[Moonlight]

Slow Horses 2022.

Slough House is a dumping ground for members of the intelligence service who have screwed up, left a service file on a train or have blown a surveillance, or become drunkenly unreliable, they're the services poor relations. A dysfunctional team of MI5 agents and their obnoxious boss, the notorious Jackson Lamb, navigate the espionage world's smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.



I like the premise of this series, spying is not all glam and travel like a James Bond movie, but ranges from the mundane surveillance to the disgusting such as going through someone's rubbish.
Each character is fleshed out throughout the episodes and their flaws, of which there are many are actually their main assets.
The boss man, Jackson Lamb, is brilliantly played by Gary Oldman, lank greasy hair, questionable hygiene habits, a flatulent chain smoker, who, despite his disparaging comments about and to his team, will go to the wall for them.
This is more like an incompetent Columbo type series, some of the characters are so thick I wondered how MI5 employed them in the first place, but, as we've all seen over the years, the stupid always get rewarded somehow.

TV Series Rating 7.5\10.

There was the usual Woke bollocks in this series but, if you look beyond all that nonsense you'll find out that this show is pretty good.