Apple TV’s Biggest James Bond Rival Officially Hits Massive Streaming Streak

Apple TV may not have the same overall subscriber numbers as other streaming platforms like Netflix or Prime Video, but where the service lacks in base it makes up for in quality of shows. Apple TV has become widely known and celebrated for its work in the sci-fi genre in recent years, especially with shows like Severance and Pluribus.

However, the streamer has popular hits in other genres too, like Ted Lasso for the heartfelt comedy and The Morning Show for the prestige drama. Both shows have been around for years, and while The Morning Show is confirmed to return next year for one final season, the fate of Ted Lasso has still yet to be decided. There is another show on Apple that’s not only been renewed for one more season, but it even has two new seasons already in the works.

We’re talking, of course, about Slow Horses, the Apple TV spy thriller starring Gary Oldman and Jack Lowden. Slow Horses has been in the news even more so than usual lately due to the swirling rumors that star Jack Lowden has been cast as the next James Bond. This has not been officially confirmed at the time of writing in early November, but he is among the names reportedly being considered to take over the role of 007 from Daniel Craig.

The sixth season of Slow Horses recently aired on Apple TV back in September, and after going off the air on October 21, the show is still a force to be reckoned with on streaming. It’s performing so well across the entire year that it’s now been in the top 10 for over 300 days now.

• You don’t explain yourself, justify yourself, or soften yourself for anyone’s
  comfort. The confidence is structural, not performed.
• Connery’s Bond established everything, the tone, the danger, the cool, because Connery
  himself had the innate presence to make something that had never existed feel inevitable.
• You share that quality: the sense that you were always going to end up exactly here, doing
  exactly this.
• The name is Bond. In your case, it always was.

• Moore’s Bond is underrated precisely because the effortlessness looks easy, and
  effortlessness is the hardest thing to manufacture.
• You have the same quality: a lightness that disarms people before they realize how sharp you
  really are.
• The raised eyebrow, the perfectly timed quip, the refusal to be rattled. These are not
  affectations. They are a philosophy about how to move through a world that would like to
  take itself too seriously.
• You have never let it.

• Dalton’s Bond has genuine moral weight: he feels the cost of what he does, he has lines
  he won’t cross, and he is not interested in the version of himself that pretends
  otherwise.
• You share that intensity. You push harder than the situation technically requires, because
  you have a standard and you hold yourself to it.
• He was ahead of his time, the Bond the franchise wasn’t quite ready for yet, arriving
  exactly when he was meant to.
• You know what that feels like.

• Brosnan arrived at the role looking exactly like Bond was supposed to look, and he delivered
  on that expectation with a professionalism that made it seem effortless.
• You have the same quality: a smooth competence, a charm that operates like a precision
  instrument, and the ability to make even difficult things look like they weren’t.
• His four films revived the franchise after a six-year gap and made Bond a blockbuster
  property again. There is a reason for that.
• The reason is that some people simply fit their moment perfectly. You are one of those
  people.

• Lazenby’s single outing is, by many measures, one of the finest Bond films ever made,
  and he is not a small part of why.
• You share his quality of raw authenticity: less polished than the alternatives, more honest
  for it, capable of something real that technique alone can’t produce.
• He was underestimated, and then he wasn’t, and then history caught up with him.
• You are the kind of person history catches up with. Give it time.

• Craig’s Bond is the franchise’s most psychologically complete: a man doing a
  punishing job, carrying its costs imperfectly, capable of love and loss in ways that
  can’t be dismissed.
• You share that depth. You don’t hide behind the role or the charm or the suit. You let
  the work show what it really costs.
• He was controversial from the moment he was announced and definitive by the time he was
  finished. The skeptics became the believers.
• That arc, of being underestimated and then undeniable, is one you know intimately.

When Does ‘Slow Horses’ Season 7 Come Out?

Apple TV has yet to set a specific release date for Slow Horses Season 7, but it has been confirmed that it will premiere in 2027. Better yet, Slow Horses Season 8 has already been confirmed for 2028, so the show will be around for at least another two years, if not longer. Each season of Slow Horses is also only six episodes, so the show is a quick weekend binge, even with six seasons to watch. Olivia Cooke (House of the Dragon) has also starred in several episodes of Slow Horses across six seasons as Sid Baker.

Check out the first six seasons of Slow Horses on Apple TV, and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Seasons 7 and 8.

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