‘Slow Horses’ S5 Finale, ‘Down Cemetery Road’ Premiere, and ‘The Lowdown’ E7

30 Oct 2025 · 56 min · 14 chapters

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In short

The Watch episode covers three things: the Slow Horses Season 5 finale, the first two episodes of Apple TV’s Down Cemetery Road, and The Lowdown episode 7 (“Tulsa Turnaround”).

Guests

Chris Ryan (editor at TheRinger.com) and Andy Greenwald (VJ Edgecombe, prestige British mysteries). Backgrounds: Ryan is a TV editor; Greenwald is a TV critic/podcaster focused on British crime and genre shows.

Key claims

Slow Horses S5 is “enjoyable” and tightly propulsive, with Gary Oldman’s monologue as a hinge point; the season ends with Jackson Lamb’s burned feet and hints at deeper backstory. The show’s strengths (mistakes, comic losers, Slough House’s purpose) risk becoming familiar, and cast dynamics feel thinner this season. Down Cemetery Road is praised for professionalism, Oxford setting, and emotional “heartbeat” via Ruth Wilson (Sarah Trafford) and Emma Thompson (Zoe). The Lowdown’s penultimate episode is described as beautiful but “shaggy,” resolving plotlines via physical-space staging.

Notable examples

FanDuel/Pepsi/Xfinity/State Farm ads; Slow Horses: “don’t be daft. I made it up.”; Down Cemetery Road: early dinner-party explosion and lasagna; The Lowdown: Ethan Hawke/Ryan Kira Armstrong father-daughter scene; Walter Mosley credited as writer.

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Chapters

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Hosts' Banter and Mood Check

0:51 to 1:40

The hosts discuss their current mood and excitement for upcoming events.

“I am an editor at TheRinger.com and joining me on the other line, the VJ Edgecombe of prestige British mysteries.”

Cultural Differences and Food Preferences

1:40 to 4:28

The hosts explore cultural differences in food flavors and personal preferences.

“Andy's been having some sleeping struggles.”

Taylor Sheridan's TV Projects

4:28 to 8:59

Discussion about Taylor Sheridan's deals and potential new TV shows.

“And I've heard it phrased as self-esteem.”

Taylor Sheridan's Billion Dollar Deal

14:00 to 18:14

Discussion on the implications of Taylor Sheridan's new deal and its impact on the streaming landscape.

“This police show set in Hawaii in the 1980s.”

Reflections on Slow Horses Season Finale

18:14 to 24:13

Review of the finale of Slow Horses, focusing on character development and season themes.

“I mean, do you think that that stuff is Paramount's IP?”

Critique of Season Five Dynamics

24:13 to 28:00

Analysis of character dynamics and storytelling in Slow Horses Season Five, addressing strengths and weaknesses.

“I think you just kind of wonder, like, why is Jackson being such a fucking prick all the time?”

Discussion on Slow Horses and Future Seasons

28:00 to 32:01

Exploration of character development and future storylines in 'Slow Horses'.

“the terror plot being rooted in English colonialism and the intelligence services kind of cutthroat abandonment of people in Libya.”

Discussion on Slow Horses and Future Seasons

32:08 to 33:25

Exploration of character development and future storylines in 'Slow Horses'.

“Getting help from one of State Farm's 19 ,000 local agents when you choose to bundle home and auto.”

Review of Down Cemetery Road

33:31 to 42:00

Discussion on the new show 'Down Cemetery Road' and its character dynamics.

“Since we're on the topic of Mick Heron, let's talk about Down Cemetery Road.”

Discussion on 'Down Cemetery Road'

42:00 to 44:35

Exploring the show 'Down Cemetery Road' and its characters.

“I will also say, I think you were right to frame this conversation as a non-spoiler.”
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Personal Anecdotes and Viewing Habits

44:35 to 46:38

Hosts share personal experiences and viewing habits regarding British mysteries.

“I'm having a marital argument because my wife saves a lot of shows to watch with her mother.”

Review of 'The Lowdown' Penultimate Episode

46:38 to 54:28

Analyzing the penultimate episode of 'The Lowdown' and its narrative elements.

“It's written by Walter Mosley, who wrote Devil in a Blue Dress and the Easy Rollins Mysteries and is one of the great crime writers of our lifetime, me and Andy's.”

Upcoming Shows and Conclusion

54:28 to 56:01

Hosts discuss upcoming shows and wrap up their conversation.

“And like even the moments that probably go by in a blink of eye and I or are just choices that they make details.”

Discussion on Upcoming Shows and Interviews

56:01 to 56:28

The hosts discuss upcoming episodes and an interview with Vince Gilligan.

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Transcript

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0:00Andy Greenwald:This summer, FanDuel is the best place to bet on goals. Including equalizers? Uh-huh. Balls? Yep. Headers? Every goal is worth more on FanDuel. So, let there be goals. New customers get$350 in bonus bets guaranteed when you bet$5 for 7 days. 21 plus in present and select states. First online real money wager only. Minimum$5 wager required for 7 consecutive days. $5 first deposit required. Bonus issued as non-withdrawable bonus bets, which expires 7 days after receipt. Restrictions apply. See full terms at fanduel.com slash sportsbook. Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or 1-800-MY-RESET. And we're live on Match Day as Doug reaches for a Buffalo wing.

0:34Andy Greenwald:He's got it! Oh, and he's gone for a can of Pepsi, too! What a finish! There's no doubt about it. It just tastes better. Match Days deserve Pepsi. I need supports to have to clear the room. Stand up and walk. Now! Hello, and welcome to The Watch. My name is Chris Ryan. I am an editor at TheRinger.com and joining me on the other line, the VJ Edgecombe of prestige British mysteries. It's Andy Greenwald. That's the nicest thing you've ever said about me. That is such a compliment right now. What's up, dude? Oh, I feel pretty good, man. I'm feeling like 90 % happy right now. Okay, what percentage of the 90 % is due to having a basketball team again?

