It's been less than a year since the Slow Horses season 4 finale, and the banished detectives of Slough House are as slow to recover from those tragic events as the audience. On the surface, not much has changed with our plucky but disreputable agents, but episode 1 reveals that the events of the previous season have left some major holes in the confidence and sanity of Jackson Lamb's (Gary Oldman) stable of donkeys. Just as the windows and cabinets of Slough House remain unrepaired, so too do our characters.

Slow Horses gets right into the mayhem and keeps a steady thrumming beat through the second episode while expertly pulling us into a gripping plot that has the members of Slough House directly in its crosshairs. Lamb is the only one still operating at his full capacity, with

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