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Slow Horses

Based on the Slough House novel series.

Photo: FX

When an MI5 agent screws up big time they’re sent to Slough House, a sort of intelligence purgatory. While Gary Oldman’s Jackson Lamb, the frequently drunk boss of the “Slow Horses” is eager to antagonize and berate the agents under him, it’s not too long before the agency gets involved with something much more serious.

The Apple TV+ show, now in its second season with two more already ordered, is based on the Slough House novel series by author Mick Herron. Jack Lowden, Kristen Scott Thomas, Olivia Cooke, Jonathan Pryce, and more star alongside Oldman.

  1. Episode 6 Old Scores
    Slow Horses Season-Finale Recap: Professional Humiliation Lamb scrambles as a seemingly innocuous character turns out to be the guy behind the guy responsible for the whole mess.
  2. Episode 5 Boardroom Politics
    Slow Horses Recap: A Ticking Bomb As Slow Horses careens toward its season finale next week, it’s leaning on another classic action trope: a bomb about to go off.
  3. Episode 4 Cicada
    Slow Horses Recap: Thumbs-Down Gary Oldman’s Lamb will calmly walk into danger to get to the bottom of Min’s murder. (Don’t ask him to run, though. His heart can’t take it.)
  4. Episode 3 Drinking Games
    Slow Horses Recap: Acceptance Comes In Pour one out for Min Harper who died as he lived — making terrible errors in judgment.
  5. Episode 2 From Upshott With Love
    Slow Horses Recap: Walk Into It After the combustible season-two premiere, “From Upshott With Love” taps the brakes a bit too hard.
  6. Episode 1 Last Stop
    Slow Horses Season-Premiere Recap: Cicada New season, new book (Mick Herron’s 2013 novel Dead Lions, the second in his Slough House series), clean-ish slate.
  1. Episode 6 Footprints
    Slow Horses Season-Finale Recap: Home Alone An incident-packed, drum-tight finale sets the table for a fourth season.
  2. Episode 5 Cleaning Up
    Slow Horses Recap: Checkmate So this entire season has been about Ingrid and Diana moving pieces around the board.
  3. Episode 4 Uninvited Guests
    Slow Horses Recap: Best-Laid Plans The more we learn about Ingrid, the more questions come up.
  4. Episode 3 Negotiating with Tigers
    Slow Horses Recap: Corrupted Files It’s delightful to see the buffoonery of insiders and power players who are constantly left with their pants around their ankles.
  5. Episode 2 Hard Lessons
    Slow Horses Recap: Keep Walking These first two episodes have felt as busy as the climaxes of previous seasons.
  6. Episode 1 Strange Games
    Slow Horses Season-Premiere Recap: Ringo Level Our lovable spy rejects are back, and it’s maybe alarming how comfortable it feels to find ourselves in another twisty story.

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