Mick Herron (Newcastle, 1963) published in 2010 the novel that has given rise to this 6-episode series that has already confirmed a second and third season. The peculiarity of the story is that the protagonists are not James Bond-style spies, but agents condemned for unforgivable mistakes in the British MI6 to sit forever in a Kafkaesque office. Their leader is a sarcastic Gary Oldman, who tries to make the time his fellow Swampers are in the office as pointless as possible. "We get paid to do nothing." In front of them they will have a Machiavellian character played by Kristin Scott Thomas, a symbol of the sewers of the State.

The creator of the series is James Hawes, a veteran of British television, with 20 years of profession in which he has stood out for titles such as The Mill, Undercover and some episodes of Black Mirror. Slow Horses has a very complementary casting, with well-known actors and other regular faces of British fiction such as Jack Lowden(The Passing bales, Small Axe), Chris Reilly(Devils, The Feed), Dustin Demri-Burns(The Great, Britannia) or Saskia Reeves(Belgravia, Luther). The plot combines occasional moments of savage violence and a very clever English irony, to develop a very appropriate rhythm for each chapter. The script avoids the danger of becoming a parodic attraction about the special security and espionage corps, to end up being a lucid diagnosis of the main governmental institutions.

The soundtrack by Daniel Pemberton(The Trial of the Chicago 7, Molly's Game, Dark Crystal), a composer who never stops growing, generates a very peculiar and necessary atmosphere to portray this sympathetic group of losers. The song Strange game by Mick Jagger included in the credits gives the necessary clues to adjust the tone of a series that takes the viewer with great talent where he wants.

Signature: Claudio Sánchez