1:24Well, 82, I think is probably like the feeling of having a 4-0 NBA team is pretty exciting. Yeah, feels pretty good. I'm fired up about that. I'm fired up about getting to see you in London next week, which I'm really excited about. I hate to tell you this, but I had a great night's sleep last night. So I did too. I did too. Good. Okay. Andy's been having some sleeping struggles. You want to know what the 10 % problem is? And I hate to use my platform here as a bully pulpit, but I have to guess. a major pharmaceutical corporation. Maybe. I don't even know if it's a pharmaceutical. I suppose it is.

2:00Andy Greenwald:Can I stop you? I feel like Tylenol's had a bit of a tough time already. Just let them be. My preferred nicotine lozenge has changed its coating and I think chemical compound. So I need Trump and Xi to figure this out and get me whatever thing is in these things and take away this tic-tac sweet flavor that they've put on it, bring back my mint, and just bring back my milligram hit that I need. Can I ask you something? Yes. You know, you are, I can't speak to this world. This is, you are on your own journey. Yes. And I respect it from a healthy, literally distance. But I do wonder if you're going to be ultimately happier when you come over here to the UK because one thing that I do enjoy, and this is me trying to relate to you, I know what you're going to say.

2:54What is that?

2:55Andy Greenwald:Well, no, it's going to be about Doritos. Oh, okay. Like, I don't know if we've talked about this. No, the fact that literally everyone here just exhales candy apple smoke from all sorts of USB devices into your face, no matter where you're standing at any time, whether you're inside or outside. I know, it's just going to be like watermelon bubble yum flavor vapes, right? It's so crazy. No, it's not that. It's that so here, if you get a bag of like Cool Ranch Doritos as one might. Yes. They don't taste like Cool Ranch Doritos do at home because due to, I don't know, laws, they can't put in the chemicals that they put into our Doritos and they kind of zhuzh it up a little bit.

3:34Andy Greenwald:But at first, it's very weird because it doesn't taste like it's supposed to. In fact, it just tastes about 60 % less taste. And it's like vaguely like there's milk or dairy in it. And then you start to realize like, oh, I am Neo in the Matrix. Like I've just never used my taste buds before. This is pretty nice. So I'm wondering if you come over here and you start popping nicotine candies or whatever they are, you might appreciate a different flavor profile. Do you know what I mean? Like it might be more natural. To me, the 60 % that you're talking about, that flavor that we Americans bring to the table, that's why we won World War II.

4:14Andy Greenwald:It's really true. It's really true. Do you know? I mean, I've heard it said three different ways by three different people about what they like about Americans. And sometimes I don't think they mean it, but they're all basically saying the same thing. I've heard it phrased as enthusiasm. Yeah. I've heard it phrased as confidence. And I've heard it phrased as self-esteem. And maybe that's the cooler ranch that we... But don't they know that Americans are all dying on the inside and crippled with like anxiety and emotional distress? Yeah, I've been proving that to them for the last four weeks. I feel like when I'm on the verge of going to England, I always have to do a few kind of meditative self-sessions and just be like, take it down 10%, man.

5:02Because I think it's like I'm always on microphone, but also my natural personality is pretty effusive. and like, you know. Do you remember the story?

5:10Andy Greenwald:Like I was in... You just can't say what's up, man, to anyone in England. The problem is I think New Yorkers do better because when we were New Yorkers, we were like many New Yorkers, which is just basically just about our business, like moving between places. Yeah. And then I've talked about this, how like within eight days of moving to LA, I became so soft that when I returned to New York, I went to buy a bottle of water at the bodega And I was like, how's your day doing friend? And the guy looked at me like I had just like asked to see pictures of his children nude. And I realized now that like the California part, that's the American part.

5:49Andy Greenwald:So, so like when we were here, when we were here after we went to that Norway thing a year and a half ago, and we were out in the countryside and I went, it was a small pub and like was standing by the kitchen to like ask for, I don't even know what I was like silverware or something. And there was a woman next to me and she was talking to the chef saying how she really, really wanted to get a pepperoni pizza, you know, but like, but I was there first. So, you know, what did I, what did I need or whatever? And I said, oh, I'm sorry. I'm just here to get a big bowl of pepperoni. Did you really?

6:23Andy Greenwald:Cause I thought I was like, yeah, I was like sort of, and she sort of looked at me and she went, you know, humor's a bit pushy, isn't it? I was like, I didn't know that. I thought we were all just like, we're all just having a good time. And, uh, no, no, it happened again. I bought an umbrella the other day because newsflash it's fucking raining. Yeah. And I, I, I finished up my interaction with the woman, you know, paid for it. And I was like, I'm, I'm, she said, please, you know, have a good day. And I said, thank you. I'm, I'm glad that this is the first time I've ever planned in advance for anything.

6:54Andy Greenwald:She just stared blankly at me. Do you think that if we went into rough trade records or foils books or someplace in london and acted like the real mom and pop shops but acted like a british person right and first of all i don't like your like slight disparaging of british institutions like foils and dashum like when i go to dashum i feel like you roll your eyes second of all i don't roll my eyes shum is a treasure there are other places but go on yeah all right um when you go in and you like do you think if we tried to act more English when we bought something and we were just like, eh, ta, and then walked out, would they be like, he's a bit of a fucking prick, isn't he?

7:39Andy Greenwald:I think they're saying that all the time, regardless of what I do. Even if we're like, hey, thank you so much, man. But, by the way, this happened on the tube yesterday or the day before. Packed tube train coming back from work, and there was a couple, clearly there were, I think, I was on one of the lines that goes to the airport and it might have been the Lizzie line or whatever. And so there was this couple and they had suitcases and came to the stop and they were stressed and they were like, excuse us, excuse us. So sorry, so sorry. And they're leaving the train car and the woman of the couple left her suitcase.

