Slow Horses

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Season 1
  • Network: Apple TV
  • Series Premiere Date: Apr 1, 2022
Season #: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
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
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  1. Hairlesssheep
    Apr 6, 2022
    10
    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.
  2. 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 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.
  3. shoulderoforion
    Apr 2, 2022
    8
    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.
  4. 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 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.
  5. 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'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 thisIt'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
  6. UncleWillard
    Apr 4, 2022
    3
    Slow is apt, because this moves at a crawl for me. I was surprised by the opening sequence as it didn't appear slow at all. It looked like a typical, Brit action/techno thriller. But I get it, how the might have fallen and all, and prettier Simon Pegg (sorry Simon, you're very pretty, but this guy just comes off as a polished version of you) ends up in **** with Gary Oldman and others. ISlow is apt, because this moves at a crawl for me. I was surprised by the opening sequence as it didn't appear slow at all. It looked like a typical, Brit action/techno thriller. But I get it, how the might have fallen and all, and prettier Simon Pegg (sorry Simon, you're very pretty, but this guy just comes off as a polished version of you) ends up in **** with Gary Oldman and others. I found myself playing Candy Crush on my phone, tbh. I'm just not interested.… Expand
  7. katezoe
    May 26, 2022
    10
    One of the best shows of 2022. Gary Oldman is great. Old school spy thriller that keeps you guessing.
  8. geewah
    May 3, 2022
    9
    An enjoyable, well-paced and at times funny espionage drama that benefits greatly from Gary Oldman's role as the cantankerous Lamb.
  9. zarifebolsu49
    Apr 11, 2022
    10
    Another amazing Apple Show. I love it. Gary Oldman and Jack Lowdon has incredible performance.

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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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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
  1. TV Guide Magazine
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    Apr 7, 2022
    80
    Slow Horses shifts into high gear with grisly twists aplenty. [11 - 24 Apr 2022, p.7]
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  2. Consequence
    Reviewed by: Clint Worthington
    Apr 5, 2022
    83
    Slow Horses hardly reinvents the wheel, mostly comfortable with recycling spy-story archetypes with a few minor twists here and there. But when it’s this entertaining, and you get to hear Gary Oldman curse people out with ridiculously-complex bon mots in between fish-and-chips toots, it’s hard to complain about the end product.
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  3. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    Apr 1, 2022
    80
    It has action, tense kidnapping scenes, a politically resonant and timely subtext, and a compellingly sour lead character — Oldman’s MI5 agent Jackson Lamb — who is as cynical and weary as he is brilliant. At moments, the story gets a little tangled, but ultimately, by the end of six episodes, it holds up.
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