The highly anticipated fifth season of Slow Horses begins on Apple TV+ today (Wednesday 24 September). With the first two episodes dropping, the fifth season has already got off to a great start, landing a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Season five sees Gary Oldman's Jackson Lamb back with his gang of MI5 outcasts including Jack Lowden as River Cartwright and Kristin Scott Thomas as Diana Taverner.
Also returning for the latest series is The Matrix star Hugo Weaving who is reprising his role as the villain Frank Harkness after his character was introduced in season four.
Based on Mick Herron's Slough House series of novels, the plot for season five will be lifted from the London Rules book.
Ahead of its full release, the fifth season has already earned a 100% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with critics agreeing that it's as good as ever, if not better.
CBR writes that season five "continues to test the limits of audience expectations, and comes one step closer to becoming truly iconic".
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The Daily Telegraph wrote: "Slow Horses is unusual: a long-running show that hasn’t had a drop-off in quality. There is a supreme sense of confidence about the way it is put together."
Metro added in its review: "I can’t think of a thing I didn’t like about it. The cast is brilliant, the story’s engaging, and the dialogue sharper than ever."
"If Slow Horses Season 5 proves anything, it's that even an installment of this show that favors a back-to-basics approach is still definitely worth tuning in for," penned Collider.
Season five will see the debut of Taskmaster and Ted Lasso star Nick Mohammed as Zahar Jaffrey, the mayor of London.
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Recently speaking with RadioTimes, Mohammed teased an "explosive" fifth season filled with shocking twists that will conclude with an "intense" ending.
"I think everyone will appreciate that Slow Horses ends in quite an explosive way and there are lots of twists and turns," he said.
"And this season definitely does do that as well. There's a pretty intense action sequence at the end."
Slow Horses seasons 1-4 are streaming on Apple TV+. The first two episodes of season 5 arrive on Wednesday 24 September.
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