8:09Andy Greenwald:Oh no. And I said, sir, sir, this is how fast I was, dude. I said, your case. I didn't say your bag because that's not what it is. I said, your case. And he looked at me for a second and the look on his face was, why are you bloody talking to me right now? And then did you say to him, sir, see it, say it, sort it. Come on. I didn't say it. I lived it. He then saw it. He was like, oh, dear God, thank you. Thank you so much. And he carried the bag off. He wasn't actually the guy. I just he wasn't Stephen Fry. But regardless, he took the bag. And then I was just like, this is an incredible thing.

8:42Andy Greenwald:I saved their entire trip or foiled their terrorist plot. That's right. That's right. Either way, I won. And I don't know if I did that because I'm a pushy American. And history will just have to judge me. We're going to find out. If you enjoyed this cross-Atlantic banter, get ready, because we're going to both be in England next week. And also, this is thematically appropriate for today's episode where we're talking about the finale of Slow Horses Season 5, as well as the first two episodes of Down Cemetery Road, which is the new show on Apple TV that is adapted from a Mick Herron novel. The Heronverse.

9:23The Heronverse, and stars Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson. And I was quite charmed by it. I can't wait to talk about that. We also have the penultimate episode of this season, and perhaps the only season, I don't know, of the lowdown. But Andy, first I wanted to just circle back, take the wagon back a few miles, and talk a little bit more about Taylor Sheridan.

9:44Andy Greenwald:Yeah, some more details, some more reporting has emerged since our breathless coverage the other day. Yes, I have been greatly amused by the reporting about this to come out after Matt Bellany's initial reporting because I think that you can detect a fair amount of, hey, we need to get ahead of this part of this or this part of this, both coming from the Sheridan camp and from the Paramount camp. So depending on what you're reading, you can almost feel the thumb being pressed down on the nerve center of the piece of like, hey, make sure you know that he spent a lot of money or make sure you know that he didn't like that they cast Nicole Kidman in this other show, et cetera, et cetera.

10:22My favorite detail by far to come out of all of this is that Sharon's deal with University is reportedly worth$1 billion.

10:32Andy Greenwald:I mean, he watched Austin Powers recently, I think. So his agent is Dr. Evil. Yes. He was like,$1 billion. It is apparently contingent on him making 20 television shows. Seems doable. I wanted to know how many Taylor Sheridan shows do you think we could come up with right now oh my god I mean I already said one I said bowl of pepperoni five minutes ago that's one down got 19 to go no I mean because like it's it's harder than it looks because every time he announces or a rumor comes out about a show that he's doing I'm like I can't believe he's doing this. This is amazing. But also, I for some reason wouldn't have had the bravery or the courage or the creative foresight to do this.

11:23Did you know that there was a show that he had been working on at Paramount called The Correspondent, which was about a correspondent who was going to be covering the war in Afghanistan?

11:34Andy Greenwald:Okay. That sounds good. What else you got? I think that you and I would best... our time would best be served trying to figure out different iterations of his, uh, Dutton family by the year series or series. Um, so obviously he did 1883, which is, I think a lot of people still consider his best work. He did 1923, which had a kind of morbid, like sadistic kind of vibe to it to, in my mind, but we haven't gotten anything else. But if you told me right now that one, of his projects that was like, you know, had a, had a blinking green light, as they say, was just called 89. And it's Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty sitting on a porch.

12:19Andy Greenwald:Like I would believe that. You know what I mean? Like, like that, that is the method, right? It's just like, pick a, pick an area as we say in the industry, a story area, and then throw money at famous people to enact it. I don't know. Like you have to, like, we have to come up with like a Taylor Sheridan series generator as like an app kind of because you could basically say like take this character who has done this very specialized thing and is at like a kind of middle upper tier of management of wherever they are so there's always all done a character in lioness or billy bob thornton in landman and then dump like a ton of family stuff on them as well as some extraordinary very kind of, you know, plot mechanics.

13:08Okay, right.

13:08Andy Greenwald:So basically, like, the comptroller, right? And it's just like Dallas, Texas. And it's Shirley's Theron. It's going to be like Brad Landers' show or something. Who's the comptroller of New York City? Yeah, I would watch that show. I'm trying to help you help Taylor. Okay. So he takes middle management job. You're not the mayor, but you're also not on the city council, and you control the books, so you're kind of the land man of the urban land. Krasner, the story of a DA trying to disassemble the carceral system. Let me be clear. That is not a show that Taylor Sheridan would make. He would make a show about who's the guy that just, our DA in LA, Hockman.

13:54Andy Greenwald:Yeah, Hockman. Right. Like one DA hired, elected to undo what the liberal DA did in the two years of, right. Yeah. Um, yeah. ACAB, all cops aren't bastards. All cops are bodacious. This police show set in Hawaii in the 1980s. No, no, no. It's fine. It's, it's, yeah, no, yes, yes, yes. It's, look, I, I, it's a smart, if it's a billion dollars, but it's, you know, it's contingent, it is, you know, it's like the, the DLMB should have signed, right? Where it's like, you get$200 million. We're all feeling good about each other right now. I'm feeling so good. He's such a cheerleader. I'm just saying that it should have been maybe tied to some achievables.

14:44Andy Greenwald:And if he can deliver what he has delivered in the past, then the amount of money that he has made for Paramount is outrageous. It kind of makes sense. I also think, and we said a little bit about this the other day, that you don't throw these deals to people who are good at making one show. you throw these deals at people who are good at making many shows that are clearly one show. You know, like we all know if a show is Shonda Rhimes. We know when a show is Ryan Murphy. Like there are things that are instantly recognizable or a vibe that you can slip on like a glove, and that is Taylor Sheridan.

15:21Andy Greenwald:The details that I feel like we didn't hit on in addition to the potential price tag, one was the sense, and this is, as you said, clearly coming from the Ellison camp that it seemed like because he doesn't take notes from anyone and because there was a change of regime that whoever, whoever had been in possession of the rubber stamps had perhaps left the company. Chris McCarthy was, was one of those people. Yes. Right. The, uh, and that the other thing with the Nicole Kidman piece was that maybe, um, the landman, not the landman, sorry, the lioness, the late renewal was kind of like a, here, look, let's fix this for you kind of renewal, which I feel like you should take personally because Linus's don't need your charity.

