“The show has real energy. It’s funny and feels smart even when it’s not,” writes Tribune critic Nina Metz.
Gary Oldman as the dissolute but canny Jackson Lamb in Season 2 of"Slow Horses,” the spy thriller with a dark sense of humor.
With its dark sense of humor and propulsive pacing, the linchpin of the series is the head outcast himself, Jackson Lamb. The new season doesn’t bother with a preamble but dives headfirst into the story: An aging British spy from the Cold War era is found dead on a bus. Heart attack, says the official report. Lamb suspects murder.Rumpled, smelly and greasy-haired as ever, Gary Oldman’s performance elevates Lamb’s rancid presentation to high art. He’s a man of contradiction: Dissolute but shrewd.
Separately, there’s a Russian oligarch living in exile in London with political aspirations back home. He has an eye on the top job apparently, and he’d like to set up an ultra-private meeting to discuss how the British government can help with that. So a couple of Lamb’s agents are tasked with setting up the security logistics for this clandestine affair. It’s shaping up to be a tense assignment, judging by the thuggish Russian bodyguards with whom they’re working.
But Lamb needs someone undercover in the Cotswolds to root out one of those Russian sleeper agents, so he taps River for the job and you can practically see the young guy’s thoughts form in a bubble over his head: Finally, some action! Lowden has a great presence, eager and alert. But he’s off on his own for most of the season, which isn’t as much fun as seeing him mix it up with his colleagues, especially Lamb.
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