Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb
(Picture: Apple TV+)It starts, appropriately, in the pissing rain.
This most unglamorous of spy series, based on the Slough House series of books by Mick Herron, delights in a peculiarly British kind of crapness. A wet London afternoon in a grotty Soho sex shop (they don’t make ‘em like that anymore, alas) is a fitting setting for the start of another season among the denizens of Slough House, a comically dingy office with a door you have to kick open, where rubbish spies who have proven too shite or shambolic for MI5 are remaindered like so many copies of a poorly received celebrity biography.
