Slow Horses: Season 5

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Apple TV | Season Premiere Date: September 24, 2025

Summary: The Slough House team are dubious of Roddy's new girlfriend as they discover connections between a number of strange events in London in the fifth season of the espionage drama based on Mick Herron's book series.

Genre(s): Comedy, Drama, Suspense

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The Telegraph Anita Singh

Sep 16, 2025

The six episodes are perfectly paced. .... Slow Horses is unusual: a long-running show that hasn’t had a drop-off in quality. Read full review

IndieWire Ben Travers

Sep 24, 2025

Invigorating in its temerity, Smith’s six-episode Season 5 is told with propulsive clarity (save for the mysteries you’re intended to guess at). Chaos is sorted into appreciable story arcs without diluting its overwhelming effect on our heroes. Read full review

Collider Carly Lane

Sep 16, 2025

If Slow Horses Season 5 proves anything, it's that even an installment of this show that favors a back-to-basics approach is still definitely worth tuning in for. Read full review

The Independent Chris Bennion

Sep 24, 2025

Despite those quibbles, you know what you’re getting with Slow Horses. The performances remain superb, the script is as sharp as they come, and the comedy/action balance is handled beautifully. Read full review

Kyle Mullin

Oct 14, 2025

The mystery of the villain this season is intriguing, and culminates in a hugely satisfying twist in later episodes. That being said, some viewers will become impatient with that dynamic and miss the presence of a big baddie like Weaving’s, plotting schemes and chewing up scenery. .... But best of all is the surprisingly effective melancholy giving bite to the dark humored banter between the main Slough House cast. Read full review

Tim Lowery

Sep 16, 2025

[Feels] thinner and, dramatically, less emotionally complex. Some of that is bound to happen when you take characters who have mostly been on the back burner and move them closer to the front. .... But that doesn’t make any of this less delightful to watch, maybe just less fulfilling. Read full review

Empire Nick de Semlyen

Sep 18, 2025

The Slough House screw-ups continue to entertain, even though this particular story’s mix of intensity and comedy doesn’t always gel. Read full review

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Series Overview
Season 5

79
- Season 5 Overview
  Air Date: September 24, 2025
- No episode information is currently available for this season
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