Slow Horses, series four: 'swaggering' spy thriller returns

Gary Oldman is 'impeccable' in one of the 'most consistent' shows on TV

Gary Oldman in Slow Horses.
Gary Oldman is 'as corpulent and corrupt as ever'
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Based on a series of spy thriller novels by Mick Herron, "Slow Horses", which has returned to Apple TV+ for its fourth series, is a "jewel in the streaming service's crown", said Neil Armstrong on BBC Culture. The show about a rag-tag group of MI5 rejects has "lots to say about the UK", with its "London of grotty takeaways, depressing pubs and bin bags full of rubbish all over the streets".

The intelligence agents have each mucked up a mission in their own way or are just deemed no longer suitable to work at the Park, MI5's fictional HQ in London's Regent's Park. It's up to Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman), who is in charge of misfit-central Slough House, to get the MI5 rejects to quit.

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