Apple TV+ has greenlit two more seasons of the spy drama Slow Horses ahead of the season 2 premiere. The acclaimed series stars Acadamy Award-winner Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb, the gruff ringleader of a dysfunctional group of British intelligence operatives who can't quite cut the mustard at MI5, and are dumped in Lamb's department known as Slough House. The series was created by Veep writer Will Smith, and is based on the Slough House series of novels by Mick Herron. The show takes a dryly humorous, often tense, but more grounded approach to spycraft, more for fans of John Le Carré than James Bond.
Apple has announced Slow Horses seasons 3 and 4, based on the next two novels in the series. Despite season 2 having not yet aired, some breadcrumbs have been laid out about the upcoming seasons' plots. According to Apple, season 3 will be about foiling a rogue agent when one of the Slough House operatives is kidnapped, and season 4 "opens with a bombing that detonates personal secrets, rocking the already unstable foundations of Slough House."
Although the six-episode first season only debuted in April of this year, a second season has already been filmed and will be released later this year. Season 2 centers on the disreputable spies weeding out sleeper agents embedded in British society. The show also stars Kristin Scott Thomas as Diana Taverner, the cool and collected MI5 deputy director with plenty of dirt on Lamb. Joining her are Jack Lowden, Olivia Cooke, Saskia Reeves, Sophie Okonedo, and Jonathan Pryce. There are 8 books and 2 novellas in the Slough House series, so the screw-ups of Slow Horses could engross audiences for many seasons to come.
Source: Apple