Saddle up — Slow Horses is back! That's right folks, after a slobber-knocking Season 3, our return to Slough House and its dysfunctional band of MI5 spooks for another round of espionage, bickering, and weaponised flatulence is almost upon us. Yesterday, Apple TV+ announced that Season 4 of the unmissable spy series is set to make its two-episode global premiere on 4 September, with further episodes dropping weekly thereafter. And alongside that music to our ears, the streamer also gave us a feast for the eyes, revealing our first look at grouch-in-chief Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) and co in the series ahead. Check out the new shots from Slow Horses Season 4 below:
Set to adapt the fourth book in author Mick Herron's Slough House series, Spook Street, Slow Horses' latest series — directed by Adam Randall (Night Teeth) — will see Lamb and his team dealing with "a bombing that detonates personal secrets, rocking the already unstable foundations of Slough House," per the official logline. And as you can see from the images above, this series will see agent River Cartwright (Jack Lowden), office admin Catherine Standish (Saskia Reeves), traumatised ops agent (and sometime diamond thief) Louisa Guy (Rosalind Eleazar), maverick hacker Roddy Ho (Christopher Chung), Shirley Dander (Aimee-Ffion Edwards) and Marcus Longridge (Kadiff Kirwan) all back in action alongside Oldman's Lamb.
Further familiar faces seen in the new shots from Season 4 include Kristin Scott Thomas' Head of MI5 Diana Taverner and Jonathan Pryce as River's dementia-stricken grandfather, legendary spy David Cartwright (looking somewhat perplexed here, it must be said). And, excitingly, they're joined by a slew of show newcomers including Hugo Weaving, Joanna Scanlan, Ruth Bradley, Tom Brooke, and James Callis.
With its subversive blend of low-fi spy craft, high-stakes storytelling, and granularly detailed character work, Slow Horses has proven itself to be quite the, er, dark horse when it comes to the cream of streaming shows in this era of Peak TV. So well received has it been in fact that Seasons 3 and 4 were greenlit and shot back-to-back, and a forthcoming Season 5 — to be based on Herron's fifth Slough House novel London Rules — has already been confirmed. It seems we just can't get enough of these losers, misfits, and boozers... or quoting Mick Jagger's incredible title song, apparently!