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Slow Horses (TV Series)

Slow Horses

2022

James Hawes

Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden, Kristin Scott Thomas, Olivia Cooke ...

7.3

2,763

TV Series. Mystery. Thriller TV Series (2022-). 3 Seasons. 18 Episodes. After a botched and publicly embarrassing training mission, British MI5 agent River Cartwright is exiled to Slough House, an administrative purgatory for service rejects.

Renewed for a fourth and fifth season.

	Author	Review
United States	Samantha Nelson IGN	"[3rd Season Review]: season 3 of 'Slow Horses' offers the same mix of wry humor, intrigue, action, and tight ensemble storytelling as its predecessors."	POS
United States	Adam Lock Ready Steady Cut	"[3rd Season Review]: 'Slow Horses' continues its unstoppable run with a third outing that is just as good as the previous installments (...) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Stephen Rodrick Variety	"[3rd Season Review]: Brilliantly dysfunctional and grim"	POS
United Kingdom	James Dyer Empire	"[3rd Season Review]: With Jackson Lamb, Gary Oldman may have landed the role of his career (...) Slow Horses is the best thriller no-one’s watching, and it’s only getting better. (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Rebecca Nicholson The Guardian	"[3rd Season Review]: Kristin Scott Thomas is absolutely top-notch (...) As ever, this grubby spy thriller is an utter pleasure. It’s big, bold, daft (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Alan Sepinwall Rolling Stone	"[3rd Season Review]: it is its finest yet"	POS
United States	David Cote AV Club	"[3rd Season Review]: Tight, twisty, and bloody as hell (...) Three seasons in, 'Slow Horses' is still tremendous fun."	POS
United Kingdom	Joel Golby The Guardian	"[3rd Season Review]: From its cast of acting royalty – Kristin Scott Thomas! – to the excellent dialogue, this drama just whizzes by. It’s a hugely fun, totally charming watch that gets everything right"	POS
United States	Stephen Rodrick Variety	"[3rd Season Review]: it is brilliantly dysfunctional and grim"	POS
United States	Brian Tallerico The Playlist	"[3rd Season Review]: We need more Jackson Lambs. And as many seasons of 'Slow Horses' as we can get"	POS
United Kingdom	Nick Howells London Evening Standard	"[3rd Season Review]: The previous seasons set the bar high, but this is probably the best yet (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Anita Singh Telegraph	"[3rd Season Review]: It's clever, it's fun, it features a marvellously greasy Gary Oldman swearing at his MI5 colleagues – and it deserves a much bigger audience (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Nancy Durrant London Evening Standard	"[2nd Season Review]: The joy of 'Slow Horses' isn’t that the show is doing anything new, particularly; it’s that it’s doing something fun and juicy in a hugely entertaining way (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Adam Lock Ready Steady Cut	"[2nd Season Review]: a hilarious, action-packed espionage thriller (...) Unfortunately, it never equals or surpasses the first season (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Brian Tallerico The Playlist	"[2nd Season Review]: it maintains the spirit of the first while upping the intensity, which allows star Gary Oldman even more of a chance to shine"	POS
United States	Greg Wheeler The Review Geek	"[2nd Season Review]: Slow Horses is an enjoyable and solid follow-up, one that’s well worth checking out if you were a fan of season 1 (...) Rating: ★★★★★★★ (out of 10)"	POS
Canada	Alex Maidy JoBlo	"[2nd Season Review]: Better than ever, 'Slow Horses' continues to make a case as one of the most intriguing takes on spies in a very long time."	POS
United Kingdom	James Dyer Empire	"[2nd Season Review]: This generous second helping confirms the series' status as one of this year's TV high-points (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Jack Seale The Guardian	"[2nd Season Review]: Every scene in this series has a finesse of quality or invention. Full of lovely comedy and espionage antics, it gives stars like Kristin Scott Thomas plenty to relish (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	John Anderson The Wall Street Journal	"[2nd Season Review]: The season has a determinedly cinematic quality that elevates it beyond most spy series, as does the first-rate writing... It straddles genres deftly, perhaps creating its own in the process"	POS
United Kingdom	Hugo Rifkind The Times	"[2nd Season Review]: Like the books, it manages immediately to feel like something you know intimately already, even if you've never seen it before"	POS
Canada	Peter Martin Screen Anarchy	"[2nd Season Review]: Combining [Gary Oldman's] fiery performance with a story that is tuned to a higher pitch of activity makes the series entirely engaging"	POS
United States	Kaitlin Thomas Paste Magazine	"[2nd Season Review]: It's a shame the show might continue to be undervalued when it's proven itself to be a wholly enjoyable and more than capable spy series"	POS
United Kingdom	Anita Singh Telegraph	"[2nd Season Review]: The highly entertaining spy drama returns, with its cast of veterans knocking spots off the young pretenders (...) Little touches give the show a fresh feel (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Nina Metz Chicago Tribune	"[2nd Season Review]: It's funny and feels smart even when it's not, with a focus on small and specific stories over the outsized global bombast that tends to dominate espionage stories at the moment (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Abby Cavenaugh Collider	"[2nd Season Review]: If you're looking for a spy/espionage drama with lots of dark humor and intrigue, look no further than 'Slow Horses'. It really is an absolute thrill ride and a joy to watch"	POS
Ireland	Pat Stacey Irish Independent	"[2nd Season Review]: 'Slow Horses' was already my favourite series of 2022. Now it's my favourite series twice (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Katie Rosseinsky London Evening Standard	"[1st Season Review]: A starry cast excels in the impressive adaptation of Mick Herron’s misfit spy saga. Espionage has never seemed less glamorous - but Apple TV+’s spy thriller is gripping stuff (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Anita Singh Telegraph	"[1st Season Review]: It’s solidly entertaining, well-acted and well-plotted. Little details from the books (...) are accurately represented (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Steve Greene IndieWire	"[1st Season Review]: As an adaptation of Mick Herron’s sizable 'Slough House' series, 'Slow Horses' has the mixture of knife-twisting griminess and familiar escalating beats of a bestseller."	POS
United States	Valerie Ettenhofer SlashFilm	"[1st Season Review]: 'Slow Horses' has a decent enough storyline, but by tying it so closely to a character who's a dud on screen, its bottom-of-the-barrel agents premise can only go so far."	NEU
United States	Alison Foreman AV Club	"[1st Season Review]: [The] first season is chock full of characters, lines, and moments that will work brilliantly for fans of spy thrillers"	POS
Canada	Peter Martin Screen Anarchy	"[1st Season Review]: A good combination of clever twists and unexpected turns, executed expertly by the actors, makes 'Slow Horses' fly"	POS
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"[1st Season Review]: One of the best spy shows in years, a smart, witty, cleverly plotted piece"	POS

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