agent.
A job type that is very impressive in the audience’s mind.
has cool moves and strong skills, walking on the edge of death.
is personable, with beautiful women accompanying him, and he is well dressed and moves well.
But as mentioned above, in today's drama-
pass. Pass. All. without. have. In the first episode of
, the male protagonist failed the mission due to hearing impairment. Terrorists blew up the train, killing 120 citizens (fortunately it was just a drill).
The two sides merged.
Our "senior" agent was sure of victory, but the next second his gun barrel jammed and he was almost killed.
The entire department smelled of insufficient funds, and the team members looked old, weak, and disabled, like a nursing home.
however.
is such an agent that " destroys ". Not only did he kill all kinds of terrorists, but also raised the Douban score from 8.6 to 9.1.
The third season has not yet finished airing, but AppleTV has renewed it for four or five seasons.
Recently, the fourth season of the work is scheduled to be broadcast in September. The original cast of
is back.
focuses on a sudden massive explosion.
is full of murderous intent and undercurrents.
Can they save the day once again?
Let's review this show together today -
"Flower"
slow horses
2022.4.1 UK
》》》》Non-mainstream agent
The play is adapted from the series of novels of the same name by mick herron.
The story of each season is independent, with six episodes per season, short and concise.
revolves around the protagonist group, the Slough department (slough house: House of Despair) under MI5, which is facing various crises. The original drama name of
is slowhorses, which is literally translated as slow horse or inferior horse.
is translated as "Liu Ren", that is, an exiled person.
corresponds to the spy movie "Ronin". The Ronin is tragic in his old age, while the Ronin is passive and loose, which are the two normal conditions of agents after the Cold War. How unorganized is
?
You will know what the department boss looks like 👇
Poor office environment
Waking up by his own fart
Gary Oldman.
The perverted villain in "The Killer Is Too Cold";
The actor who plays Churchill in "Darkest Hour";
Oscar winner.
dominates the film industry with its contrasting characters.
In this play, he plays Lamb Jackson, the boss of the Slough department.
is a boss who is unkempt, swears frequently, doesn't seek advancement, and just wants to let his subordinates take advantage of him.
Jack Lowden.
was the handsome pilot in "Dunkirk".
In the play, he plays River Cartwright, who is demoted to the Slough Department. His first week's task is to dig through trash cans ('s workload in a week).
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There are all kinds of ghosts and monsters in this team.
For example, a tech nerd who browses pictures of muscular men at work.
A middle-aged man and woman develop an office romance while performing tasks.
There are also gambling and drug taking.
Why are there so many weird things?
Because the Slough department has other names:
Waste Department, Exile Department, Fishing Department, and Promotion Department .
They were all transferred here because of various "misdeeds" (the ones mentioned above).
coupled with the leadership’s “governing by doing nothing”. No one can be promoted or transferred from this department, and can only maintain a mediocre institutional life day after day.
Until this day, the arrival of the male protagonist River, the one who rummaged through the trash can, was like a live fish entering stagnant water.
The young man is smart and motivated, and wants to prove his ability to return to the headquarters, stirring up the entire department.
He overheard the conversation between his boss and his colleagues and launched an "extracurricular investigation" without authorization.
As the investigation deepened step by step, he discovered that he had been framed. The
headquarters was involved, thus unveiling a larger conspiracy...
》》》》Apocalypse of Cow Horse in the Workplace
Since then, the agents of the Slough department officially began their busy careers.
not only has less funds and poor equipment, but the workload has also increased exponentially, and the risks it faces are unmatched by other departments.
They are more like hard-working workers in reality than agents.
Do the heaviest work for the least money.
Under normal circumstances, the agents at the headquarters do the aftermath work every time they go out into the field, just like the belated police officers in major crime movies.
But our protagonist group is different. They are called "inferior horses" and they do the cheapest work.
must not only secretly investigate the ins and outs of the entire case, but also be blamed by the headquarters at the right time.
In the second season, they face the extremist terrorists , who are trying to recreate the 9/11 incident in the UK. At this time, the senior management stayed out of the matter and Liu Ren took the lead. The villain of the first and third seasons of
is exactly the same, which is mi5 (military intelligence, section 5) of the agent headquarters.
They staged two bluff kidnappings to interfere in the political situation, but things inevitably went wrong.
In order to cover up the truth, the headquarters chose to make mistakes.
While eliminating all the insiders, find a target to take the blame. This target is naturally the most useless Slough department below.
As the investigation deepened, the murderous disaster came quietly.
They not only have to rescue the hostages from the out-of-control kidnappers, but also avoid being pursued by their superiors.
On the other side, the department’s embarrassment determines the poverty of employees.
The funding gap between the Slough department and the headquarters can be clearly seen from the comparison of the office areas.
The styles of the bosses of the two parties are also completely different.
A lady with dignified temperament, like a lady, who goes in and out of high-end office buildings.
I haven't changed my clothes, my hair looks like it hasn't been washed in a week, and I eat at the Chinese restaurant downstairs every day.
The boss of the department is like this, how can the people below him be any better?
was short of cash during the investigation. He was rejected from changing jobs in the second season and was ridiculed when he came to the headquarters to submit documents.
What’s even more annoying is that they have a boss with a bad mouth and a tough mouth.
During the idle working day, he scolded the employees to relieve their boredom. When the
department was being hunted and on the run, he encouraged him by saying, "Everyone here is rubbish." Viewers of
Dou M even compiled his numerous curse words and relived them every time.
What’s even more annoying is that this boss has real skills.
