Slough House efficiency

Slough House is where sh-tty MI6 agents go to waste away as slow horses, under the management of Jackson Lamb, even though somehow they’re the department that seems to get the most action, and the irony of Slow Horses is that even though – with the exception of Jackson – all his joes are f-ckups, the show is one of the most efficient and reliable productions of the decade, especially on streaming.

Network series follow a strict schedule but shows that are on streaming services don’t necessarily have to deliver at the same time every year. And yet Slow Horses has consistently, over six seasons, not made us wait more than a year which, sure, is a long time. But it’s not two and a half years, at least, which is when season three of Severance will be released – and that’s optimistic! It might actually be 2028 before we get back to Lumon.

Season six of Slow Horses just wrapped a few weeks ago. Season seven, by the way, has already been filmed so for sure it’ll be out in the fall of 2027 and production on season eight is happening right now. SPOILER ALERT….

This is where we find Jack Lowden, seen filming in London, a scene involving him riding a bike… and falling off. Not sure if the falling off part is part of the script but, like, it would be SO River Cartwright to be on a bike and not stay on the bike.

Jack of course has been part of all the Bond speculation as he reportedly was invited to screentest recently. Some of the speculation that was happening around the time of the season six final episode had to do with River’s fate, like it was a clue that maybe Jack had booked the Bond role since it looked like River might not make it, at least that he might not make it to season seven, suggesting that Jack wouldn’t have the time to shoot the show and the Bond movie. But anyone who was rumouring it that way also told on themselves that they weren’t familiar with how Slow Horses works…

Again, it’s the f-cking efficiency. Again, season seven wrapped long ago. Like, OK, River still might not be in season seven but that’s less to do with Bond and more to do with the story which would have been set well in advance. Clearly they’re not worried about spoilers though because he’s out here on these streets making it very obvious that River is part of season eight. Which, btw, is true to the books.