Apple TV+ continues its quiet, unflashy record of producing absolutely excellent content that nobody really talks about. If you know, you know. Next up for them is the fourth season of the highly acclaimed espionage series, part thriller, part dark comedy, Slow Horses.
The series will adapt Mick Herron’s fourth Slough House novel titled Spook Street.
Slow Horses tells the story of Slough House, an administrative purgatory for MI5 service rejects who have bungled their job but cannot be sacked as they know too much. Those consigned there are known as “slow horses” – a pun on “Slough House”. They are expected to endure dull, paper-pushing tasks, along with occasional mental abuse from their miserable boss, Jackson Lamb, who expects them to quit out of boredom or frustration.
Life in Slough House is defined by drudgery. Yet the Slow Horses continually become embroiled in many high-profile plots against Britain, frequently by accident.
It is known for Gary Oldman’s award-winning turn as the deeply damaged Lamb, and its willingness to kill major characters at the drop of a hat, leaving you completely unsure as to who might be safe and who is doomed.
Kristin Scott Thomas, Jack Lowden, Saskia Reeves, Rosalind Eleazar, Christopher Chung, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Kadiff Kirwan, and Jonathan Pryce all return. New joiners are Hugo Weaving, Joanna Scanlan, Ruth Bradley, Tom Brooke, and James Callis.
Adam Randall (I See You) directs the fourth season, in which a terrorist bombing in a shopping center kicks off the mystery to be unraveled, while River Cartwright has to deal with his retired spymaster grandfather starting to mentally lose it and beginning to suspect everyone in his life has been sent by the Service to watch him.
The show returns on September 4th with two episodes on premiere day, then one new episode weekly.
Apple TV+ has already renewed Slow Horses for a fifth season, based on the book London Rules.