And just like that, Slow Horses, the highly popular Apple TV British spy series has concluded for another season. Ahead of the finale, Slow Horses has been renewed for a seventh and eighth series, based on the novels Bad Actors (series 7) and Clown Town (series 8).
Based on the Slough House novels by Mick Herron, the sixth season was based on the novels Joe Country and Slough House. Like the previous five seasons, the sixth season has received critical acclaim, with praise for the series' direction, performances, script, tonal balance, and consistency.
The role of Jackson Lamb, portrayed by Gary Oldman, continues to be one of the best on TV. Or should I say streaming.
Alongside Oldman, Jack Lowden, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jonathan Pryce, Hugo Weaving, Saskia Reeves, Rosalind Eleazar, Christopher Chung, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Joanna Scanlan, Tom Brooke, Lucian Msamati, and Olivia Cooke also star.
With the preview at the end of the episode, it appears season seven is in the bag. Do you think we will get it early, or like the past few seasons, get it next September?
Either way, season sixes finale was explosive, read on if you are up to date since Wednesday.
Taverner shifts blame for the Russian attack onto Peter Judd and Cantor.
River is released and informs Lamb of the situation around Sid and Coe, while Lamb sends him to the others. Lamb convinces Taverner on a plan to hand Cantor over to Russian Intelligence instead of Sid. Lamb contacts Cantor's Russian handler Natasha at her daughter's birthday party and blackmails her into selling the idea that Cantor is the orchestrator of the attack on Russian soil.
River joins the others at Taverner's holiday house just as they are assaulted by Harkness and his two henchmen. During the assault, the group gets separated. Shirley stays with Reece and teaches him how to use a harpoon gun. Flyte kills one of the henchmen trying to kill Reece. Harkness kills her, but not before she shoots him in the leg. Roddy finds Flyte and attacks the other henchman, distracting him long enough for Reece to kill him with the harpoon gun.
Back at the house, the wounded Jane arrives and shoots Louisa in the stomach, getting into a fight with River. Before handing Cantor over, Lamb tells him to call off Harkness and asks Taverner to send back-up to the Slow Horses. Harkness returns to the house and kills Jane, but River disarms him. Though he gets away, everyone else is rescued.
Sometime later, the Slow Horses toast in Coe's honour, with the recovering Louisa joining them. River receives a message from Anna about someone being in his grandfather's house. River goes there to find Sid. As she showers, he tries to open wine for a dinner before falling over poisoned.
Cliffhanger alert!
As I said, bring on season seven. It's hard to believe this series is already six seasons in!
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