Slow Horses (season five) ★★★★Now in its fifth season, Apple TV+’s excellent spy drama Slow Horses has become an absolute master of pacing, sometimes cantering along, sometimes slowing to a trot, never mistiming its run. The new season opens, almost wordlessly, at a gallop: a young white man eats alone in his apartment, the only decoration being a poster on the wall – “treat your body like a temple, and your woman like a dog” – that immediately lays bare his incel tendencies. Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman), the dishevelled leader of a team of MI5 outcasts in Slow Horses S5. Credit: Apple TV+He heads downstairs to a white van, opens the back door and retrieves something. He takes a seat on a bench, opposite a brown-skinned campaign worker for the upcoming London mayoral elections.