It combines the action scenes of a spy thriller with the joy of seeing a marvellously greasy Gary Oldman contemplating washing his armpits with Fairy Liquid. It’s on Apple TV+, which most people don’t ...

The one in which Gary Oldman dons a greasy wig and eats greasy food as spook gone-to-seed Jackson Lamb, who still is a few steps ahead of MI6 and everyone else when it all kicks off.

It’s clever. It’s fun. It combines the action scenes of a spy thriller with the joy of seeing a marvellously greasy Gary Oldman contemplating washing his armpits with Fairy Liquid.