Popular Apple TV+ UK spy drama “Slow Horses” returns for a fifth season on Wednesday, September 24, and this season looks to be a banger! (Not the sausage, the other meaning.)
The series, starring the always excellent Gary Oldman, has proven to be popular with both critics and audiences alike. Weekly releases will continue through October 29.
The series follows an MI5 unit where disgraced or failed agents are assigned, led by Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman). It also stars Jack Lowden, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sophie Okenedo, Jonathan Pryce, Saskia Reeves, Rosalind Eleazar, and Christopher Chung.
As it has every season, “Slow Horses” season five will be a six-episode run, which is based on a novel in Mick Herron‘s Slough House book series.
Apple has released the trailer for season five, and the season looks to be action-packed:
In season five of “Slow Horses,” everyone is suspicious when resident tech nerd Roddy Ho has a glamorous new girlfriend, but when a series of increasingly bizarre events occur across the city, it falls to the Slow Horses to work out how everything is connected. After all, Lamb knows that in the world of espionage, the London Rules — cover your back — always apply.
If you haven’t watched previous seasons (and if you haven’t what is wrong with you?), it’s time to binge the first four seasons so you know which spy is spying on who (whom?). Don’t worry, as previously mentioned, each season consists of six episodes, so you can easily binge all four seasons in less than a 24-hour period. (Sleep is overrated and so is work.)
Slow Horses seasons 1-4 are available for viewing on Apple TV+.