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"Slow Horses" is a television series based on a series of novels by Mick Herron. The show follows a group of former agents, analysts, and operatives who have been relegated to a dilapidated building called Slough House. Despite their lowly status, they find themselves at the center of national security scandals and crises. The show combines dark humor, raw spycraft, and a sarcastic tone, and features a standout performance by Gary Oldman as the ornery and unconventional leader of the group. "Slow Horses" offers a mix of entertainment and action, with sleek production values and engaging set-pieces. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the fourth season of the television series True Detective, titled Night Country, and explores how it attempts to differentiate itself from previous seasons. The season follows female detectives in a fictional mining town in Alaska, focusing on unresolved cosmic conspiracies and the line between sanity and understanding the universe. The show delves into the eerie atmosphere of the Arctic landscape and raises questions about belief, metaphysics, and identity that remain unanswered. The article highlights the unique aspects of Night Country while acknowledging its similarities to the first season of True Detective. [Extracted from the article]

BOOKS & the ARTS MARTIN SCORSESE'S KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON IS SET on the open prairies of Oklahoma. After Ernest and Mollie marry and start a family, only Mollie's blood relations stand between Ernest's, and thus Hale's, acquiring the headrights. If the right people die in the right order, then her mother's and three sisters' headrights will flow as an inheritance to Mollie, and through Mollie to Ernest and into Hale's devious control. [Extracted from the article]

The opening scene of Christopher Nolan's latest film introduces us to this Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy). But now that Oppenheimer has fallen out of fa-vor - both with Strauss and many of the country's cold warriors - Strauss finds himself under the gun, interrogated by a panel of senators. Strauss may have had Oppenheimer in his sights in 1954, but now the committee members have Strauss in theirs. As Bohr observes in the film, invoking the myth, Oppenheimer has helped create not just a new weapon but a frightening new world - one that now has the power to destroy itself. [Extracted from the article]

"The Sympathizer" is a television series adapted from Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The story follows an unnamed protagonist who is a double agent during the Vietnam War, working as a captain in the US-backed secret police of South Vietnam while also being a mole for the Northern communists. The series explores themes of displacement, identity, and the loss of home, as the protagonist navigates between different worlds and struggles to find a sense of belonging. The show's narrative structure is non-linear, jumping between different time periods and locations, and it combines elements of satire, spy thriller, political intrigue, and moral introspection. While the series loses some momentum in later episodes, it ultimately succeeds in portraying the complexities of migration and the absence of a true home. [Extracted from the article]

As Cootie paints Scat's name in giant letters on the wall of a building, The Hero flies up behind the giant and knocks him out. Jones's soapbox speech, her "psychic theater", astonishes and galvanizes Cootie. BOOKS & the ARTS All art is propaganda", says walton goggins in I'M a Virgo, Boots Riley's new Amazon Prime Video series. [Extracted from the article]

Beau is introduced to Jeeves (Denis Menochet), a traumatized war veteran who then slips into jungle gear and chases Beau throughout the rest of the film. The film's overdetermined outcome is lightened by its gross-out body humor: There are genitals, expelled fluids, pharmaceutical side effects, and Beau's cartoonish resilience. BOOKS & the ARTS THE CRITICS AGREE: BEAU IS AFRAID IS A FREUDIAN farce, a nightmarish horror-comedy, a tragicomic Oedipal odyssey. [Extracted from the article]