Slow Horses , Apple TV+'s critically superlative series highlighting the exploits of a group of castoff MI5 agents, returns for a 5th season today. If you're saying to yourself, "Wait a minute, didn't they just wrap up Season 4?" Then that's probably the Netflix conditioning talking. For unlike most streaming series, Slow Horses has hewed to an almost traditional, network TV-style release schedule, with this most recent season dropping less than a year after the conclusion of the last.

Once this season ends, that will mark five full "series" (to use England-speak) since 2022. Meanwhile, the fifth season of Stranger Things (remember Stranger Things? ) is set to drop in November, *nine and a half years* after its debut.

Slow Horses' lightning fast production schedule not only sa

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