Every resigned gesture and every disdainful line reading is just right. It is a delightful performance from a great dramatic actor who isn’t allowed to be funny nearly as often as he should be. His hair is long and ratty, there are holes in his socks (which you can see because he frequently takes off his shoes at work), every pore and wrinkle on his face is on glaring display, and the only thing that tends to interrupt his regular naps at his desk is the sound of his own frequent farts. Lamb is presented as a man who has utterly given up.
When a civilian witnesses the Slow Horses in unconventional action and asks what kind of spies they are, River shrugs and says, “Hard to tell, really.”Ī decade ago, Gary Oldman played a very different kind of British agent in the 2011 version of John Le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Solder Spy. When new-ish Slough House resident River Cartwright (Jack Lowden) asks Lamb what they are going to do about the public kidnapping of a Muslim student by a group of white nationalists, Lamb replies, “What we always do here: absolutely nothing.” (In Min’s case, he absent-mindedly left confidential information on a train for commuters to find.) Each has been assigned to an office known as Slough House, given demeaning, pointless busywork in the hopes that they will quit. The Slow Horses, Lamb included, are all disgraced members of the British intelligence community for one reason or another. Lamb’s contempt for Min extends to all of the agents under his command, and with good reason.
“If you meant to kill him, he’d still be alive.”
Lamb’s mortified underling Min Harper (Dustin Demri-Burns) insists that he didn’t mean to kill this man. Midway through Apple TV+’s new British spy series Slow Horses, veteran intelligence agent Jackson Lamb ( Gary Oldman) studies a dead body at the bottom of the steps to his dingy office.
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