We’re going to put it out there: yes, Apple TV+'s Slow Horses is great, but are there heaps of other brilliant spy thrillers that are just as pleasing, if not more so? We think so. In fact, we know so. From oldies (2018’s The Little Drummer Girl) to newbies (Leo Woodall’...
If all that just sounds like the confused ravings of a diseased mind to you, then you need to catch up with BBC One’s finest crime dramaLine of Dutyand literally get withthe programme. Vicky McClure, Martin Compston and Adrian Dunbar play the police in charge of sniffing out wrong...
utterly unencumbered by emotional investments. Gatehouse’s troubling affectlessness resurrects the ambiguous terrors of Cold War thrillers and paranoia-tinged curiosities such asThe Prisoner; behind this, perhaps, lies a conviction that TV’s real strength is its capacity to leave the viewer with una...