‘Slow Horses’ Channels ‘Final Destination’ in Horrific Scene

(Warning: Spoilers ahead.)

Do you ever walk near scaffolding and worry that something will fall and hit you on the head? Does a construction site set off a deadly Rube Goldberg machine scenario in your mind like it does mine? Slow Horses takes a page from the chain reaction playbook with darkly comedic and fatal consequences. Sometimes gravity is out to get us.

Part of the Slow Horses special sauce is its ability to weave dark humor amid the espionage thrills. I can’t think of another show that deploys a flatulence-aided plan and a story about Stasi torture to construct an escape from MI5 forced lockdown. Mixing genres comes easily to the Apple TV+ adaptation of Mick Herron’s espionage book series, which is why this play on a Final Destination freak death scenario fits the incompetence