India, Oct. 24 -- When Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) arrived on our screens in Season 1 of Slow Horses (2022-), he seemed anything but heroic.

To quote Oldman, he "single-handedly lowered the public's expectation of personal hygiene". He drinks in the mornings, and eats the most terrible slop; looks like he hasn't met a shower in a while, and seems to go out of his way to offend.

In short, he is no role model. There are no heroes on his team either. Slough House is a division set up to house MI5's disgraced agents.

River Cartwright (Jack Lowden) is capable, but makes the most spectacular mistakes. Roddy Ho (Christopher Chung) is a shifty tech wizard they couldn't fire, but also couldn't really keep on. The anti-social JK Coe (Tom Brooke; ...