{"id":2061938,"date":"2025-10-01T12:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T12:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2061938"},"modified":"2025-10-01T12:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T12:16:07","slug":"slow-horses-team-on-lambs-tough-love-to-river-slough-house-in-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/slow-horses-team-on-lambs-tough-love-to-river-slough-house-in-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Slow Horses\u2019 Team on Lamb\u2019s \u2018Tough Love\u2019 to River &#038; Slough House in Lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for\u00a0<em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/slow-horses\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Slow Horses;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Slow Horses<\/a><\/em> Season 5 Episode 2 \u201cTall Tales.\u201d]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Slough House is in lockdown! The latest episode of\u00a0<em>Slow Horses<\/em> ends with Diana Taverner (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/kristin-scott-thomas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kristin Scott Thomas;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Kristin Scott Thomas<\/a>) putting Jackson Lamb (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/gary-oldman\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Gary Oldman;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Gary Oldman<\/a>) and his team on ice while she has Roddy Ho (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/christopher-chung\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Christopher Chung;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Christopher Chung<\/a>) brought to the Park for questioning (someone\u2019s been <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/tv\/articles\/slow-horses-team-talks-major-120042990.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:trying to kill him;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">trying to kill him<\/a>, and his girlfriend is involved). We have a feeling that having the Slow Horses and MI5 officers all in the same place will make for quite entertaining television, though we can\u2019t forget there\u2019s a serious situation going on outside that building (there\u2019s already been a shooting at a campaign spot).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThe Slow Horses, one of their essential problems is they\u2019re never quite involved \u2014 they never should be quite involved with what\u2019s going on except they\u2019re always drawn into it because that\u2019s the nature of TV drama,\u201d director Saul Metzstein tells TV Insider.\u00a0\u201cWe even prefigure all that because in the beginning of Episode 1 is a very violent, horrible thing going on, and then the next sequence is an idiot dancing down the street to Robert Palmer, so it\u2019s already set up is that they have a peripheral relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He continues, \u201cI thought it was a very clever bit of writing to make some feeling by doing the opposite of what you think you want characters to do, and I think by actually stranding them by actually locking them down and making them have to deal, have to even sit there with each other in the room \u2014 I mean, one of the things I love about it is they all hate being in the room with all these other guys. And I think of course the basic underlying joke in <em>Slow Horses<\/em> is that everyone there thinks they\u2019re OK and the other guys are useless. And so any amount of time that they\u2019re put together, to me, is quite valuable. And it\u2019s also just a nice counterintuitive way of making some television where you think we\u2019ve got to have some action but we\u2019re going to have some action by stopping them getting involved in the action. That seemed like quite a nice idea.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>Jack Lowden as River Cartwright \u2014 &#8216;Slow Horses&#8217; Season 5 Episode 2 &#8220;Tall Tales&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Apple TV+<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Leading up to that, the team has finally accepted that Shirley Dander (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/aimee-ffion-edwards\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Aimee-Ffion Edwards;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Aimee-Ffion Edwards<\/a>) was right and someone was targeting Roddy, first by trying to run him over in the premiere (while he was dancing down the street), then in his apartment. River Cartwright (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/jack-lowden\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jack Lowden;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Jack Lowden<\/a>), however, had brushed it off and left her to follow Roddy alone, only for her to end up in a dangerous situation. Lamb calls him out on standing down, and River apologizes, wanting to move past the bit where his boss ignores him to when he tells him what to do. But as Lamb sees it and tells him, everyone else is \u201cmore functional than you. \u2026 Your world stopped when your grandpa went gaga and your dad tried to blow you up. Deal with it or f**k off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">That\u2019s \u201cquite tough love,\u201d says executive producer Will Smith. \u201cIt\u2019s not the best kind of HR guidance, but they\u2019re both frustrated with each other at that point. And that was a thing that both Gary and Jack were looking for. Jack was like, \u2018Can I have a moment where I really go at him?\u2019 And then Gary was like, \u2018I want to hit back harder.\u2019 And that\u2019s where it ended up, and it\u2019s a great moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He shares that he\u2019s spoken with\u00a0<em>Slough House<\/em> series author Mick Herron and Oldman, \u201cand we all agree that there\u2019s 1, 2% more warmth in Gary\u2019s Lamb than there is in the Lamb in the books. So, Gary always feels that Lamb sees potential in River, but he also just knows what it\u2019s going to do to him knows he\u2019s too naive and too idealistic and \u2018I\u2019m the cautionary tale, don\u2019t end up like me.\u2019 I think he also resents because he hates River\u2019s grandfather, it\u2019s hard for him to like River. And River also has a sense of entitlement, thinks he\u2019s better than he is. So, Lamb is always trying to slap him down, but also knows that out of all of them there, I think, Catherine [<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/saskia-reeves\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Saskia Reeves;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Saskia Reeves<\/a>] is definitely the sharpest agent, but River is the most effective in the field, and so he kind of has to use River.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">And he certainly needs River now, given what\u2019s going on and the fact that one of their own has been targeted and is now at the Park. But still, Roddy refuses to accept his girlfriend could be involved. \u201cHe\u2019s a perpetual man-child,\u201d points out Chung. \u201cThis is\u00a0puppy dog love, and I think anyone who tries to come between an adolescent and their first real love, say a parent, say Lamb, say Taverner, you\u2019re not going to hear it. It\u2019s never going to go in. \u2018All the things that you are saying to me, that\u2019s not how I see the world.\u2019 But the way that he sees the world is completely skewed from reality. So, he refuses to engage with anything that doesn\u2019t support his narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Elsewhere in the episode, First Desk Claude Whelan (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/james-callis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:James Callis;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">James Callis<\/a>) is stopped by a man working for a columnist, Dodie Gimbal (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/victoria-hamilton\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Victoria Hamilton;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Victoria Hamilton<\/a>), the wife of mayoral candidate Dennis Gimbal (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/christopher-villiers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Christopher Villiers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Christopher Villiers<\/a>), and questioned about a certain security conference in Copenhagen. While he is \u201creally concerned,\u201d it\u2019s strictly personal, says Callis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cHe\u2019s not sharp enough or in some fashion, he doesn\u2019t have the concern of necessarily controlling his own narrative. If he did would be he\u2019d be a different person,\u201d he explains. \u201cThe reason that it\u2019s so important is his wife must never know. The service can go like whatever, go hang itself. You can get over that or your colleagues saying that you had an elicit rendezvous with a waitress, with whoever and whatever. That\u2019s along the lines of scandal. If we look today, I mean, talk about a beginner. I\u2019m not sure how long \u2014 that wouldn\u2019t even be in the headlines for five minutes before something else happens. So, the real deal is that his wife who can never know. He\u2019s trying to protect that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong><em>Slow Horses<\/em>, Wednesdays, Apple TV+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the latest entertainment news on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:TV Insider;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">TV Insider<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for\u00a0Slow Horses Season 5 Episode 2 \u201cTall Tales.\u201d] Slough House is in lockdown! 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