Slow Horses

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Season 1
  • Network: Apple TV
  • Series Premiere Date: Apr 1, 2022
Season #: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 22 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 22
  3. Negative: 0 out of 22
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Critic Reviews

  1. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Stuart Jeffries
    Apr 1, 2022
    60
    Mood? Tense. Genre? Hokum. Script? By numbers. Likelihood of you catching whole series? I’ll get back to you.

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#68 Best TV Season of 2022
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#62 Most Discussed TV Season of 2022

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User Score
7.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 33 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 26 out of 33
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 33
  3. Negative: 5 out of 33
  1. mikej147
    Apr 1, 2022
    10
    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 youngRemarkable 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.… Full Review »
  2. OlivierPiel
    Apr 4, 2022
    0
    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'sIt'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.    … Full Review »
  3. Muji
    Apr 3, 2022
    8
    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 ofGreat 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.… Full Review »
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