Ill tell you whos boring: astronauts.
Show me an astronaut and Ill show you someone whos only ever made sensible choices in life.
Study hard, work out, eat right.
When youre driving somebody elses 10 billion dollar space van, you cant afford to get creative.
Thats why theres no such thing as a maverick astronaut; the insurance would never cover it.
Put an astronaut in a TV show and create an instant vacuum of dull, reliable excellence.
Unpredictable losers in TV shows aremuchmore entertaining.
Unpredictable losers whose nihilistic fug conceals a brain sharper than several tacks are even more entertaining than that.
For proof: see Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb inSlow Horses.
Ex-Cold War MI5 agent Jackson Lamb is a sentient grease stain.
His socks are holed.
His hair is lank.
Hes got sausage juice on his trousers.
His diet is deep-fried and his cheap whisky is as on-the-dregs as the rest of him.
The slow horses of Slough House are a joke to the preppy, pristine agents of Regents Park HQ.
Or at least thats how Lamb presents.
It suits him to be underestimated and for his people to be the butt of jokes.
Going unobserved, after all, is what spies do.
When Jackson Lamb is good, hes very, very good.
Its that much fun and more.
Nothing seems to touch him.
Dont be mistaken, beneath Lambs carapace isnt a heart of gold.
Hes no secret Dumbledore.
He doesnt treat his team mean to bring out the best in them.
Hes just… mean.
He expects his slow horses to keep up and is pitiless when they dont.
Hes pitiless in general.
That thing isGary Oldman.
Slow Horses seasons one to three are available to stream onApple TV+.
