Slow Horses is one of the rarest and finest examples of scripted television: A procedural based on an airport novel series that cranks out its annual seasons like clockwork and boasts a crackerjack cast. And on September 16, it returns to Apple TV, right on time.<\/p>\n
The show works so well because it sticks to formula. No matter how many times Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman), River Cartwright (maybe future Bond<\/a>, Jack Lowden), and their fellow denizens of Slough House save England\u2014nay, the world!<\/a>\u2014by the beginning of each season, their miserable status quo at the bottom rung of MI5 is reinstated. No matter the extent of their valor (or indescribable luck), Lamb\u2019s Slow Horses remain unappreciated, crabby, and, to our great delight, busy.<\/p>\n Yet, as we see in this crisp, snappy trailer set to \u201cThis Fire\u201d by Franz Ferdinand, that status quo has been disrupted by the systematic thinning out of Lamb\u2019s division. These deaths could be a coincidence, as Diana Taverner (Kristin Scott Thomas) offers during a testy debrief with Lamb in her garden, or part of a growing conspiracy, as the trailer\u2019s accompanying synopsis suggests: \u201cSeason six sees the Slow Horses on the run as Diana Taverner embroils them all in a fatally high-stakes game of retaliation and revenge.\u201d Well, that\u2019s pretty cut-and-dry, now isn\u2019t it?\u00a0<\/p>\n Among the growing threats to Slough House is lethal duo Jane (The Witcher\u2018s MyAnna Buring) and Jim (Andor\u2018s Kyle Soller), who target both active and retired members and contribute to one of the darker moments in Mick Herron\u2019s seventh novel in the series, \u201cSlough House.\u201d (This season also adapts his sixth book, \u201cJoe Country.\u201d) This crisis forces the team to \u201cgo dark\u201d\u2014despite Roddy Ho\u2019s (Christopher Chung) achingly Millennial compulsion to use his phone\u2014and pulls Louisa Guy (Rosalind Eleazar) back into the fold, despite her earnest protests. As for River, he faces not one but two trailer-busting face-offs: One with Frank Harkness (Hugo Weaving) and the other with Sidonie \u201cSid\u201d Baker, played by returning Olivia Cooke, who we\u2019re guessing is happy for the reprieve from all that dragon insanity she\u2019s been enduring on a competing network.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Slow Horses is one of the rarest and finest examples of scripted television: A procedural based on an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-588499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}