16:03Andy Greenwald:The last and biggest thing that I don't know if we articulated clearly on Monday, though, was offering Taylor Sheridan a billion dollars and remaking the streaming landscape for a product that will not arrive for another three, four years is a remarkable show of commitment to the Peacock streaming service. I agree. This is overall strategy. buying NBA rights. You're right. They were pot committed, but they just doubled the size of the pot. It is just an outrageous outlay. But considering that we constantly made comments over the last year about there being inevitable consolidation, that some of these streamers aren't going to continue to exist, this is a pretty radical line in the sand that there will be, at least this one.

16:49I do wonder whether or not we'll see anything even close to what HBO did with True Detective, where they had to bake off to see if anybody has a take on what was Nick Pizzolatto's series. And if that will happen with any of the Taylor Sheridan universe with saying,

17:10Andy Greenwald:Hey, which is the one you would throw your hat in the ring for? Well, here's the thing is you basically have this series of Dutton family stories told over the course of generations, year by year or decade by decade. you've got the poet laureates of the 1980s in the building already. Let the Duffer brothers make 1989. Whoa. You know, what was going on with the Duttons in the John Hughes era? That's so good. That's really good. It's probably just a bunch of people sitting around talking about how good Reagan is. Yeah, it's just a bunch of people very satisfied. They're just like, this guy's awesome.

17:53Andy Greenwald:This is awesome. All the hippies are gone. Yeah. Yeah, this is, we did it. That would be, but it would be kind of funny if they just started letting people be like, okay, what do you think of, what do you have for like a Yellowstone spinoff? I don't know if they're allowed to because obviously Sheridan and 101 probably had a pretty unique deal. I don't imagine that they can continue. I mean, do you think that that stuff is Paramount's IP? I think that would be really complicated. I don't necessarily think that's the case now. Okay. Like True Detective was Warner Brothers production for HBO. It's in-house, right?

18:29Andy Greenwald:They bought it and they made it. I believe, unless I'm forgetting some detail, was anonymous, maybe anonymous content is involved. But that's the case. But I don't, yeah, I don't have an answer. There clearly are answers out there that we could find. But I think that his role in creating... Well, David Ellison has the chance to do the funniest possible thing. by like, like, I don't know, having Rachel Sennett like be the next lioness. I don't know. Or just rebranding the universe as like Hillstone and it's just about like a nationwide chain of incredibly consistent good restaurants. That's right.

19:05Andy Greenwald:With Kevin Costner back. All right. So we have a couple of shows here to talk about. We can talk about the new one, the finale that we got or the lowdown. I'm going to leave it up to you Why don't we do Horses Cemetery Lowdown Did you find Because you had sort of raised a few flags You threw a few flags On the last episode of The penultimate episode of Slow Horses Did you find this to be a satisfying conclusion I thought it was an enjoyable conclusion To an enjoyable season of television That did not necessarily Do anything For my investment In the series It has kept me at arm's length for the entire season.

19:48Andy Greenwald:And that didn't really change up until the very last frame of the season, which I thought was both clever and hinted at both a past and a potential future for the show. So spoilers for the finale of Slow Horses, but you're referring to the shot of Jackson Lamb's burned feet, correct? It's just, I mean, first of all, usually like, you know, you have to, you have to pay more to get celebrity feet like that. And, uh, what, what a relief, what a release. Um, yeah, that, so it can, we, we talked about this the other day, but, uh, or when it came up, like the moment, the hinge point for the season for me, and honestly, my relationship to the show, not as someone who's going to bail, but as someone who is just kind of enjoying it as a comedy versus something a little bit deeper than that, was the long, gripping monologue that Gary Oldman delivers about an agent captured by the Stassi and the death of his love and his torture at the hands of the opposing forces.

20:52Andy Greenwald:And Standish asks, oh, is that you? And he was like, don't be daft. I made it up. And it was a brilliant performance. It's a brilliant scene, a brilliant speech. And the end of the season confirmed for the audience, not for any of the other people in Slough House, that most likely it was true. That was his life. That is his background. The show needed that, honestly. And it did also need just another glimpse of something that I think did exist a little bit in the first two seasons, which is why he does any of this, why this is important to him, what he feels he is owed, what he sacrificed to get this far.

21:25Andy Greenwald:And, you know, through a certain lens, the actual human emotion that he feels for the castoffs. that he does think it's important to keep them for whatever reason, whether it's to keep them safe, whether it's to keep them. Yeah, exactly. Sometimes from themselves. So sometimes you got to do that. Like it's just, that just felt like good brand management, right? Like it can't all be one-liners and Jaffa cakes. So I appreciated that. And, you know, the way that it, the way that the finale unfolded with the terror plotline going one way, the, you know, the, the actual last attack going another, and then the sting of the bee.

22:07Andy Greenwald:It's all so well done that it continues to feel churlish to complain. But it was, for me, this season started as a seven and ended as a seven, which is higher than a lot of shows get. Yeah, and I think coming off of the previous season, which was probably for Slow Horses' standards, a five, you know, to me. I think it's fair. I thought that this was really gripping. I've said before, and I apologize to our listeners who maybe find this to be... not consistent with their experience of the show that I watched this pretty much as a binge on the screeners and my experience with it was much more like a three-hour thriller than it was or four or five-hour thriller like then it was a episodic week-to-week six-week television experience and I think that greatly aided the feeling of propulsiveness and also the consistency of the tone.

