Watch the gripping first 20 mins of Apple TV+'s spy thriller 'Slow Horses'

The series stars Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jonathan Pryce, Jack Lowden, and Olivia Cooke.
By Rachel Thompson  on 
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Gary Oldman, Rosalind Eleazar and Dustin Demri-Burns in “Slow Horses"
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We love a good spy thriller. Especially a show about Britain's MI5.

Well, you're in for a treat. The first two episodes of Apple TV+'s Slow Horses are available to stream now, and to mark its launch, the streaming service released the first 20 minutes of episode 1 on YouTube.

Starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jonathan Pryce, Jack Lowden, and Olivia Cooke, the darkly funny spy drama follows a chaotic team of disgraced intelligence agents who've been shifted to the service's dumping ground, known as Slough House, for their sins. Oldman plays Jackson Lamb, the chain-smoking, straight-talking boss of the disgraced agents.

The series was adapted for television by Veep screenwriter Will Smith and directed by James Hawes.

The clip from episode 1 shows us how River Cartwright (Lowden) is ousted from MI5 for colossally messing up an operation. It's an edge-of-your seat moment that sadly turns into a career-ending error for the agent, securing his spot in Slough House.

To find out what comes next, you'll have to keep watching.

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Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Based in the UK, Rachel writes about sex, relationships, and online culture. She has been a sex and dating writer for a decade and she is the author of Rough (Penguin Random House, 2021). She is currently working on her second non-fiction book.


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