“It takes a certain swagger to make a thriller about terror attacks, online radicalisation and the rise of the far-right in Britain, and then to make that thriller very funny indeed,” said Rebecca Nicholson in the Financial Times . But “Slow Horses” has returned to the small screen for its fifth season with a “renewed sense of nihilism and wit”.

Following a “fun but functional” fourth series , Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) and his team of disgraced MI5 misfits are “licking their wounds” at Slough House. River Cartwright (Jack Lowden) is feeling “understandably glum” after discovering the real identity of his biological father, while the rest of the team are “burnt out, disaffected and tired of their friends dying all the time”.

So it’s a “treat” that the latest series focuses on Roddy H

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