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Apple TV+’s Slow Horses returns – can the misfit MI5 agents taking on the Russians crack another case?
- Gary Oldman and his band of sorry MI5 agents attempt to solve a case involving everyone’s favourite bad guys, the Russians, in season two of Slow Horses
- Meanwhile, in K-drama Connect on Disney+, a man with an unusual superpower loses an eye and finds it connects him to the organ’s recipient – a sadistic killer
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Slow Horses (Apple TV+) begins its second season with an extended, dialogue-free introduction – appropriate for a show all about keeping secrets.
Hauling on the stain-splashed flasher’s raincoat for another bravura performance as flatulent slob Jackson Lamb is star man Gary Oldman.
The chief of not so much a section as a ragtag assortment of misfit British MI5 agents sidelined for botching previous operations, Lamb hides his sharp intellect behind his alcoholic, heavy smoker’s grubby manners – seen to revolting effect here as he slurps noodles in a Chinese restaurant.
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New crew members for this season include, notably, Aimee-Ffion Edwards of Detectorists fame, alongside the returning Christopher Chung as obstinate, uncooperative hacker Roddy Ho.
This time, the job is to crack a case clearly based on the Salisbury poisonings of 2018, again involving everyone’s favourite bad guys: the Russians. Although they may have been put out to pasture, Lamb’s disparaged operatives might yet have the chops to roast the nauseating villains.
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