23:01So I found it to be just a remarkably tight and fun experience. But I think a lot of it did have to do with the way I watched it. I don't want Apple to start putting these up over the weekend and just like let people, it's cool that people get to watch Slow Horses over the course of a month and a half. And I think next season I will effort to do that that way. But I found it very addicting um i do think your point is really well taken though which is that the very things that sometimes are rewarding about a show can become a little bit of a liability and i think part of why i like slow horses over the last couple of seasons or at least the first few seasons was that um it didn't get weighed down in its own um trauma motivations for characters It was about people making mistakes.

23:51It was about people who perhaps were losers, you know, or self-perceived themselves to be losers. And it was about an institution that, for comic relief, but also for purpose reasons that we don't quite understand, need to keep this way station of spies around, you know? And when you get to the fifth season of that, I think you just kind of wonder, like, why is Jackson being such a fucking prick all the time? You know, like, what's the deal? And when you start to see even little glimmers of, oh, well, obviously, Catherine's boss and River's grandfather and Jackson all had some Germany stuff going on.

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24:38And that's probably why Jackson's so mean to Catherine and was the meanest you could be to her boss. and why he has this strange relationship to River because of what River's grandfather may or may not have done to him in your imagination. I think it starts to suggest a deeper experience of this show that I would like for them to lean into.

25:01Andy Greenwald:Yes, I would add one other thing, which is to your point about the things that are strengths can start to feel like overly familiar over time. One of the strengths of the show has always been, and I imagine will continue to be, the unsentimentality about the turnover. That said, I think this is, I think Slot House is a bit stripped to the bone right now. It is lacking internal dynamics that have helped past seasons. So for example, Shirley was a very compelling character to me last season when she was basically paired in a two-hander with Marcus. Marcus has taken off the board last year, which is what happens with this show.

25:42Andy Greenwald:and she didn't have any, she didn't have a dance partner this year and she didn't really make much of an impression because of it. Roddy is an absurdity and a completely comic character who was, I think, probably overly showcased this year. And who is he playing off of other than everyone in terms of being exactly the same? Sure. Similarly, what's her name leaving for this season but potentially coming back? Louisa, yeah. Yeah, like the, I don't necessarily buy that she and River are like one true pairing, but at least there was some frisson of something, of wanting, of neediness, of connection.

26:18Andy Greenwald:And look, the benefit of the evolving and fluid cast means that each season of Slow Horses theoretically has the right shape to fit into the plot that McCarran and now Will Smith and whoever's taking over from him want to use. But I think I'd like a little bit more. Second point I want to ask you, because I actually got some pushback on this from my English colleagues, which was that I did find, what's his name, Nick? Is this like your English colleagues, like the guy who sold you a brawly or the English colleagues? No, my work colleagues. In your community of writers, yeah. Okay. No, what's his name?

26:59Andy Greenwald:The comedian from Ted Lasso who plays the mayor. Nick Muhammad. Nick Muhammad. um i was like i just that was a choice to cast a a small pleasant comedian as the mayor of london and it immediately took me out of any plausibility of those scenes um they were like have you been you haven't been in london long enough to understand that this is how our politicians work here on a on the on a civic level yeah that said i think i need to have more of like i need to go a little more native or have it explained to me again because i just feel like if a city was roiled by a massive, um, uh, mass casualty gun violence attack.

27:36Andy Greenwald:And then there was like a healing moment that the mayor came to, there might be a television camera there or some press or more than two security guards who are very bad at their job. Right. You know what I mean? Like, it's just, the thing about the season is just like you, you, you've laid down a marker with Abbotsfield and then you just try to keep pushing that button, even though the rest of the season fights the credulity of that. For what it's worth, the season five usage of the terror plot being rooted in English colonialism and the intelligence services kind of cutthroat abandonment of people in Libya.

28:16And then I enjoyed the usage of the Whelan character. I thought like kind of playing on his self-belief was a good piece of writing. And I really enjoyed... Sorry, I forgot who plays Whelan again. James Salas.

28:36Andy Greenwald:James Salas, yeah. I thought he was quite good this season. This next season of Slow Horses, as Andy informed me after his incredible piece of Googling, is based on not just one, but two McHeron novels. So it's Joe Country and Slough House. And it features our boy, Kyle Soler, Cyril from Andor. That's so sick. Some role to be determined. It looked good. It looks great. I still have season tickets, man. I'm so happy that this show is seemingly going to last for 10 seasons and 60 episodes of television. And I will be curious to see going forward whether they just reset the clock and say, here's another zany adventure of these people who don't really want to be in Slough House, but can't leave.

29:26Or if they continue to pull at the threads that were shown in the last frame of season five, Rivers' seemingly commitment to leaving, et cetera, et cetera.

29:39Andy Greenwald:One thing that I liked about the trailer, other than the fact that, goddammit, there's a trailer for the next season. I just, we used to make things in this country, and now they do it all over here, was the fact that from what I could gather from the trailer, having not read the books, the plot of season six is about action and plot related to Slough House, not Slough House getting incredibly lucky in solving all the problems that that MI5 can't do for itself. You know what I mean? It centers in the language and the parlance of the day, Slough House, in a way that I think probably will be helpful for the story because you can't at least maybe not until season seven, you can't do another story where it's just like, the fuck-ups figured it out before you did again dummies or they they've they've inserted themselves into an international incident rather than one of their own has been taken or you know killed or whatever do you know the other thing that i love about these trailers is they show the trailer and i'm like oh everyone has a different haircut i know as if it takes longer than two weeks to change your hair but there's something about it that makes surely's new hair i was just like okay surely i have come to equate hair changes with massive delays in production that like they had to just work with what the actor had done in the three years that they last filmed, as opposed to them just walking into wardrobe on day one and then being like, yeah, about shorter.

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33:24Andy Greenwald:Why wait? Ask your doctor, visit BotoxChronicMigraine.com, or call 1-800-44-BOTOX to learn more. Since we're on the topic of Mick Heron, let's talk about Down Cemetery Road. The first two episodes of this show went out today, I think. Today. So we won't get too heavily into spoilers. I think we can just, I think you and I agree. I recommend this show. Now, I was fascinated to see the little sprinklings of Mick Heron specifically, and this is adapted by Marlena Banks, who's worked on Slow Horses as a writer on the Slow Horses staff. Who is also, by the way, a quite well-known comedian and the voice of Mummy Pig on Peppa Pig.

