Slow Horses (2022)

Directed by

James Hawes

Genre

espionage television series

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Length

6 seasons, 36 episodes

Rated

TV-MA

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 893 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Misfit disgraced MI5 agents are sent to a dead-end department called Slough House. Their gruff boss Jackson Lamb oversees them as they stumble into an espionage plot that puts them back in the field.

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What happens

Slow Horses is a British spy thriller television series based on the Slough House novels by Mick Herron, and adapted for television by the English comedian and writer Will Smith. It follows an MI5 unit where disgraced or failed agents are consigned, under the supervision of Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman). It also stars Jack Lowden, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jonathan Pryce, Saskia Reeves, Rosalind Eleazar, Christopher Chung and Aimee-Ffion Edwards. The series premiered on Apple TV+ on 1 April 2022 to highly positive reviews. The first five series have adapted the novels Slow Horses, Dead Lions, Real Tigers, Spook Street, and London Rules, respectively. Slow Horses has been renewed for a sixth and seventh series, based on the novels Joe Country and Slough House (series 6) and Bad Actors (series 7). The sixth series is set to premiere on 16 September 2026. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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