Slow Horses, Apple TV+’s brilliant darkly comic thriller is returning for a fourth season – and the trailer has just landed.
Opening back at the grimy Slough House offices, things are ticking along as usual: Gary Oldman’s Jackson Lamb, the boss of the dilapidated London spy outhouse, is being as rude as ever, (and still doesn’t seem to have had a shower); staff aren’t feeling too sunny as he calls them losers.
But then there’s a suicide bomb in a shopping centre, and the spooks at MI5’s Thames House, and Slough’s second-rate crew, are dragged back into the drama.
There are gangs, guns, explosions, chases, a car crash, new spies, new baddies – one of whom is the fabulous Hugo Weaving (of Matrix and Lord of the Rings fame) – and, right at the end of the two-minute clip, Jackson says one of his team has died.
The show, which returns on September 4, will launch with a double-episode premiere. After that, there’ll be a new episode every week, with the grand finale on October 2.
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Season four will continue the espionage story – based on the Slough House book series by Mick Herron – of a set of rather rubbish spies. They are too bad at their jobs to do proper intelligence work, but still too well-trained to completely bin off.
Previous mistakes they have made include leaving a highly-classified file on a train (Bond would never) and completely botching a drill to take down a terrorist threat.
These misfits are sent to Slough House, where they do menial tasks – trapped slogging through administrative work perhaps forever more.
That is, until, for a number of reasons – including the ambitions of one young spy River (Jack Lowden) and the arrogance of Slough House boss Jackson – the whole department is dragged back into proper spy business. Excited to be out of the career purgatory, Slough Houses’s spooks take the investigations seriously, but predictably often make a hash of things.
The result is a hilarious but also nail-biting British thriller that has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award and BAFTA and won several British Academy Television Craft awards.
For season four the returning cast includes Academy Award-nominee Kristin Scott Thomas, who plays deputy director general of MI5, Lowden, Rosalind Eleazar, who plays Slough House spy Louisa, and Academy Award-nominee Jonathan Pryce who plays River’s retired MI5 officer grandad.
“From the get go, this is nervy, visceral stuff but it still has heaps of fun letting all the players mercilessly banter each other into oblivion,” said the Standard, reviewing its third season. “The previous seasons set the bar high, but this is probably the best yet.”
See more first-look images below.
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