Slow Horses (2022)★ 8.5/10

TV-MA · GB,US · 50 min · April 1, 2022 · 7 seasons

Drama
Thriller

Directed by: Adam Randall, Saul Metzstein, James Hawes, Jeremy Lovering, Robert McKillop

Written by: Morwenna Banks, Gaby Chiappe, Mark Denton, Ed Docx, Sophie Goodhart

Follows a team of British intelligence agents who serve as a dumping ground department of MI5 due to their career-ending mistakes.

Original title

Slow Horses

Storyline

Slough House is a dumping ground for members of the intelligence service who've screwed up: left a service file on a train, blown a surveillance, or become drunkenly unreliable. They're the service's poor relations. The slow horses and most bitter among them is River Cartwright, whose days are spent transcribing mobile-phone conversations. But when a young man is abducted, and his kidnappers threaten to behead him live on the Internet, River sees an opportunity to redeem himself. But is the victim who he first appears to be? And what's the kidnappers' connection with a disgraced journalist? As the clock ticks on the execution, River finds that everyone involved has their own agenda.

Rating

8.5 / 10 · 161,951

Companies

See-Saw Films, Apple TV+, Apple TV

Release dates