Comic spy thriller comes with biting humour and dysfunctional office politics
Will Smith, the showrunner, discusses the comic spy thriller, which is back for a fourth season, and is up for nine Emmy Awards next week.
Gary Oldman plays a slovenly spymaster in “Slow Horses.” Apple TV+
The British spies at the centre of the Apple TV+ series Slow Horses aren’t particularly handsome, or efficient, or disciplined. They’re rejects from MI5, consigned to a dark, dingy London office run by Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman), a slovenly, scotch-swilling, flatulent burnout. Early in season four, Lamb objects when a new no-nonsense MI5 officer (Ruth Bradley) handcuffs him during an investigation.
“I’d rather not take any chances with a man who looks like he gropes people on buses,” she tells him.
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