"Slow Horses" is back , and there's a bit of a vibe shift this season. Slough House's resident tech guru and overconfident blowhard Roddy Ho (Christopher Chung) has a girlfriend, and considering his questionable dating history (he was scammed by a bot in a previous season), this new relationship naturally raises some red flags for the slovenly but ruthlessly effective MI5 agent Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) . With Ho being front and center, this season is automatically going to be funnier than season 4, which was a dark exploration of River Cartwright (Jack Lowden)'s family lineage and buried secrets finally coming to light .

I recently had the opportunity to speak with showrunner Will Smith about that tonal shift. He's orchestrated the entire series so far, but is stepping away from th

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