Lamb Jackson. The legendary agent of
mi5, he was ranked second not because of incompetence, but because he was tired of the power struggle at the top.
He knows things like a god . He has already known the clues that the male protagonist has worked so hard to find.
He is a cunning , and he talks to the suspect, pretending to be a guarantee for the other party's safety, and captures the information at hand.
He is also like a mother , often doing things like protecting cubs and wiping buttocks. For example, rescuing a department member who was arrested by the police for carrying small pills with him.
So the cows and horses can only succumb to it, starving to death and making no money.
Because the work of the protagonist group is too hard.
The audience is attracted by their working temperament and often forgets that their true identity is an agent.
has the risk of "disappearing" at any time.
The eye-catching female agent sid in the first season was shot and hospitalized during a mission. After that, her personal information was erased and she disappeared.In the second season of
, min, who was conducting the investigation, was assassinated from behind while drinking wine and disguised as an accident.
And Lamb's secretary, Slough's second brain Catherine , was kidnapped at the beginning of the third season.
Even the entire department may be obliterated by a word from the top. In the third season of
, a team of special forces aimed their guns at their own people.
Despite this, the protagonist group managed to survive despite all difficulties.
Everyone here has their own special agent soul. No matter how hard the work is, it is also the embodiment of mission, properly generating electricity for love.
They get to the bottom of the cases that others have ignored.
was determined to be an accidental crime, and the investigation revealed the truth.
The male protagonist who should have been fired is also dormant in the "Waste Department", trying to fight for a turnaround.
in the upcoming fourth season.
A bomb detonated in a busy shopping mall, killing 0 innocent civilians.
slowhorses takes action again to find the mastermind behind the terrorist attack before the situation escalates.
The boss who still has a bad mouth, and the awesome agent who still works hard.
html See you in May, what kind of sparks will burst out.
》》》》The Self-deconstruction of the British Agent
They say this drama is subversive, but it is actually the spy drama closest to reality.
It has a strong "self-defeating" nature.
The agents who do practical things are unkempt, and the people from the headquarters who are high-minded are in suits and ties. The irony is the traditional "gentleman" agent who underlines his sense of cultural superiority.
The various blunders and unprofessionalism of the agents in the drama reflect a series of psychedelic operations carried out by the British government in reality. The story of the second season of
begins at a bus stop.
The irony is an intelligence leak that actually happened in the UK in 2021.
In 2021, British agents left nearly 50 pages of confidential documents at a bus stop. An enthusiastic citizen picked it up and handed it to the BBC.
is outrageous.
bbc not only reported the loss, but also laid out the contents of the document:
Secret Investigation into Russia's Maritime Military Activities.
This also explains to the outside world why the British navy appeared in the waters of Crimea not long ago.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zakharova took the opportunity to ridicule:
With bus stations in the UK, we don’t need to spend time training hackers.
This is not just an isolated case.
From the humble official to the British Prime Minister, everyone has made jokes because of similar "mistakes".
For example, at a meeting in India in 2012, British officials left behind a USB flash drive containing confidential data about a nuclear power plant.
"downloading data" itself violates internal regulations, not to mention it falls in India.
"Yes, Prime Minister"
Another example is the various "document exposure incidents" that we like to hear about.
In 2009, anti-terrorism officer Bob Quick was photographed in the field.
What he was holding in his hand was a confidential document on an anti-terrorism mission. The arrangement of the tasks was clearly visible in the
photo, the plan was disrupted, and Quick resigned under pressure soon after.
In 2010, Treasury Chief Secretary Danny Alexander was photographed holding a memorandum. It reads:
It is expected that 490,000 people will be laid off in the UK public sector .
As soon as the news came out, civil servants were in an uproar.
In 2011, International Development Minister Mitchell was also photographed holding a memo. The above is an Afghan document on an internationally sensitive topic:
We welcome the departure of the Afghan president...
This makes the already ugly relationship between the two countries even more embarrassing.
"Yes, Prime Minister"
's outrageous operation attracted the attention of the media.
has also attracted many film and television dramas to use it as a prototype, achieving an explosion of creativity.
The classic Bean series in film history, two "Bean Police" and three "Bean Agent" have been released one after another.
Netizens suddenly realized:
It turns out that Bean is still a documentary .
In the distant 1986, the United Kingdom launched the political satirical comedy "Yes, Prime Minister" with frequent golden sentences and high reputation.
Douban received a score of 9.8 from 40,000 people. It is a masterpiece.
In the second season of "The Fugitive", the person in charge of the intelligence department is a character named Peter Judd (Home Secretary).
His behavior is frivolous, which is incompatible with the professional calmness of the agent chief.
This character was originally used to satirize former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
But the second season will premiere in December 2022. Boris resigned in September of that year, so the crew deleted the previous satirical setting.
As for why he is satirizing the Prime Minister.
Because of the various psychedelic operations mentioned above, it also happened to British Prime Minister Cameron.
He had a reputation for being careless.
In 2013, Cameron took the "red box" containing confidential documents and boarded the train bound for York (to attend his wife's sister's wedding).
Later, he got off the train himself, but the box was left on the dining table of the train. No one was around, and the key to the box was still inserted on it.
Until a passerby discovered it:
At that time, the box was placed on the small table in front of the seat. If I wanted to, I could easily take it away .
news came out.
The British government flatly denied it, and the unanimous claim that the box was thrown away was completely false...
The outrageousness made people wonder: whether they did it on purpose.
after all.
There was a British drama that predicted the future.
"The only way you can get this document from me is if I accidentally lose it" - "Yes, Prime Minister"
