Slow Horses series 4 review: Swaggering and truly distinctive in the way that very few shows are
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Slow Horses series 4 review: Swaggering and truly distinctive in the way that very few shows are

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Since it debuted in 2022, Apple TV+’s Slow Horses has produced three excellent seasons. With this level of output, you’d be forgiven for assuming the quality would vary wildly – like a restaurant pushing out half-baked soufflés for the braying dinner crowd – and yet Slow Horses has become that most wondrous of things: a truly reliable televisual crowd-pleaser. And it plays into one of Slow Horses’ great strengths: its depiction of office politics. With each season of ‘Slow Horses’, Oldman appears caked in another layer of grime “I’ve dealt with men like Lamb before,” Flyte tells her boss.

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Missing Slow Horses? 5 spy shows and movies to watch next, recommended by ChatGPT
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Missing Slow Horses? 5 spy shows and movies to watch next, recommended by ChatGPT

Hindustan Times  

Called one of Apple TV's best shows, Slow Horses season four ended last month but nothing has filled that void still. With no sidelined spies on high-stakes mission to keep us on the edge of our seats, fans are looking for equally great spy shows blended with dark humour, to scratch that very particular itch. Slow Horses season four wrapped …

Is ‘Slow Horses’ the best show you aren’t watching?
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Is ‘Slow Horses’ the best show you aren’t watching?

LA Times  

Welcome to Screen Gab, the newsletter for everyone who has moved at a glacial pace jumping on the “Slow Horses” bandwagon.. ‘Freaks and Geeks’: 25 years later, its brief but legendary status endures: “Freaks and Geeks” may have been short-lived, but for our television critic, who chronicled the series, cast and creators over the years, it remains a beloved work …

Slow Horses Season 4: Finally, a show for some of Britain’s best actors.
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Slow Horses Season 4: Finally, a show for some of Britain’s best actors.

Slate  

The central gag of Slough House, the organization, is that the worst spies in London have been thrown together in one building and punished with terrible, useless jobs. “The next sound you hear will be me expressing confidence,” he lobs at Emma Flyte, the MI5’s attractive new head of security in the Season 4 premiere, right before Lamb rips a …

Slow Horses Season 4: When and where to watch new episodes of Gary Oldman-led series
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Slow Horses Season 4: When and where to watch new episodes of Gary Oldman-led series

Hindustan Times  

The fourth season of Slow Horses is finally here! More about Slow Horses Season 4 premiere Gary Oldman in a still from Slow Horses. {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} Slow Horses will premiere one episode per week and run from September 4 to October 9. {{^usCountry}} {{/usCountry}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} In an interview with Indiewire, Gary said that he enjoys …

Slow Horses Season 4: The Apple TV+ show proves itself fresh, time and time again.
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Slow Horses Season 4: The Apple TV+ show proves itself fresh, time and time again.

Slate  

Family is not a word that comes up in conversation between the so-called slow horses. Apple TV+’s tatterdemalion group of MI5 rejects cooperate at the office and in the field to save Britain time and time again, but the buck stops once they leave the dingy walls of Slough House. Other limited drama series often tout an acclaimed guest star …

Column: Viewers and Emmy voters are finally catching up: Everyone needs to see ‘Slow Horses’
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Column: Viewers and Emmy voters are finally catching up: Everyone needs to see ‘Slow Horses’

LA Times  

The third season of “Slow Horses” finally got nine well-deserved Emmy nominations this summer, including for drama series and drama actor. Lamb’s equally misfit team are known in the Park as the “slow horses,” and Lamb rouses himself only to remind them that they are there to do nothing. While his grandfather advises patience, River chafes against Lamb’s enforced apathy …

Gary Oldman's Slow Horses season 4 gets a stellar 100% Rotten Tomatoes score; rave early reviews
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Gary Oldman's Slow Horses season 4 gets a stellar 100% Rotten Tomatoes score; rave early reviews

Hindustan Times  

Slow Horses Season 4 leads Rotten Tomatoes rating While scoring the show on the portal, Rotten Tomatoes also shared the critics consensus which read, “The stakes get more more personal than ever before in Slow Horses' superb fourth season, proving that this spy series is saddled up for the long haul with no signs of fatigue.” Few days ago, Pachinko …

Gary Oldman is gloriously grotesque in Slow Horses – the show should win the top TV Bafta
7 months, 1 week ago

Gary Oldman is gloriously grotesque in Slow Horses – the show should win the top TV Bafta

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy It’s great to not give …

Apple TV's Slow Horses gets a rare 5th season. What makes the Gary Oldman spy series so bingeable?
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Apple TV's Slow Horses gets a rare 5th season. What makes the Gary Oldman spy series so bingeable?

Hindustan Times  

After a high-octane season 3 that came to a smashing end in the last week of December, Apple recently announced a fifth season pickup for the hit show based on Mick Herron’s book series of the same name. About Slow Horses Slow Horses centers on a group of disgraced MI5 agents who have been relegated to doing inconsequential and menial …

Gary Oldman’s Apple series ‘Slow Horses’ green lit for season five
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Gary Oldman’s Apple series ‘Slow Horses’ green lit for season five

The Hindu  

Oscar-winner Gary Oldman's espionage series Slow Horses has been renewed for a fifth season, streamer Apple TV+ has announced. The show follows a dysfunctional team of British intelligence agents who, for various career-ending reasons, have been put out to pasture in Slough House – earning them the nickname Slow Horses. The fifth season of the series will be adapted from …

Slow Horses Season 3: Apple TV+’s best spy thriller keeps getting better.
1 year ago

Slow Horses Season 3: Apple TV+’s best spy thriller keeps getting better.

Slate  

No one puts much stock in the so-called Slow Horses, which is perhaps why they’re always exceeding expectations. Based on the Slough House novels by Mick Herron, Apple TV+’s spy thriller returned for its third season last week. As every Slow Horses season comes to a close with another disillusioned reminder of the grimy indifference of power structures, it’s easy …

Why Gary Oldman longed to be on TV — and what happened when he got there
2 years, 7 months ago

Why Gary Oldman longed to be on TV — and what happened when he got there

LA Times  

Gary Oldman, left, and Jack Lowden star in the new Apple TV+ thriller series “Slow Horses.” As more film actors pivoted to TV, Gary Oldman watched in envy, waiting for his opportunity to leap to the small screen. That chance came with “Slow Horses,” an adaptation of Mick Herron’s 2010 spy novel, which has been in development with Apple TV+ …

Slow Horses review: Gary Oldman spy series is brilliant, grumpy and very British
2 years, 8 months ago

Slow Horses review: Gary Oldman spy series is brilliant, grumpy and very British

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The London of Disney Plus’ Marvel series Moon Knight …

Slow Horses review: Gary Oldman delivers yet another memorable performance in Apple TV's espionage drama
2 years, 8 months ago

Slow Horses review: Gary Oldman delivers yet another memorable performance in Apple TV's espionage drama

Firstpost  

By the time you have fallen for the plot and the world Slow Horses, you would have fallen for Gary Oldman as well. All of this seems to be perfect background for the character that Oldman plays in the Apple TV+ miniseries Slow Horses. The top dog in the dump is Gary Oldman’s Jackson Lamb - foul-mouthed legend of British …

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