The Timing of ‘Slow Horses’ Season 5 Is Not a Fluke

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AppleTV+’s Slow Horses has established a wryly grim world of spycraft where the scrappy wash-outs of Slough House battle their Regent’s Park bosses about as often as they fight criminals and terrorists. There’s a sideways irony to the series, a gallows-humor detachment common to the more brutal service industries. No matter what darkness befell them, the misfit toys of MI5 soldiered through four seasons of shaggy-dog espionage. In Slow Horses ’ new fifth season, the bill has come due, and our favorite agents are made to grapple with their trying experiences. The sobering inciting incident, a politically-motivated shooting spree, is made all the heavier for American viewers by coming at an especially r

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