Slow Horses Wiki

AppleTV+'s hit espionage series

After a botched and publicly embarrassing training mission, British MI5 officer River Cartwright is exiled to Slough House, an administrative purgatory for service rejects. Known as "Slow Horses", Cartwright and his colleagues must endure dull, paper pushing tasks and their miserable boss, Jackson Lamb, who expects them to quit out of boredom and frustration. Life in Slough House is defined by drudgery, until the Slow Horses become entangled in a dangerous gambit by "The Park".

Season 1 of the Apple TV+ series *Slow Horses* which premiered on April 1, 2022 with two episodes (Failure's Contagious & Work Drinks). It is also subtitled as *Slow Horses* after the first book of the same name written by Mick Herron. It finished airing on April 29, 2022 with the season finale Follies. It starred Academy Award winner Gary Oldman, along with Jack Lowden and Kristin Scott Thomas rounding out the main cast. Recurring guest stars this season include: Saskia Reeves, Olivia Cooke, Rosalind Eleazar, Christopher Chung, Steven Waddington, Dustin Demri-Burns and Paul Higgins respectively. All episodes were directed by James Hawes.

Season 2, which is subtitled as *Dead Lions*(after the second novel of the same name by Herron) premiered on December 2, 2022 with two episodes (Last Stop & From Upshott with Love). Oldman, Lowden and Scott Thomas returned for the new season. Whereas from the supporting cast, Reeves, Eleazar, Chung, Waddington, Demri-Burns and Higgins were joined by Aimee-Ffion Edwards & Kadiff Kirwan. Other characters appearing in more than one season include: Jonathan Pryce as David Cartwright,Chris Reilly as Nick Duffy, Samuel West as Peter Judd, Sophie Okonedo as Ingrid Tearney and Freddie Fox as James “Spider” Webb. All episodes were directed by Jeremy Lovering.

In June 2022, ahead of the second season premiere, the series was renewed for Season 3 and Season 4, which will be based on the next novels in the series, *Real Tigers* and *Spook Street*.

Season 3, which is subtitled *Real Tigers*(after the third novel of the same name by Herron) premiered on November 29, 2023 with two episodes (Strange Games & Hard Lessons). All episodes were directed by Saul Metzstein

Meet the Characters
Jackson Lamb
River Cartwright
Diana Taverner
Dr. Sidonie “Sid” Baker
Roddy Ho
Spider Webb

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