Slow Horses Episode 5 showdown: Kyle Soller says it felt like a horror film
In Slow Horses Season 3, Kyle Soller talks through Jim’s death scene and clears up one point that got mixed up: the secure archive facility showdown, where River Cartwright and Sid Baker chase Jim down and fight him to the death, happens in Episodes 5 and 6, not Season 6. Soller said shooting it felt like being in a horror film, “very cold, very wet, and very unforgiving,” which goes a long way toward explaining the grim, claustrophobic feel it has on screen.
He also had more to say about Jim and Jane. Soller said he and MyAnna Buring wanted that relationship to carry extra tension, along with the kind of attraction nobody says out loud. His sense of it was that Jim seems conflicted, maybe even searching for some way out through Jane, while Jane stays the more hardline believer.
Soller also said he and Tom Brooke went back to Mick Herron’s books while shaping the bathroom fight and the action around it. If Slow Horses is at its best for you when it gets ugly, physical, and stripped, of any spy glamour, this is well worth watching. It’s a big reason Episode 5 stood out in a season that helped the series hit a 97% Rotten Tomatoes score, according to Rotten Tomatoes.
You can watch Slow Horses on Apple TV+, where Season 4 has already finished airing and Season 5 has also been ordered.
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