34:10Andy Greenwald:Just for the Daddington South Park. Is she kicking up off that, you think? I want to say yes. But, you know, you never know with voice acting gigs. You never know what contract you sign. Is Peppa Pig one of those things that has like 53 seasons? Peppa Pig is extremely enduring. Peppa just had a new sibling. Pep is still cooking. Oh man, way to go, Pep. So Marwena Banks wrote and I believe show ran the show and Natalie Bailey directed the first two episodes. It's based on the Zoe Boehm series from The Slow Horse's author, McCarran. This is a private detective working in Oxford. It's played by Emma Thompson with a spiky silver haircut.

34:51This pilot episode or the first episode and to some extent the second episode really grabbed me because almost six minutes in, you are deep within a conspiracy involving the Ministry of Defense, involving private detectives, involving the Oxford sort of community of hospitals and police departments. A strange explosion happens at night, interrupting a dinner party being hosted by a woman named Sarah Trafford, who's played by Ruth Wilson. She's like an art restorer at a local museum. And she's married to a finance guy. They're hosting a dinner for his work that is attended by a couple of like kind of hippies that they know from around Oxford.

35:31And it's not going very well. And sort of at the peak of the dinner falling apart with arguments about politics and will cancel culture, there's an explosion that shatters their window and blows the lasagna everywhere. And it's a big moment and they run down to the explosion site.

35:49Andy Greenwald:To be fair, the lasagna was already pretty blown out. It seemed like it was singed. Yeah. But with those British produce, you know, and maybe it's persevering through that. And they run down to this explosion site and there unspools a mystery where Sarah basically gets it in her head that a girl who's been injured in the explosion is a girl that she had a previous attachment to after seeing her on the road the other day. Yeah, a child. A little girl named Dinah. It kind of, the more you talk about this show or the more you try to explain the plot, probably the less sense it makes and the more far-flung it feels.

36:28I just thought that this was expertly done. And also entertainingly written with just enough of the, I guess, Mick Herron, also by way of Iannucci, kind of spiky dialogue that elevated it beyond just a pulpy page-turner. What did you think of the first couple episodes?

36:50Andy Greenwald:I loved the show. I was totally charmed by it. And I was, I loved it for two reasons. One is just the sheer professionalism of it. Like there are moments in the first 15 minutes of the show is a masterclass on how to make producible screenplays in 2025. It starts with our main character at her job, telling us about her, telling us about what she notices and what she doesn't, setting the scene. And then she bikes home and we suddenly we realized we're filming this in Oxford, which is incredibly beautiful. and at least to my knowledge, I mean, it's probably different over here, but like... And also some of the sound stages where they shot Criminal Record.

37:27I mean, there's like some of the interiors.

37:29Andy Greenwald:But when you see Oxford on screen as an American, it's either like a Harry Potter movie or it's a period piece. It's rarely like, oh, this is actually a college town that has these incredible structures in it. And she's biking home and she's basically the living embodiment of the toast catalog, deep cut for English people who like clothes. And, you know, there's a song, pop song playing and she has this interaction with a child that is clearly significant. And then she has a fraught conversation with her husband and it is incredibly formulaic and it is incredibly successful. Yeah. It introducing us to the world, this main character, and then literally blowing it all up.

38:06Andy Greenwald:So it is the best case scenario of like, let's get exceptional high level actors. Let's get a beautiful location and let's really, really give people a chance to get involved before we start spinning the wheels of a larger mystery. So I really liked all that. But beyond that, what I loved is, and this is why I kind of wanted to talk about this second to Slow Horses, is that it almost feels like, now I've heard, I have not read these books and I've read some light commentary about them that even suggests that so far this show is more successful than the books, that a few changes have been made.

38:38Andy Greenwald:I can't speak to that. But it does feel to me almost like a direct response to not necessarily my individual criticism of slow horses, but I don't think so. No, no. I mean the makers of the show, because what this show has is the wit and the verve and the professionalism of slow horses. And McCarran is just like a master level plotter, but it does have a really strong heartbeat of emotion and humanity centered in the performances of Ruth Wilson as Sarah and then Emma Thompson as Zoe, who, because of who she is and how we meet her, is Jackson Lamb-ish. Ish. But has a very, very... Yeah. But she has a very specific, I don't want to say reason because I only spent two hours with her, but I understand why she is the way she is in a more active, emotional way that I'm really, really um really really enjoying and i i just think beyond that like the plot and the levels of plot are pretty ingenious it's a really exciting way to tell a smallish town mystery story but one that has tendrils that go quite literally all the way to the top there's sort of two shows happening within this series there is the uh oxford mystery with with uh with sarah and zoe then there is this sort of the thick of it-esque ministry of defense show uh with darren boyd who is he six foot nine i don't know but so i for what it's worth when you google in the uk it told me that he is 1.93 meters and i'm like you could have just printed this in fucking magyar i have no idea what that means but then i googled what is 1.93 meters and he's six foot three, which suggests that Adil Akbar, who's a great actor who plays Hamza, he might in fact be quite small, but either way, it is a brilliant pairing between the two of them that has a lot of power dynamics just in the visual imagery.

