Paula Hammond - Features EditorThe growing army of Slow Horses addicts will be delighted to know that Apple TV+’s hugely acclaimed, BAFTA Award-winning espionage series is back for its fourth season this September.
Starring Academy Award winner Gary Oldman, and adapted from Spook Street, the fourth novel in the Mick Herron spy series, the first two episodes of season four premiere this week, with one new episode, weekly, every Wednesday until October 2nd.
The darkly humorous espionage drama that follows a dysfunctional team of British intelligence MI5 agents who have been consigned to a dumping ground department known as Slough House.
Oldman stars as Jackson Lamb, the brilliant but misanthropic leader of the horses, who end up in Slough House thanks to various career-ending mistakes. The returning ensemble cast also includes Kristin Scott Thomas, BAFTA Scotland Award-winner Jack Lowden, Saskia Reeves, Rosalind Eleazar, Christopher Chung, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Kadiff Kirwan and Academy Award-nominee Jonathan Pryce.
Fans can also catch up on the first three seasons of Slow Horses, which all hold a Certified Fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes. A fifth season is set to be adapted from the fifth novel, London Rules.
Brilliantly executed, with stand-out performances from a stand-out cast, Slow Horses is everything you’d ever want from a TV drama. Deftly balancing thrills and laughs, with plots that deliver all the way, this is a series that simply gets batter and better. And, let’s face it, in a business that churns out endless films and shows about beautiful people, there’s something monumentally satisfying about watching burnt out, cynical failures get one over on the the very people who consigned them to the scrap heap.
