If you didn’t know that season 7 of Slow Horses had already wrapped production, you’d be forgiven for thinking season 6 was the last hurrah for Jackson Lamb (Sir Gary Oldman) and his Slow Horses. It feels like an ovation in the theatre of Slough House as characters...
In the second episode of Furious (now available on Disney+), a petite woman in her early twenties (Lola Petticrew) wearing a striking wig seduces a much older man (Rob Delaney) before using a needle to administer a powerful sedative that renders him unable to move....
In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Ted Lasso star and co-creator Jason Sudeikis says an “epiphany” convinced him to make the decision to revive his show, after the third season had been declared “the end”. It’s not hard to imagine that the epiphany may have...
“Shut it down! Shut it all down!” When this line is shouted less than 15 minutes into the first episode of Widow’s Bay, you know exactly the influences shaping Apple’s comedy horror. It’s the same cry the mayor in Jaws fails to heed, and the damning demand of...
In the greyest of grey Januaries, it is a gold-star-level move by Apple to bring us the third season of sunshine-in-a-bottle comedy drama Shrinking. The Jason Segel/Harrison Ford vehicle, focusing on grieving therapist Jimmy Laird (Segel) and his surrounding support...
TV in 2025 has been a mixed bag. Mostly that's because a lot of our favourite shows or shows we'd been anticipating didn't live up to our expectations. Notably, the second season of The Last Of Us, I'm still not sure what happened there. The third season of The White...
Vince Gilligan, showrunner and mastermind behind the new Apple TV series Pluribus, has spent a long time in Albuquerque. He set his masterpiece Breaking Bad in the New Mexico city and used its barren yet beautiful landscape to accentuate every nail-biting moment of...
All too quickly our time with Jasckon Lamb (Sir Gary Oldman) and his team of success-impaired agents comes to a close for another year, with the finale of season 5. For some, this season has underwhelmed. The scale has felt smaller than other seasons, despite the fact...
After some of Slow Horses best episodes, season 5 slows down for episode 5 “Circus”. It’s essentially an epilogue and prologue - dissecting the chaos of last week’s melee that led to the accidental death of Dennis Gimball (Christopher Villiers), and setting up the...
There is perhaps no drama on TV right now which more narratively echoes the idea of a Rube Goldberg machine - a contraption which relies on a chain of events to complete an action - than Slow Horses. All the pieces and players must be in the exact position at the...
If someone hadn’t watched this week’s episode of Slow Horses, it would be hard to convince them that an episode whose pivotal movements include exploding penguins and a silent but deadly fart, could be one of the spy thriller’s best - but here we are. ...
There is nothing better in the world of Slow Horses than when Head Horse Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) has his proteges around him, is 12 steps ahead of them, and is - as the young folk say - reading them to filth. While the opening episode of season 5 had the Horses...
As the nights draw in, and the end of the year looms, there are particular British certainties - the heating will go on, Strictly will dominate Saturday evenings, and Slow Horses will return to raise the bar for TV with aplomb. It’s supremely comforting to know that...
Apple TV+ have unveiled a first look at the highly anticipated new thriller “Down Cemetery Road,” starring and executive produced by Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe Award and Emmy Award winner Emma Thompson (“Sense and Sensibility”), and also starring Golden Globe...
New Apple TV drama Smoke is based on the hit podcast Firebug. About a serial arsonist lighting up southern California in the 1980s. And what could be worse than one uncatchable arsonist? How about two? In that classic TV trope, arson investigator Dave...
Today, Apple TV+ announced it will expand its award-winning original series slate with a new dramedy starring and executive produced by Emmy, SAG and Golden Globe Award winner Jennifer Aniston (“The Morning Show”), and inspired by “I’m Glad My Mom Died,” Jennette...
Today, Apple TV+ announced it has landed a riveting new series starring and executive produced by Tony Award winner and Emmy and Golden Globe Award nominee Liev Schreiber (“The Perfect Couple,” “Ray Donovan”) and Emmy Award nominee Zazie Beetz (“Atlanta,” “Deadpool...
Today, Apple TV+ announced it has landed “Wild Things,” a new limited series that will star BAFTA Award winner and Academy Award nominee Jude Law (“The Young Pope,” “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew,” upcoming “Black Rabbit”) and Tony Award winner and Academy Award and Emmy...
Hailing from “Hijack” creator George Kay and produced by New Pictures and Observatory Pictures, the series also stars Thandiwe Newton, Fionn Whitehead, Gina McKee, Hazel Doupe, Elliott Heffernan and Stephen Dillane Today, Apple TV+ announced the riveting new...
Sharpe created, wrote and will direct the series, being produced by 'Black Doves' production company Sister. Will Sharpe and Ayo Edebiri are set to unite in the new rom-com series “Prodigies” for Apple TV+ .Described in the synopsis as an “unusual take” on a classic...
New series from A24 is adapted from award-winning author Holly Gramazio's New York Times bestselling book oday, Apple TV+ announced the new eight-episode comedic drama “The Husbands,” starring SAG and BAFTA Award winner Juno Temple (“Ted Lasso,” “Fargo,” “Atonement”),...
Dawn and Tyler join Matt to review the week's notable TV. First, BBC One's gangster drama, This City City is Ours starring Sean Bean. Next, Netflix's lavish comedy murder mystery from Shondaland, The Residence. Then, Apple lampoons Hollywood in Seth Rogen's comedic...
It seems almost impossible that Severance creator Dan Erikson could live up to last season’s dramatic cliffhanger finale, and the standard set by the ground-breaking, outstanding episodes that have made up the bulk of this second season. Yet somehow, they have, and as...
Matt and Dawn are joined by Gary Redrup, the original Custard TV podcaster, to review three shows available this week. They begin with the truly staggering Netflix drama series Adolescence, which might be the most discussed and praised British drama in a very long...