Spies, Television
TV: Tehran (Season 2)
While Apple’s Israeli-produced, Iran-set thriller Tehran is by no means as impressive as its hit spy series Slow Horses,…
January 9, 2023-
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Fiction, Spies, Television, ThrillerTV: Slow Horses (Season 2)
In year chock-full of wonderful shows, Apple’s Slow Horses, based on the intricate, funny spy novels of Mick Herron,…
December 31, 2022 -
Fiction, Spies, ThrillerNovel: Real Tigers by Mick Herron
Mick Herron makes this stuff look easy. Effortlessly read, fast-paced, and funny, Real Tigers (2016) is the third full Slough House…
November 9, 2022 -
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, TelevisionTV: The Resort (Season 1)
In an incredible year of television, it’s impossible not to notice the pattern: the shows that speak to my…
September 3, 2022 -
Fiction, Mystery, SpiesNovella: The List by Mick Herron
In between the major novels of the Slough House spy series, Mick Herron has also penned a handful of…
August 7, 2022 -
Drama, Spies, Television, ThrillerTV: Slow Horses (Season 1)
I’ve only read the first two novels of Mick Herron’s Slough House series, but they’re pretty solid evidence he’s…
May 3, 2022 -
Fiction, SpiesNovel: Dead Lions by Mick Herron
If Slow Horses was the tempting bait, Mick Herron’s Dead Lions (2013) is the enthralling hook, not just a…
December 17, 2021 -
Fiction, Mystery, SpiesNovel: Slow Horses by Mick Herron
It was time for some classic British spy fiction, and this time I stumbled randomly across Mick Herron’s Slow…
October 23, 2021