"Rightwing politics is an area that Apple TV+'s spy drama has tackled before; back in season one, a British-Pakistani student was memorably taken on a joyride by a nationalist group named Sons of Albion, who threatened to behead him on a live stream. However, like many things in the Slow Horses universe based on Mick Herron's bestselling novels about a group of MI5 rejects the opening proves something of a red herring."
"Worse still, people-pleasing agent River Cartwright (Jack Lowden) has undergone a personality bypass, and spends much of the series acting in a way that can only be described as unnervingly dickish. (Lowden pulls it off, but it does feel rather unbecoming for the show's unofficial hero.) Still, it figures: as well as observing his grandfather David's rapid descent into dementia, last season saw River discover that his real dad was an ex-CIA agent turned cult"
The fifth season of Slow Horses opens with a gun attack by a follower of a far-right politician and briefly shows St George's crosses. The series uses a misleading opening that shifts focus away from any single antagonist; white nationalists, environmental activists and hostile foreign actors all feature but none dominate. The season feels overstuffed and lacking in substance. River Cartwright undergoes a stark personality change, behaving unnervingly dickish despite a capable performance by Jack Lowden. River's recent traumatic backstory includes his grandfather's dementia and the revelation that his biological father was an ex-CIA agent turned cult leader. A separate subplot involves Roddy Ho's new girlfriend and the possibility she is using him to access classified intelligence.
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