In recent years, there are not many ** dramas worth watching, but the drama I want to recommend today is an exception. It performed well in the first two seasons broadcast last year, and its word-of-mouth continued to climb, reaching Douban 9A high score of 0. Now, the third season is back, let's take a look at the high-profile Slow Horses of the third season of "Drifters".
The series is based on the series of the same name**, and the story mainly revolves around a relatively idle unit of MI5, the Slough Department. A group of people abandoned by the headquarters gathered here, and instead of giving up, they tried to find an opportunity to swim against the current. The audience can find out after the first season that this is not only a spy war drama, but also a "workplace drama" with British humor.
This season's producer, Apple TV, has shown a strong production lineup as always. Gary Oldman, a powerhouse actor who needs no introduction, has created haunting characters in many well-known productions such as "Vampire", "This Killer Is Not Cold" and "Harry Potter". He has won many awards and is a well-deserved actor-level figure. In addition, this season also invited many well-known actors such as Jack Loudon, Kristen Scott Thomas, and Olivia Cook, the heroine of "Ready Player One", to join, which undoubtedly brought more expectations to the audience.
The plot of the story is as follows: in MI5, there is a relatively idle department - the Slough Department. It's a place where people who have been marginalized by the headquarters gathered, and everyone is trying to find their own opportunities. They were despised for making major mistakes, and most of the tasks they were given were unskilled and unappreciated. However, the head of this department, Jackson Lamb, is a notorious figure. He is scruffy, pot-bellied, and messy all day, waking up drinking and not even minding his torn socks. He also has a very strange temper, scolding when he disagrees, treating his subordinates cold-blooded and mean, and always accusing them of being useless.
In this department, none other than Raven Cartwight, the most dissatisfied subordinate of Lamb. As a new employee, Raven had been puzzled as to why he had come to this point. In fact, he is the grandson of ***, but this status does not bring him any privileges. Instead, he was marginalized for getting the suspect wrong during a capture mission. Although he acted quickly to track down the real culprit, he ultimately failed because it took too long. This incident led to the loss of hundreds of people's ** and property, and Raven was suppressed by the headquarters because of this, and even faced the danger of dismissal. However, this capture mission was actually just a Xi, and there was no actual ** and no loss. Moreover, Raven clearly remembers that the instructions he received when receiving the information were correct, which only means that the person who posted the suspect's information said the wrong thing. Raven has always been resentful about this, and desperately needs a real big action to prove himself.
The story of the first season takes place mainly in a relatively deserted department, the Slough Ministry, who is given a puzzling task: to investigate the outdated right-wing journalist Robert James Hoburn. Although Hopburn had done some demagogic acts, he was gradually eliminated by the times over time. However, why MI5 is investigating him makes Raven think something is wrong.
At the same time, an innocent boy is kidnapped by a right-wing group and plans to livestream his beheading. The timing of these events is very coincidental and arouses Raven's curiosity. In the course of investigating Hoben, the employees of the Slough Ministry showed their abilities. They are not incompetent, on the contrary, they were once MI5 elites.
For example, the beauty of Hido was the first to be sent to spy on journalists. She looked like she was just an ordinary café guest, but after "unintentionally" spilling the reporter's coffee, she copied the contents of the reporter's notebook to her computer while the other party was wiping it, and the whole process went smoothly and without any flaws.
In addition, Raven needs to hack into the reporter's mailbox, so he asked the IT expert Curly Hair. He always guards a few computers and complains about boredom every day, but in reality he is a genius, and as long as there is an Internet, there is almost nothing he can't do.
Of course, Lamb, the boss of the Slough Ministry, only seems to like to "touch fish" on the surface, has no enterprising, and has the image of a middle-aged greasy and obscene man. But in fact, he is an elite **, has experienced **, torture, and even been shot, but he still survived, and his ability cannot be underestimated.
However, each of them has their own problems. Curly Brother has an extreme personality, and because a person grabbed his bus seat, he listed the other party as a ** criminal on the Internet;Lamb's assistant was an overly alcoholic and often indulged in fragments of the pastA middle-aged male subordinate once left a top-secret document on the train, and his reputation was ruined, his career collapsed, and ......his marriage broke down
In the second season, the ** became "workers", and most of them were not satisfied with the rest of their lives in this small department. So Raven went to a private intelligence agency to find a job, and the young couple in the department also accepted the task assigned by the headquarters. However, Raven was denied, and the man was ** in the middle of the mission.
* His number one suspect may have something to do with the latest assignment from the Slough department. The new mission involves the death of a former colleague of Lamb, who was fired for fleeing the scene before the fall of the Berlin Wall and later returning drunk, looking like an alcoholic.
However, he insisted that he had been kidnapped and doused with brandy, and then managed to escape and come back, which sounded bizarre, and the MI5 people naturally didn't believe it, so they fired him immediately. Years passed, and he came to his attention again because he died of a heart attack on the bus.
But Lamb found a word in his phone's memo that he left in the crevices of the bus: "cicada". Through investigative surveillance, it was discovered that he appeared to have been following a bald figure until his death. And during the tracking, his shoulder was also injected with ** drugs, which may prove that he didn't lie back then, so what is a "cicada"?What conspiracy have they been hiding behind for years?Finally, it is worth mentioning that the "Drifter" series has been renewed to a fourth season, and viewers who like this kind of drama can rest assured to catch up, and it is very worth watching!