![]() Elsewhere, however, River is out interviewing for a job at a private security firm, but his prospects are high comedy for his interrogators, who mostly want to plug him for Lamb stories, despite his role in rescuing Hassan last season. The ever-reliable Standish has resumed her post, as has Roddy Ho, the hacking “thoroughbred” who’s now grousing about having to share a cramped downstairs space with a new agent named Shirley (Aimee-Ffion Edwards of Peaky Blinders). The joke of the opening, however, is that nearly everyone is so deeply unhappy with their lot under Lamb that they’re not even showing up to the office. Still, here we are: New season, new book (Mick Herron’s 2013 novel Dead Lions, the second in his Slough House series), cleanish slate. ![]() ![]() That doesn’t mean the memories of Jackson Lamb’s rivalry with Diana Taverner are erased - or, for that matter, the undercard of River Cartwright and the weaselly James “Spider” Webb rather, they’re added to the bitterness and cynicism that defines Lamb’s operation, which is a purgatory for gifted-but-disgraced spies who may never have an opportunity to level up (and, even if they did, may find the Park too unsavory a home in which to reside). ![]() ![]() Considering the events of last season, when the slobs-versus-snobs battle between Slough House and Regents Park escalated to career- and life-threatening treachery, it’s funny to witness the second season of Slow Horses start essentially at square one. ![]()
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