Blog Post 2: Culture in Media - Slow Horses
I started watching Slow Horses in 2023 when season three of the show was released. Since then I have fallen in love with the show and when the final episode for the fifth season came out on October 29, 2025 it was safe to say that I was watching it. The show is a spy thriller with plenty of mystery, suspense and drama to go along with it and one of the top performing shows on Apple TV+. Season 5 Episode 6 was titled “Scars” and wrapped up the season as the character Claude Whelan (James Callis), First Desk of MI5 panics for answers after MI5 has been shut down by terrorists. The terrorists demand 100 million in reparations for their country, Libya—although it’s important to note that they are not working for Libya. If they don’t get the money, they threaten to attack a place of worship. Having no other choice, Diana Taverner (Kristin Scott Thomas), MI5’s Second Desk transfers 100 million to the terrorists. In the meantime the Slow Horses, MI5’s “undesirables” track down t...