‘Slow Horses’ writer compares season three deaths to ‘Game Of Thrones’

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Slow Horses is “a huge step up in terms of the scale and the level of action” fans can expect to see from the new season, according to the show’s showrunner, executive producer and writer, Will Smith.Smith, who also wrote for The Thick Of It and Veep, told NME ahead of season three’s release that despite the increased action, it was still important that Slow Horses “felt like the same show” and that it “didn’t suddenly go off into feeling like it was just generic action.” He continued: “We still felt like it was our characters involved in it, and it still had the humour and the drama: it still felt like our show.”The group of disgraced MI5 rejects are back in a new series which sees the addition of Gangs of London star Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, whose partner is killed in mysterious circumstances while both are working for MI5. “Oh I love Ṣọpẹ́, he’s an amazing actor,” Smith says. “What he did particularly for the series was incredible because it’s all motivated by [his character’s] grief and guilt at the death of the woman he loves and wanting justice and vengeance for her.“All the things that happen in the series to him could be outlandish if they weren’t grounded in the grief Ṣọpẹ́ portrays.

You understand why he’s doing what he’s doing and the lengths he will go to. You feel his pain and anguish.”Gary Oldman’s cranky but wise old spy Jackson Lamb is back too, and Smith says he loves writing outrageous lines for Oldman in the same way he did for Peter Capaldi’s Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It.“It gives you license to do and say all sorts of things,” he laughed. “There’s probably a similarity in the sort of swearing and the kind of floridity of insults,” he said of Malcom and Jackson.He continued: “You also get to know how the.