Good news, fans of misanthropic espionage dramas – Slow Horses is back. Again! The fastest-moving show on the box (five seasons in five years, almost unheard of in the streaming era) is returning to Apple TV+ for Season 5 , ready to bring fresh exploits of Jackson Lamb (a riotously grumpy Gary Oldman) and his department of MI5 fuck-ups in another twist-filled case. Based on Mick Herron’s London Rules , this season puts Christopher Chung’s sneering IT edgelord Roddy Ho front and centre – the biggest mystery of all being, how has he somehow found himself a girlfriend?

“We were all just rubbing our hands,” showrunner Will Smith tells Empire of where Herron’s novels steer this season. “‘Ho gets a girlfriend?!’ Straight away, that’s hilarious, but it’s also a great mystery, because

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