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For the second time in 2024, there is good news on the streaming wars front, as those succeeding services start pulling away from those that will not. As I recently noted in our Gangs of London Season 3 post, this is a frustrating time for TV fans when series that
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Apple TV+ continues to ride the success of Slow Horses, which has been commissioned to trot out to a six-episode Season 6 less than a week after the Season 4 finale. (Season 5 was greenlit in January 2024, a few days after the conclusion of Season 3.) Based on the
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Season 4's finale, “Hello Goodbye,” would be more aptly titled “The Many Dads of River Cartwright,” as no fewer than three Slow Horses older men are positioned as father figures to River (Jack Lowden) in the Season 4 finale. This paternal trifecta is the key to understanding what
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The penultimate episode of any thriller series is always a great place to review the journey thus far. “Grave Danger,” the fifth episode of Slow Horses’ fourth season, mirrors the second-to-last episodes of the past seasons – the final chunks of crucial exposition are handed over, the stakes are dialed up
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After some mild complaints about the breathless, propulsive pacing of Slow Horses, “Returns” proves an apt title for a decisive episode in a season that felt unmoored as it crossed the halfway mark. The fourth episode did not give us all the answers we anticipated, but it gave us enough
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For a spy thriller, Slow Horses is paced strangely. As a TV thriller, you can’t fault how it moves: each of Mick Harron’s books is split into the UK-standard six sub-hour episodes (often under 45 minutes), and they clip through plot turns and character beats like nobody’s
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It's no secret in the industry that Apple TV+ is the most lavish spender of the technology companies who jumped into the streaming service game, even more than Amazon. After an unfortunate launch in 2019, where the service only offered a paltry four series, all of which felt
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Just when Apple TV+ seemed to have gotten into a groove, the little streaming service that no one watches other than critics decided to shake things up. The streaming service has a small group of reliable hits among its offerings (hits being an extremely relative term), with Slow Horses being
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For the loyal viewers who’ve watched three seasons of Slow Horses secretly pining for all our characters to get embroiled in a life-or-death gun battle, Season 3’s finale, “Footprints,” certainly delivers. For everyone else who’s enjoyed the back alley, rough-around-the-edges spy work, and volatile character dynamics, “Footprints”
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It’s Siege Week on Slow Horses. “Cleaning Up” dials up the pressure on Slough House, who have once again found themselves unanimously at the center of a clandestine MI5 coverup, leaving only one episode left for MI5’s most productive screw-ups to do their classic maneuver of a) stopping
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Is Slow Horses’ third season its best outing yet? So far, it seems likely. Last week, we had half the season under our belt and felt confident that, thanks to the high frequency of twists, pursuits, and conspiracies, Season 3 was the finest Slough House adventure thus far. With Episode
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After last week’s mile-a-minute thriller antics, it’s fitting for Slow Horses to focus on recalibrating itself as we near the story’s midpoint. With River in the custody of the humiliated and furious Dogs, Lamb takes more of a center stage, taking an investigatory role as he checks