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt is glorious fun, a taut, twisty and enjoyable thriller laced with so many funny moments. Gary Oldman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-35308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}