40:36Yes, there's just like bar after bar of great dialogue between the two of those guys. The other thing I was going to mention to you, and I saw the Vulture recapper pointed this out in some way, but I fully agree and it occurred to me the sort of inciting event of the explosion happens i don't know six minutes into the show seven minutes into the show i was so nervous that it was going to be like two weeks earlier

41:03Andy Greenwald:oh it was going to do that yes no it didn't do it at various points over the course of the episode we were going to find out that sarah had um we were going to get like a full flashback of sarah's childhood because there is a really lovely exchange where somebody is like why do you care about this girl so much is is it that she reminds me of reminds you of your child and you're like okay did you want to have yeah or did you lose a child or can you not have children like what and she's just like no it kind of reminds me of who i was and i was like great line says a lot about a character without actually saying anything and we keep it moving and this show just has a really nice rhythm to it that and it's not tripping up by being like well we better show a black and white flashback of her childhood and her doing a similar activity as this girl so that we know why she's obsessed she's obsessed now in the book apparently she's she gets obsessed with this because she's bored she doesn't really have a lot going on in her life she doesn't have this keen eye for detail that i think will come in very helpfully uh throughout this mystery but i just really thought it was good for the things it wasn't doing.

42:15I appreciated the things it didn't do. That's a great point.

42:17Andy Greenwald:Yeah. I will also say, I think you were right to frame this conversation as a non-spoiler. But I do want to shout out the great British actor Adam Godley who plays Zoe's husband, who is kind of an extremely mild-mannered, low-stakes, jazz-loving private eye. You may remember him as getting seltzer in his eye in succession on election night. Yes, or you may remember, you may have seen him in the Lehman trilogy, who Tony nominated. You may have seen him in Breaking Bad. I think more people probably saw him in succession than the Lehman trilogy. But then I said Breaking Bad. Did you see the Lehman trilogy?

42:57Andy Greenwald:No, I wanted to though. Oh, okay. Does that count? Do I get theater? Do I get theater cred for that? I'm just saying that like, he's a celebrated stage actor. I'm like, damn, Andy saw the Lehman trilogy. Yeah. I mean, it's not beyond. Brother, I'm a podcaster. say things with confidence. That's literally the only job requirement. Be a man in his forties who's confident about his opinions. The check's rolling. It's fucking great. He, yeah, he was Breaking Bad. He's Walter White's like business partner initially. And he was also really good in The Great. Anyway, he's always good. And when he shows up, it's just a reminder, kind of like just A, the deep, deep bench of great actors here in the UK.

43:38Andy Greenwald:But also, it's just choosing to fill every corner of the canvas, shout out Sarah Trafford, art conservationist, with color and with specific decision making. Also, I'm just going to say, if there was ever, I don't know if Apple's listening or if McCarran's listening, the adventures of a mild-mannered, jazz-loving, openly Jewish private investigator in Oxford, that's a spinoff that I'd watch. I don't again I might have to fit it in between it's true fucking true like they there's a menorah on his shelf I'm just saying you fucking cracked me up man I might not I might not have time with all my viewings of the Lehman Trilogy and the West End you know but if you were to green light that show I would happily watch it okay that's I mean that's a glowing review of Down Cemetery Road we'll revisit that it's really good it's just yeah It's really good.

44:37It's actually a show. I'm having a marital argument because my wife saves a lot of shows to watch with her mother. And her mother-in-law, hi, Eileen. She sometimes listens. I love you. She burns through British mysteries at an absolutely amazing pace. And so whenever I have a British mystery that I'm like, oh, this is really good. We'd enjoy this to my wife. She's like, great. I'll watch it with mom.

45:06Andy Greenwald:Don't you think, so the argument is ongoing or? I mean, I've lost. I will not be, I have to watch Down Cemetery Road on my own time. Like it is kind of, you know, again, like one of the nice things, I know people have different opinions about it, but like one of the nice things about, from my perspective as an outsider about the UK, is there's just like some institutionalized state-run things that are good, like the NHS or whatever. Like I feel like it seems like Mick Herron television shows are providing a similar service for the great British actors of our time as they age out of Star Trek villain roles or whatever the fuck they get offered in movies.

45:43Andy Greenwald:Because Emma Thompson, you and I are old enough to remember when Emma Thompson flashed across our cinema screens like a comet in the late 80s, early 90s. And people were like, this is the greatest actor alive. That is how she was considered. Yeah. I was re-watching the Kenneth Branagh Henry V the other day. Oh man, I was like, how'd that age? Fantastic. I mean, you know, every fifth. Pretty good. Pretty good. I remember seeing that at the Ritz. And she, so now she has a part where she can just be like, fuck it, let's go. I'm going to horse bath myself in this private investigator's office. Don't wash your face with this towel.

46:17That was really good. Great shit. We recommend this. Okay. Do you want to hit lowdown penultimate episode? The reason why I had said to Andy before we got on was like, well, we could combine this with the finale. is that as penultimate episodes go, this was not exactly like the Wire third season one. You know? Okay, that's fair. Which I am very interested in Sterling Harjo's execution of the mystery side of this, of the action side of this, because those are elements that even though Reservation Dogs have played in different genres, that he had even said to us, or to me, like I when I interviewed him and Ethan a couple weeks ago he was like that was hard this was much more difficult than you know like I can write people hanging out all day the you know learning the mystery learning the the rhythms of a mystery learning like how when to turn when to show when to you know give audience privilege versus what you know what only the characters know and so you go into this penultimate episode, which is called Tulsa Turnaround, which also could have been a pretty cool name for the show.

47:32It's written by Walter Mosley, who wrote Devil in a Blue Dress and the Easy Rollins Mysteries and is one of the great crime writers of our lifetime, me and Andy's. And so I had pretty high expectations because penultimate episodes can be, they can be the knockout punch and the finales can sometimes be the coda. And I felt like this was almost like the finale 1A. It was like that next week will continue to the extent that there is a cliffhanger in this Lowdown episode that is obviously going to be picked up immediately from, I would hope, immediately in the finale. This one was a little shaggy for me.

48:08It felt like it was pushing a lot of players into an area of physical space so that a lot of the plot lines of the season could get resolved. Now, I still liked it. There are still several scenes in this that I thought were delightful or really compelling, including a fascinating or a fantastically executed opening few minutes of the two speeches being given.

