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...
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...
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...
It's the final pod of 2024, looking back on the very best the TV had to offer. Luke and Dawn join Matt to count their personal Top 10's of the year whilst also counting down the favourites of the wider Custard TV team. Expect discussions on Slow Horses, Mr & Mrs...
Television in 2024 felt different. Things slowed down. You could feel broadcasters and streaming platforms straining to deliver the volume of shows we've been accustomed to and the heavy reliance on making shows out 'existing IP' made a lot of the output feel lazy,...
Apple TV+ announced a new, six-episode sixth season for the widely acclaimed, darkly comedic spy drama Slow Horses following its season four finale. The Emmy and BAFTA Award-winning series stars Academy Award winner Gary Oldman, who has been honoured with Golden...
I realised recently that there is only one returning drama on British television I look forward to. Unforgotten on ITV1 for those desperate to know which it was. It felt quite a depressing thought and quite the indictment on the state of terrestrial television which a...
AppleTV+ has revealed the return date for Slow Horses and it's sooner than you might think. Adapted from “Spook Street,” the fourth novel in the CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning Mick Herron spy series “Slough House,” season four of “Slow Horses” will premiere globally on...
Apple TV+ today shared a first look of the upcoming third season of its critically acclaimed espionage drama, Slow Horses,” starring Academy Award winner Gary Oldman. Adapted from “Real Tigers,” the third novel in the CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning Mick Herron spy...
When it came time to compile our Best of the Year piece two things struck me. The first was that wasn't one BIG show that resonated with people in the same way Normal People and I May Destroy You did in 2020 or It's a Sin and Mare of Easttown last year. The second was...