Slow Horses (2022)
MI5's most unruly spies are back and under attack.
Follow a dysfunctional team of MI5 agents—and their obnoxious boss, the notorious Jackson Lamb—as they navigate the espionage world's smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.
| Type | TV series |
|---|---|
| First aired | 1 April 2022 |
| Status | Returning Series |
| Genre | Crime, Drama, Mystery |
| Starring | Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden and Kristin Scott Thomas |
| Seasons | 6 seasons, 36 episodes |
| Episode length | about 52 min |
| Time to watch it all | about 31 hours |
| Rated | TV-MA |
| Scores | TMDB users 8.0/10 |
Where to watch Slow Horses
Slow Horses is streaming on Apple TV+ ($12.99 a month) in the US. It is also on Prime Video ($8.99 a month). At ten hours a week, all of the series takes about 1 month of Prime Video, or $8.99 at list price.
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What kind of watch this is
Slow Horses is a 2022 series where MI5’s career-ending mistakes are banished to a basement of drudgery. Their boss, Jackson Lamb, expects them to quit from the boredom. They do not. Instead, they stumble into the espionage world’s smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces. Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden, and Kristin Scott Thomas navigate this dysfunction across 6 seasons and 36 episodes. That is roughly 31 hours of watching competent people fail spectacularly under a man who speaks to them like furniture. It is a dry, chaotic ride for anyone who finds bureaucratic punishment more interesting than heroism.
What the critics said
Critics didn’t just like Slow Horses; they leaned in. Rotten Tomatoes rates the first series at 95%, with a consensus praising Gary Oldman’s "masterclass in frumpy authority." Metacritic lands at 78. Series two hit 100% on Rotten Tomatoes and 84 on Metacritic, proving the sophomore jinx was a myth. The third season scored 98% and 85, earning Oldman Emmy and BAFTA nods. Series four maintained that 100% / 85 split, while series five dipped to 96% and 79, a slight exhale after the high bar. The consensus? It’s compulsive, bumbling, and unexpectedly sharp. Oldman’s nominations keep piling up, a testament to a performance that turns shabby offices into high-stakes drama.
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- Slow Horses on TMDB — synopsis, cast, ratings and recommendations
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- “Slow Horses” on Wikipedia, by its contributors (history) — reception, audience figures and legacy, summarised and adapted here under CC BY-SA 4.0
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