Dit scherpzinnige spionagedrama volgt een bijeengeraapt team MI5-agenten - en hun onaangename baas, de beruchte Jackson Lamb - die schijn en bedrog proberen te doorzien om Engeland tegen duistere figuren te beschermen.
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- stevencaceres24526 juni 2025You will absolutely fall in love with Gary Oldman again and again. His character is flawed, hostile and brilliant. They’re not afraid to kill off characters. And episode after episode. It is just a fun ride. We look forward to watching these. A great spy thriller series about the underdogs
- Kraine Opasen20 juni 2025“A sharp, savage, and darkly hilarious take on the spy game.” Forget sleek suits and shaken martinis — Slow Horses throws you into the grimy back alleys of British intelligence, where washed-up spies, bad coffee, and worse tempers collide. And it's glorious. Gary Oldman is phenomenal — a walking disaster of sarcasm, brilliance, and flatulence, leading MI5’s most dysfunctional rejects. But make no mistake: behind the humor and self-loathing lies serious bite. The show balances its razor-sharp wit with tense shootouts, corpses piling up, and good old Cold War paranoia — including KGB ghosts, Russian schemes, and political backstabbing. It’s clever. It’s brutal. It’s weirdly heartwarming. And the writing? Wickedly British. Every insult lands like a punch, every twist surprises, and every episode leaves you grinning — or gasping. Spy thrillers rarely get this fun and this smart. A hidden gem that deserves all the praise.
- Ellis11 november 2025A couple of years ago, I quit watching Season 1, a few episodes in, because I didn't like the characters. I gave it another chance and pushed through the oddness of the show. I am glad I did. It's actually a really good show and you learn to love the characters for all the reasons you disliked them at first. Gary Oldman is perfect for this show and is hilarious with his wit and lack of care in what people think. One thing that drives me crazy throughout all episodes is MI5 apparently doesn't issue guns to their agents and everybody else has them. Seems counterproductive. Then again, I wouldn't issue these characters guns either. Also, they play the theme song WAY too much! It becomes irritating to hear it over and over even during the espisodes. It's definitely a binge-worthy show and you are eager for the next season.
- Callum29 oktober 2025⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (out of 5) Slow Horses – The other side of Her Majesty’s Secret Service: where spies go to rot, not to shine. “Slow Horses” is the anti–James Bond — a sardonic, razor-sharp glimpse into the forgotten backrooms of espionage, where the glamour has long since been scraped off the walls. These are not tuxedoed heroes sipping martinis; they’re the bureaucratic ghosts of MI5, filing reports and cleaning up the messes so Bond can keep his tux spotless. Led by Gary Oldman’s gloriously dishevelled Jackson Lamb, the team at Slough House represents everything the Bond franchise politely ignores — failure, fatigue, and the unvarnished drudgery of real intelligence work. It’s the council-worker version of MI5: the ones down in the sewers making sure the toilets flush before the spies at the ball make their speeches. The writing is brilliantly bleak, laced with British wit and weary humour that turns mediocrity into art. It’s a show where loyalty is begrudging, victory is messy, and survival is the only real success. Compared to Bond’s world of Aston Martins and high-stakes seduction, Slow Horses is all nicotine-stained windows and bad coffee — but it’s infinitely more human for it. Gritty, funny, and utterly compelling, this is espionage stripped of illusion, where even heroes smell faintly of despair and takeaway curry.
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Slow Horses has 5 seasons.
Slow Horses has 30 episodes.
The key characters in Slow Horses are Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman), River Cartwright (Jack Lowden), Diana Taverner (Kristin Scott Thomas).
Slow Horses was directed by Saul Metzstein, James Hawes, Jeremy Lovering, Adam Randall.
Slow Horses was produced by Jane Robertson, Anna O'Malley.
Dit scherpzinnige spionagedrama volgt een bijeengeraapt team MI5-agenten - en hun onaangename baas, de beruchte Jackson Lamb - die schijn en bedrog proberen te doorzien om Engeland tegen duistere figuren te beschermen.
Slow Horses is rated 16.
Slow Horses is a Drama, Misdaad, Komedie show.
Slow Horses has an audience rating of 8.7 out of 10.
Slow Horses episodes are 50 m long.
There is no information yet from the studio on if there will be another season.