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A disorderly London office at night, a single desk lamp burning over scattered papers

Slow Horses Season 4: The Gary Oldman Show

A year on from Season 4, Slow Horses is still the most consistently-good spy drama on television. An argument for the show that has quietly become one of the best.

Priya Nair·12 Oct·5 min

A 1970s Los Angeles street at night, a cinema marquee glowing in the rain

The Sympathizer: Park Chan-wook's American Adaptation

Park Chan-wook's HBO adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen's novel is the most formally audacious prestige TV of the spring. A show about duality delivered by a director who specialises in it.

Priya Nair·14 Jun·5 min

A New York brownstone kitchen at night, an open bottle of wine on the counter

Mr & Mrs Smith: The Show That Figured Out Television

Donald Glover and Francesca Sloane's Amazon spy drama is not a remake. It is a character study dressed as a spy show, and it works because of what it refuses to be.

Priya Nair·22 Mar·5 min