Apple TV has posted a new clip from Slow Horses built around River Cartwright getting hurt again. The streamer shared the clip from the spy series yesterday, with Jack Lowden's River bloodied and slumped inside a house while an armed intruder moves through the rooms. Check out the official post down below:
Slow Horses Season 6
The clip comes from Season 6, which premiered on Apple TV on September 16 and released its 6 episodes weekly through October 21. The season adapts Joe Country and Slough House, the 6th and 7th novels in Mick Herron's Slough House series. In the season, Diana Taverner, played by Kristin Scott Thomas and newly promoted to First Desk as Director General of MI5 at the end of Season 5, drags the Slow Horses into a high-stakes game of retaliation and revenge.
Gary Oldman leads the series as Jackson Lamb, the head of Slough House. Slough House is where MI5 sends agents who have seriously failed a task but not badly enough to be fired. They are known as the slow horses, and they are expected to put up with dull routine work and abuse from Lamb, but they keep getting pulled into cases that put Britain in danger. The Season 6 cast also includes Kristin Scott Thomas, Jack Lowden, Saskia Reeves, Christopher Chung, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Rosalind Eleazar, Joanna Scanlan, Samuel West, Ruth Bradley, Tom Brooke, Jonathan Pryce and Hugo Weaving, along with new cast member Lenny Rush.
The season was adapted for the screen by Gaby Chiappe and directed by Adam Randall. The series was first adapted for television by English comedian and writer Will Smith. Slow Horses is produced by See-Saw Films, and the series has won 3 Emmy Awards and 5 BAFTA TV Awards.
River Cartwright Keeps Getting Hurt
River started the show as an up-and-coming MI5 agent who was shunted to Slough House after a very public blunder during a training exercise. He is the grandson of David Cartwright, the former senior MI5 official played by Pryce, and Weaving plays Frank Harkness, a former CIA operative turned mercenary who is River's biological father. Lowden has now played River for 6 seasons.
Oldman was recently asked about Lowden and the next James Bond, as covered in Gary Oldman Says The New James Bond Has Already Been Picked; Is It His Slow Horses Co-Star Jack Lowden?.
What Comes Next For Slow Horses
Apple TV has already renewed the series beyond Season 6. Season 7 will be based on Bad Actors, and in September Apple shared the first details on Season 8. The 8th season will have 6 episodes and adapts Clown Town, the 9th novel in Herron's series.
According to Apple, Season 8 pits Jackson Lamb against Diana Taverner over a botched attempt to blackmail the Park, which ends up threatening to expose one of MI5's darkest secrets. Ben Vanstone is adapting the season, and Adam Randall returns to direct. Apple has not announced premiere dates for Season 7 or Season 8.
Where To Watch Slow Horses
All 6 seasons of Slow Horses are streaming on Apple TV. The series premiered on April 1, 2022, and the first 6 seasons have adapted the novels Slow Horses, Dead Lions, Real Tigers, Spook Street, London Rules, and the 2-book combination of Joe Country and Slough House. Check out the official trailer for Slow Horses Season 6 below:
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