48:31Andy Greenwald:Yeah. But what did you make of the penultimate episode? Here's what I'll say. Inside of me, there are two wolves. And by wolves, I mean... Openly Jewish and jazz loving. Yes. Or two different flavors of pedantic TV critic recovering. one of them watches something like down cemetery road and admires the precision the professionalism the uh efficacy of doing things by the book we're gonna you know like i was describing the opening moments of that show the other part of me loves a beautiful mess and if it's that's the jazz loving part, I guess. And if, if I'm, if I like the players and I've enjoying my time at the club, like you could play anything and I'm going to enjoy it for what it is.

49:20Andy Greenwald:I say that not because there was anything bad about this episode. In fact, there were moments of real beauty, I thought, and real profundity about the nature of America and, uh, land and who owns what and relationship between races, relationship between white people and guilt and, uh, culpability and ego. And frankly, one of the most affecting father-daughter scenes of recent memory. Yeah, it was really good. It's a beautiful scene and it's really played incredibly by Ethan Hawke and Ryan Kira Armstrong who plays Francis, where he says he's absent because he wants to be the kind of person worthy of his daughter's admiration.

50:00Andy Greenwald:And she just shakes her head and says, I've always admired you and walks away. But there's a great little exchange that they have where he's supposed to be at this PTA meeting that he shows up late for and his ex is there with her new fiance, I think, even though she had said that they had broken up and they're, they're, they're doing it. And it almost feels like a punctuation mark at the end of a sentence for him where he walks in and he realizes that he is actually going to be replaced to some extent and all for the better. And as he's walking out and Francis confronts him, he says like, I'm not going to be the guy who takes you to like soccer practice or whatever or shows up for every single thing i'm gonna basically be the kind of person that i'm parenting by showing you what good values are and i think throughout this episode you know it's interesting lee espouses very good values and he talks about like i can't see an injustice take place without yeah speaking up he says this to two black men who live in america he gets graham green's character killed you know and and he storms into a church waving a handgun Yeah, yeah.

51:33Andy Greenwald:point to when something hasn't necessarily... Sometimes things can get better when they don't hit the initial target, but you can tell that something wasn't the initial target by certain benchmarks, one of which is a radically different runtime than the other episodes. And this one was about 10 minutes shorter than other episodes have been this season. One of them is an enormous amount of work clearly done in post where scenes are laid on top of each other, or there's ADR. things are combined in ways that were unlikely to have been combined at the script stage. Now, there are filmmakers who that's how they make their movies.

52:08Andy Greenwald:They find it later. And Sterling is a filmmaker. So I think a good example of that for our listeners, if they're wondering what you're talking about, would be when Tracy Letts' Frank character goes to meet with Graham Green at Whispering Pines. And Tracy's awesome in this. I really like this idea of a guy who's just like, at once evil, but also in too deep. And everybody's got a boss in this show. He goes up to Graham Greene's door, knocks on it, says, can I come in? I think in the intervening moments and scenes, Ethan Hawke goes to like three different locations with Killer Mike and does like three different things.

52:48And then we pick up the action as if Tracy lets his, Frank's just sat down with Graham Greene's character. And it's like a time, a time thing and then Ethan Hawke and Keith David arrived almost in the nick of time to that

53:04Andy Greenwald:conversation that would also Keith David, Keith David, Google's information about the church that then overlays the website over what he's looking at. And then he goes to a place and there's this very dreamy, like someone's being tarred and feathered. And so it's complicated and there's a lot of stuff. And, and it's always interesting to me. Maybe we'll get to talk to Sterling about it. Like, is this an example of an overstuffed script that ran too long? And so Do they combine things? Is it something they just found in the edit? Did they not get something that they had to write around? My point is when you're all in on, on a show that has something profound to say and has an artistic way of saying it, um, I, I, I let go of the wheel, man.

53:43Andy Greenwald:Like I, I, I just think this is a really, really compelling show. I think it's a really entertaining show. And I think that what he's doing is very affecting in ways that continue to surprise me. I didn't expect the episode that had the confrontation between Native activists and Kyle McLaughlin's kind of well-meaning, but weirdly, not weirdly, but extremely inappropriate gubernatorial candidate. I didn't expect that episode that had that kind of polemic to be the one that had the father-daughter scene that knocked me on my ass. But that's what this show is. so it made me excited for the finale and it also made me incredibly pretty sad if the finale is the finale finale we don't know I just really hope it's not yeah I would love for this show to get to the point where I get tired of it's not tired I get suspicious of it's the repetitiveness of the moves like we are with slow horses maybe or like you like you know as you've pointed out I would love to be four seasons into the lowdown and be like that Lee keep stepping in it You know, but this has been such a gift.

54:52And like even the moments that probably go by in a blink of eye and I or are just choices that they make details. The bar that Tracy lets meets Gene Triplehorn in is so authentically Tulsa. The the like the way I've only been to Tulsa once, but I know that vibe of bar where it's broad daylight outside and you would not know it inside the bar. because they have sealed all light from this place so that drinkers can feel like it's nighttime anytime. And it's just like those little things that it does are really, really effective to me. We can wrap it up there, man. I'm excited for the finale next week.

55:36Andy Greenwald:How are you feeling about your flight? You have the stuff preloaded on your iPad? What's your strategy? I have a horse tranquilizer preloaded. I will be asleep, brother. Good for you. I'm excited. I can't wait to see you. We're going to have some shows next week. We might move the days around a little bit because we've got the lowdown finale that we want to cover, but we've also got a brand new show from Vince Gilligan coming on Apple next week. Apple, just a show a week. Don't mind us. It's unbelievable. Who knows where they find the money, but they somehow continue to... As I look at my iPhone, see what time it is.

56:11Andy Greenwald:Just like private investigator Zoe Baum, who does a lot of Googling on her MacBook. Oh, did you notice that Art Restorer Sarah Trafford, big AirPod fan. big airpod fan uh but we have pluribus coming uh next friday and we have a great interview with vince gilligan that we're excited to share with folks about the first couple of episodes of pluribus so we got to figure out our days but we'll be with you next week in some capacity andy great to see you can't wait to see you in person

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