Apple TV+’s horses may be slow, but they sure are relentless. With plenty of the story left to tell — and having already secured a fifth season from Apple — the British Intelligence-based TV series is back for more deceit, double-crossing and potentially deadly duties. Season 4 of “Slow Horses” premieres its first two episodes Wednesday, Sept. 4, on Apple TV+.
Released and shared on X (formerly Twitter) as soon as last season ended, the Season 4 trailer for “Slow Horses” reveals everything from the threat of a serial bomber in London to a death on the Slough House team and the addition of at least one new character, named Frank Harkness.
Played by Hugo Weaving, who is best known for his roles as people’s terrorist V in “V for Vendetta” (2005), Agent Smith in the original Matrix trilogy (1999-2005) and Elrond in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-2003), Harkness is billed as “one of the most exciting developments in the Apple TV+ show” (per ScreenRant). Developed as a villainous force to be reckoned with, ScreenRant writer Sarah Little points to Weaving’s “Slow Horses” character as being poised to possibly “become the best villain the show has ever featured.”
Leading man Gary Oldman (“Darkest Hour,” 2017), however — unlike his character, Jackson Lamb — is simply delighted to be back at it again on television.
“Some of the best stuff you see is on your television screen,” Oldman shared during a TV news event, adding, “I love long-form.”
During the same event, as reported by IndieWire journalist Ben Travers in May of this year, Oldman revealed that he had always wished to “revisit a character” on an episodic basis. Luckily, “Slow Horses,” his first leading television role, has offered him the perfect chance to do exactly that. And given the recent renewal of a fifth season, it seems there will be plenty more of disgraced (at times disgraceful) MI5 Agent Lamb to go around. In fact, Oldman has said he would be happy to play Lamb until Apple TV+ exhausted the Slough House source material by author Mick Herron.
“If they’re [Apple TV+] happy to keep us on the air, then I’m very happy to ... do all eight books,” Oldman told the panel of entertainment reporters during the aforementioned press junket earlier this year. “And since we started, [Herron] has written another one, so who knows? Maybe it’ll be nine books, and I’ll be happy to play Jackson Lamb [in all of them.]”
Actor Jack Lowden (“Dunkirk,” 2017), on the other hand, praises the show for its unique and cutting sense of humour.
Lowden, who plays stunted MI5 up-and-comer River Cartwright in the series, said that while he had “never read the books,” the humour in the scripts was the “biggest draw” for him.
“It was so bizarre and so wonderful to think of what is essentially like a work-based thriller where everybody’s a little bit bad at what they do,” Lowden shared in an interview with Awards Radar reporter Steven Prusakowski.
Based on the Slough House book series by Herron, “Slow Horses” Season 4 also stars Saskia Reeves (“Luther”), Kristin Scott Thomas (“Gosford Park,” 2001), Christopher Chung (“Waterloo Road”), Rosalind Eleazar (“Howards End”), Sophie Okonedo (“The Wheel of Time”), Samuel West (“All Creatures Great and Small”), Aimee-Ffion Edwards (“Peaky Blinders”), Kadiff Kirwan (“Chewing Gum”), Ruth Bradley (“Ted Lasso”), Joanna Scanlan (“Getting On”), Tom Brooke (“Preacher”) and James Callis (“Battlestar Galactica”).
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