Slow Horses
Gary Oldham is Jackson Lamb in "Slow Horses." Apple TV+ photo via IMDb.com Picture Britain's greatest secret agent reimagined, not as James Bond but as a flatulent, foul-mouthed, whiskey-swilling slob under a lion's mane of unwashed hair in holey socks always propped among the cigarette butts on his desk. Meet Jackson Lamb. After spending a couple of weeks bingeing through four and a half seasons of “Slow Horses,” I find I've become a fanboy. I may have come to the party late, but I'm hardly alone in my fondness for Apple TV's brilliantly written, white-knuckle exciting, nauseatingly violent and genius-level hilarious spy thriller that gets a bunch of nominations whenever they hand out television awards. As magnificently portrayed by Gary Oldman, Jackson Lamb actually sleeps in his permanently wrinkled shirt and tie on a dingy sofa in his dingy office. Whether asleep or awake – sometimes it's hard to tell – he farts a lot. Hy...