Slow Horses: Season 1

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Slow Horses: Season 2

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Apple TV | Season Premiere Date: April 1, 2022

Summary: A group of MI5 agents demoted to desk duty led by Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) seek redemption in the espionage drama based on Mick Herron's Slough House novels.

Genre(s): Comedy, Drama, Suspense

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Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E6. Follies
Air Date: April 29, 2022
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S1:E5. Fiasco
Air Date: April 22, 2022
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S1:E4. Visiting Hours
Air Date: April 15, 2022

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Shane Ryan

Mar 30, 2022

Slow Horses manages the incredible task of being a human redemption story, a genuinely funny comedy, and above all, a terrific spy saga. Read full review

Alison Foreman

Mar 25, 2022

Slow Horses’s first season is chock full of characters, lines, and moments that will work brilliantly for fans of spy thrillers—not gritty spy thrillers, not action-packed spy thrillers, but straight-laced, classic, by-the-book ones. ... This conventional addition to an already crowded genre counts as a confirmed kill. Read full review

Empire Boyd Hilton

Mar 25, 2022

A grimily authentic espionage yarn populated by a bunch of funny, intriguing “losers, misfits and boozers”, as they’re described in the lyrics of the wonderfully atmospheric Mick Jagger theme song. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Matt Roush

Apr 7, 2022

Slow Horses shifts into high gear with grisly twists aplenty. [11 - 24 Apr 2022, p.7] Read full review

Collider Abby Cavenaugh

Mar 25, 2022

Slow Horses is at its ultimate best when it focuses on Cartwright, Lamb, and Scott Thomas's Diana Taverner. ... If the series trimmed the fat, it would succeed at being a lot more compelling. Read full review

Chris Vognar

Mar 29, 2022

“Slow Horses” melds a quick wit and vivid personality with a propulsive narrative that makes you want to seek out the source novels. Read full review

The Guardian Stuart Jeffries

Apr 1, 2022

Mood? Tense. Genre? Hokum. Script? By numbers. Likelihood of you catching whole series? I’ll get back to you. Read full review

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katezoe

May 26, 2022

One of the best shows of 2022. Gary Oldman is great. Old school spy thriller that keeps you guessing.

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Hairlesssheep

Apr 6, 2022

Best thing I have ever seen on Apple+. A tense and compelling spy drama laced with smidgens of good humour making the characters likeable. Only a six part series so I am hoping for more seasons if the story permits.

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mikej147

Apr 1, 2022

Remarkable show so far. Oldman is in top form as a aging spymaster along with a superb Kristen Scott Thomas who lead a team of fine young actors. Please don't listen to right wing trolls who don't like how they are portrayed. Yes Jingoism, bigotry, lunacy, narcissism, and idiocy are theRemarkable show so far. Oldman is in top form as a aging spymaster along with a superb Kristen Scott Thomas who lead a team of fine young actors. Please don't listen to right wing trolls who don't like how they are portrayed. Yes Jingoism, bigotry, lunacy, narcissism, and idiocy are the hallmarks of any far right group. Primarily it's an inability to face reality that most defines them.… Expand

7 of 10 users found this helpful73

geewah

May 3, 2022

An enjoyable, well-paced and at times funny espionage drama that benefits greatly from Gary Oldman's role as the cantankerous Lamb.

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Muji

Apr 3, 2022

Great Spy thriller based on the "down and outs" of MI5 that have been banished to their own version of hell - a desk job in a run down part of town called Slough House with all perks of job removed. Gary Oldman is fantastic as the burnt out, seen it all head of branch, Jackson Lamb. It's aGreat Spy thriller based on the "down and outs" of MI5 that have been banished to their own version of hell - a desk job in a run down part of town called Slough House with all perks of job removed. Gary Oldman is fantastic as the burnt out, seen it all head of branch, Jackson Lamb. It's a shame that trolls have seen fit to sabotage the series score.… Expand

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shoulderoforion

Apr 2, 2022

Slow Horses is right up my alley, British Spy fiction with a twist. Also ran MI5 rejects all put in one place to keep an eye on, with rich character histories of failure. It's delicious. First two eps are great, this is a treat.

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OlivierPiel

Apr 4, 2022

It's drab, it's shabby, it's verbose, it's overwrought, it's slow, it's dumb, it's a lazy paycheck for has-been actors mailing it in, and it's parading as a clichéd woke metaphore on English nationalism. And I, as a French, no, a Breton from Brittany, descendant of those thrown out byIt's drab, it's shabby, it's verbose, it's overwrought, it's slow, it's dumb, it's a lazy paycheck for has-been actors mailing it in, and it's parading as a clichéd woke metaphore on English nationalism. And I, as a French, no, a Breton from Brittany, descendant of those thrown out by Anglo-saxons, yeah you dumb unwordly Americans wouldn't know, am defending English against this self-righteous nonsense.
Brexit was dumb. Farage and BoJo are trash, but at least we can engage them. But leftist propaganda, such as this, has to be conspued and defeated.… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

82

Series Overview
Season 5

79
- Season 5 Overview
  Air Date: September 24, 2025
Season 4

85
- Season 4 Overview
  Air Date: September 4, 2024
Season 3

85
- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: November 29, 2023
Season 2

84
- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: December 2, 2022
Season 1

78
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: April 1, 2022
- tbd
  S1:E6. Follies
  Air Date: April 29, 2022
- tbd
  S1:E5. Fiasco
  Air Date: April 22, 2022
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  S1:E4. Visiting Hours
  Air Date: April 15, 2022
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  S1:E3. Bad Tradecraft
  Air Date: April 8, 2022
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  S1:E2. Work Drinks
  Air Date: April 1, 2022
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  S1:E1. Failure's Contagious
  Air Date: April 1, 2022