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Slow Horses Season 6, Episode 5 Review — 'Sayonara'

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Slow Horses Season 6, Episode 5 Review — 'Sayonara'

This review contains full spoilers for Slow Horses Season 6, Episode 5, which is streaming on Apple TV now.

“Sayonara,” the penultimate episode of Slow Horses Season 6, is just about as close to cinema as a single episode of TV can get… for better and worse. Set largely in foggy countrysides, the wide shots are hauntingly beautiful. It’s got big deaths (bye Jim, drowned in a lake) and twists (Jane survives the car crash!), high-stakes political drama (Diana Taverner’s heated committee hearing), classic spycraft (Jackson Lamb vs. Damien Cantor’s Russian contact), and tender moments between its characters (Sid Baker and River Cartwright, Catherine Standish and Reece Nesmith). Heck, it even ends with a grand gesture and huge car explosion. Slow Horses finally gets its Bond moment.

Oddly, it’s also sort of the antithesis to the series itself; since when do the Slow Horses get to have nice things? River (Jack Lowden) makes awful, nonsensical, emotionally driven decisions that seem to pan out mostly fine. The Horses posted up in Taverner’s country home are gorging on cookies and wine. River and Sid get to kiss, for chrissake! Those fleeting moments, however, are actually a bitter reminder that, no, it usually doesn’t turn out so well for the Slow Horses, as the season sprints to its finale that will, as Frank Harkness and his two minions promise, probably literally burn the house down. Diana Taverner’s holiday home, specifically.

Things pick up seconds after the last episode, where Sid Baker (Olivia Cooke) was kidnapped at gunpoint by confirmed GRU agents Jim (Kyle Soller) and Jane (MyAnna Buring), only now we’re seeing things from River’s perspective as he runs after their car.


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