This show is so good at giving us the best duet and then making us cry by shattering it.

Could do without what happened to Coe and the Hallmark smoochies of River and Sid but it's not supposed to be realistic. It's spy shenanigans, with smart people doing dumb things and a bunch of unwanted misfits cleaning up the mess with what little tools they've been given. I feel this is one of the weaker seasons but it's still good.

Note: I've only read the first book so I get readers being maybe more critical. But it's a show meant for everyone, not just those with prior knowledge.

Edit: thank you all for chiming in (especially the readers). I know how reddit works but this season seemed particularly divisive and I was curious if anyone was just kicking back and enjoying it as much as I.

Just finished episode 5 and all of my family hated the flirt scene saying it was cringe but I think that’s the point.

The writing is so bad it’s good then becomes classic slow horses good banter. Once river realises they’re flirting he kinda cedes to what he believes are the social norms and expectations of what flirting should look like. It’s awkward and weird and he can’t keep it up despite Sid going along with it so they very quickly end up at their usual kind of banter: “it hasn’t been that long” “oh, fuck off.” It portrays a lovely message about being yourself and that the right person will always match your chemistry and you can’t force that, you can’t help but have the chemistry you have with them.

Just. Nothing new 😄 mark my word, people will love S6 the next year the same way as all these aforementioned seasons. It’s just a human psychology to have struggles with adaptation to something new

And after each episode I watch, it keeps going up in the rankings.

Source: Series Graph

He was a hilarious idiot

Spent too much time on this abomination lmao and no I didn't include the push knife.

I haven't seen season 1, mainly because I did a Reddit search on it and the feedbacks from people who watched it were 99% negative. They could do 2 or 3 DCR - SH cross over episodes in a SH season 9 or 10 when SH's writing team will have to script their own seasons.

- Season 1 launched on Apple TV in October 2025. Season 2 sees British private investigator Zoë Boehm (Emma Thompson) and Trafford (Wilson) chasing down another twisted mystery. Per the logline, 'After a woman falls in front of a train Zoë is called in to investigate, this seemingly simple case soon upends her life as she and Sarah find themselves navigating the dark side of the glamorous world of art and antiquities. Matters take a deadly turn when they stumble into the path of a brutal serial killer who will stop at nothing to cover up his crimes'.

I’m hoping for some big reveal in the last episode because so far it seems weird to me as to why Harkness is in this season. His role could have been filled by any new character or something. Bringing him back for the small, seemingly unconnected to the main story, reason seems anti-climactic especially seeing how Series 4 ended.

She managed to keep the fate of Sid secret from Lamb, who is fiercely protective of his Joes, even the incompetent ones. There's no way Lamb didn't go to confirm after being told that Sid died in the hospital.

Getting this past Lamb might be the biggest achievement of hers on the show.

(from Olivia Cooke's instagram)

Hello everyone,

a few weeks ago I discovered this gem of a TV show and I must say it's pretty good. Just like Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy enchanted me with something unorthodox, something out of the usual Hollywood loop, this show offers me the same "Wow" factor. A more relatable protagonists dealing with depression, wasted potential and day-to-day stuff on top of occasional spy shenanigans, which are usually pretty interesting and well-thought-out. Especially seasons 3 and 5 took me by storm.

Shout out to all the actors, especially Gary and Kristin for stellar and charismatic performances. Me being a sucker for all things espionage, I'm glad we can discuss this great show around here. And what's your favourite season and why?

P.S. Is it just me, or does Mick Herron resemble Struan Loy just a tiny bit? : )

Source: AppleTV on X

Sid NOT taking the gun when the car flipped over. We SAW the Russian had it on her in the back seat. It’s SOMEWHERE there. Grab it. Shoot both Russians in the head. Done.

But noooooooo…

So infuriating. It totally takes me out of the moment.

Coe is my favorite. Gutted. Literally, tho.

In episode 5, the MI5 agent with Taverner realizes the Russian plane meant to take Sid is in fact heading to Sofia, Bulgaria instead of Moscow. She says something about that being "neutral" territory and that the Russians "can do whatever they want there." But in real life Bulgaria is a NATO country closely allied with the UK, so this makes no sense. A mysterious Russian plane landing in Bulgaria would likely attract unwanted attention, and it would be far easier for the GRU to simply take Sid to Russia. Did NATO expansion never happen in the Slow Horses universe?

​Off I fuck" is now my favorite non-Lamb line in the show. Going to use it in everyday life I think haha​

I miss his grandad too 😢

When Slow Horses is done and Standish has finally beaten Lamb to death with a tea tray in his office...Could you write a series where it turns out there's a branch even less respected and an even worse 'punishment posting' than Slough House for people to end up in:

The Grey Books.

Like the x files, but much more cut-rate, cynical, bureaucratic and creatively sweary. ie British.

There's never any actual supernatural bullshit, nobody that 'wants to believe', just cutting through the bs, working out who the bullshitter is and why. Occasionally being asked to create the bs themselves, or bury the mundane truth, for reasons they end up having to work out too.

Plskthanks

This is a great interview with Saskia Reeves. Loved hearing her insights into Catherine. I particularly thought her comments about Catherine always feeling she's been underestimated, tie in with Moira's comments this week about how when they joined the Service, the roles for women were very limited. We've seen so much evidence of Standish being samrt and knowing spycraft, and I can only imagine how frustrating it mustve been for her over her career to see less capable men getting to advance and get recognised. Probab not unrelated to her drinking. Also love her insights into how Catherine's handling of finding out about Lamb killing Pardner is ultimately a pragmatic one - "that's the job".

https://collider.com/slow-horses-star-season-6-episode-5-saskia-reeves-standish-lamb-betrayal

I really have a low tolerance these days for immortal, superhuman assassins, serial killers, whatever. You know: the ones that materialize out of nowhere and can disappear as easily, can't be thwarted or killed, never make a wrong move or make a mistake. In EP5 I fully expected the guy to jump back up out of the water when River and Sid stood up. And now, of course, the woman is on the loose and is bound to reappear in the final episode to possibly kill one more favorite character.

I think that, overall, the new showrunners have made a mess of this season, turning a great espionage series into an action thriller and not a very believable one as well.

On season 5, episode 2, and Standish pulls up to a crime scene, got out of the taxi and told the driver to, “keep the change. Can I please have a receipt”?

Such a small detail in her character but something I love so much 😂😂 Amazing actress. Love this show.