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Slow Horses

Created by Will Smith · 2022–present ·

Answer Summary: Is Slow Horses worth watching?

Slow Horses (2022–present) earns a 86% Celluloid Score — Recommended. Recommended overall. Created by Will Smith; stream on Apple TV+.

Quick Verdict: What is the Celluloid Score for Slow Horses?

Calculated from four inputs (Celluloid editorial, Metascore, IMDb and TMDB fan rating). Audience sentiment is shown separately. See how we calculate scores.

86%
Celluloid Score Recommended

Four-input score + separate audience snapshot

98/100Editorial Rating
90%Audience · excluded
82Metascore
8.2IMDb /10
80%Fan Score
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Seasons
5 · 30 episodes
Network
Apple TV+
Streaming
Apple TV+
Cast
Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jack Lowden, Saskia Reeves
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English

Where to watch Slow Horses

Slow Horses is available on Apple TV+ — regional notes: Apple TV+ in the United States; Apple TV+ in the United Kingdom; Apple TV+ in Indonesia. Catalog platform tag: Apple TV+.

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Is Slow Horses worth watching?

Yes — Slow Horses earns a 86% Celluloid Score. Recommended, created by Will Smith and streaming on Apple TV+.

Celluloid Verdict

The best spy show on television — dry, propulsive and impeccably acted, with Gary Oldman's Jackson Lamb an all-time great creation of glorious squalor.

Celluloid editorial verdict

What is Slow Horses about?

MI5's rejects are exiled to Slough House under the flatulent, brilliant and magnificently unpleasant Jackson Lamb, where they are meant to rot — except the discarded spies keep stumbling into live operations the service would rather bury.

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Slow Horses Review: Spycraft for the Age of Managed Decline

Slow Horses reinvents the British spy drama from the bottom of the org chart — a service run on grudges and budget cuts, seen from the desk of its failures — with Gary Oldman's flatulent, brilliant Jackson Lamb as the great TV creation of the decade.

The best spy series on television — fast, funny, superbly acted and quietly furious about institutional Britain. Unmissable.

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Yes — Slow Horses scores 86% on Celluloid. The best spy show on television — dry, propulsive and impeccably acted, with Gary Oldman's Jackson Lamb an all-time great creation of glorious squalor. Stream on Apple TV+.