Slow Horses (season five) ★★★★

Now in its fifth season, Apple TV+’s excellent spy drama Slow Horses has become an absolute master of pacing, sometimes cantering along, sometimes slowing to a trot, never mistiming its run. The new season opens, almost wordlessly, at a gallop: a young white man eats alone in his apartment, the only decoration being a poster on the wall – “treat your body like a temple, and your woman like a dog” – that immediately lays bare his incel tendencies.

He heads downstairs to a white van, opens the back door and retrieves something. He takes a seat on a bench, opposite a brown-skinned campaign worker for the upcoming London mayoral elections. He glares angrily as the man, clueless, says, “I hope Mayor Jaffrey can count on your vote”. And then he opens fire, ki

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