Overview

• The new season on Apple TV+ spotlights Roddy Ho, whose unexpected romance intersects with a wider plot after a London shooting.
• The six-episode storyline adapts Mick Herron’s fifth Slough House novel, London Rules, giving Roddy a front-and-centre role.
• Empire praises the series’ energy and humor but finds the villains forgettable and the shifts between brutality and comedy jarring.
• Expanded focus on Roddy and new First Desk Claude Whelan reduces screen time for Jackson Lamb and River Cartwright, which a review says softens the ensemble’s usual spark.
• Christopher Chung says creators shaped Roddy to avoid racial stereotyping and notes the show’s enthusiastic following that reportedly includes real intelligence viewers and Queen Camilla.