In its sophomore season, Ted Lasso - co-created by Bill Lawrence ( Scrubs) - deepens all of its characters, including its titular lead, perpetually chipper American college football coach Ted Lasso ( Jason Sudeikis), who left behind a failed marriage to coach a struggling British football (read: soccer) team in Blighty. If you liked Slow Horses, you might also enjoy: Espionage drama Tehran, also streaming on Apple TV+.īelieve: this Emmy Award-winning feel-good sports comedy is about far more than just sports. The highly addictive Slow Horses already shot its second season and has been commissioned for a third and a fourth (shooting this summer), so rest assured that there's life ahead for Jackson Lamb and Co. When the slow horses are drawn into a kidnapping plot, they race to save the victim, unaware of the larger chess game being played by Taverner and others.
Overseen with gruff irritation by often flatulent and always offensive spook Jackson Lamb ( Gary Oldman), Slough House is where failed spies go to die and its operatives dream of one day making it back to Regents Park, where their careers all went wrong.Īmong those stuck in Slough House is River Cartwright (Jack Lowden) - a one-time golden boy and grandson of Regents Park big cheese David Cartwright ( Jonathan Pryce) - whose own career went down in flames, much to the irritation of (or perhaps because of) current MI5 bigwig Diana Taverner ( Kristin Scott Thomas), an icy authoritarian whose belief in the rule of law is often murky at best. Based on the Slough House books by British novelist Mick Herron, high-octane espionage drama Slow Horses focuses on the denizens of Slough House, a purgatory for "slow horses," or English intelligence operatives who have flamed out spectacularly. If you liked Severance, you might also enjoy: Black Mirror, streaming on Netflix. What follows is a profound reflection on technology, productivity, and memory that EW's Kristen Baldwin says, "broadens beyond aloof sci-fi into a captivating blend of religious horror and suspense thriller." The intriguing concept centers on Mark (Scott), a grieving history teacher mourning his dead wife who gets to turn off his feelings every time he enters the basement floor of Lumon HQ, a stark white environment that is both cold and alienating. Lumon, the nefarious technology company at the heart of Severance, captures the worst nightmares of our current capitalist hellscape and ponders a scenario in which we could split ourselves effectively in two to better pursue that ever-elusive notion of work-life balance.
Productive workers don't need to be bogged down by problems at home, and wouldn't it be great to leave your work troubles at the office door? However, this is a trippy thriller, so things tend to go horribly wrong. With 14 Emmy nominations in tow, sci-fi/dark comedy-thriller Severance, from creator Dan Erickson and directors Ben Stiller and Aoife McArdle, focuses on a group of tech workers - including Adam Scott, John Turturro, Patricia Arquette, and Christopher Walken - who undergo a procedure known as "severance," splitting their memories between home and work.