TV Shows Like Slow Horses
If you like Slow Horses, here are 11 similar TV shows — each with its current AI renewal verdict, so you can see which are still going and which have been cancelled.
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Slow Horses works because it refuses to glamorize the job. Jackson Lamb is rude, slovenly, and frequently cruel, and the agents under him are there precisely because they failed somewhere else. The show is adapted from Mick Herron's novels and keeps Herron's dry, sardonic tone intact: the bureaucratic pettiness of MI5 matters as much as any terrorist plot, and the comedy is never separate from the menace. It is a spy show where the tradecraft feels grubby rather than elegant, and that is exactly the point.
The best shows like Slow Horses
1. Citadel
Like Slow Horses, Citadel is built around spies who have been discarded and manipulated by the very organizations that trained them. The premise, agents with wiped memories pulled back into a world they can no longer fully trust, has that same undercurrent of institutional betrayal that runs through Slough House. It is a bigger, flashier production than Slow Horses, but the paranoia about who is really running things should feel familiar.
Stream on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
On the Bubble48%
2. The Night Agent
The Night Agent shares Slow Horses' interest in conspiracies that reach inside the intelligence community itself, where the threat is not just external but comes from people who are supposed to be on the right side. It moves faster and is less interested in irony, but the web of political deception and the question of who to trust give it a similar texture to the early episodes of Slow Horses. Good for fans who want the paranoia dialed up and the wit dialed back a little.
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Likely Cancelled35%
3. The Capture
The Capture is probably the closest British companion to Slow Horses on this list, with its sharp focus on surveillance, state power, and the ease with which official narratives can be constructed or destroyed. It is set in contemporary London and is genuinely interested in how institutions protect themselves, which is territory Slow Horses knows well. The thriller plotting is tight, and it does not flinch from how unsettling that world actually is.
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Likely Renewed82%
4. The Night Manager
Adapted from a John le Carré novel, The Night Manager shares Slow Horses' literary DNA and its awareness that British intelligence is as much about politics and self-interest as it is about national security. The mission here is undercover rather than reactive, but the murk between the official line and the actual operation is exactly the kind of gap Slow Horses keeps returning to. It is more visually stylish than Slow Horses but equally skeptical about the people in charge.
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On the Bubble52%
5. The Old Man
The Old Man is about a former CIA operative whose past has finally caught up with him, which puts it in the same emotional territory as Slow Horses: old intelligence sins, buried operations, and the knowledge that the organization you served would rather you disappear. It is more of an action vehicle than a character study, but the idea that no one in this world ever fully retires or gets clean is something Slow Horses understands deeply.
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Cancelled0%
More on shows like Slow Horses
Fans of Slow Horses tend to want a few specific things: institutional politics alongside the action, characters who feel genuinely fallible, and a story told with some intelligence and wit. They are not looking for gadgets or car chases so much as procedure, pressure, and the occasional brutal surprise. They also tend to appreciate British restraint, the kind of storytelling that trusts the audience to keep up rather than spelling everything out.
The recommendations here cover a fair range of that territory, with varying degrees of match. The Night Manager and The Capture sit closest to the Slow Horses sensibility: The Night Manager is another novel adaptation with a strong British intelligence backdrop and a morally complicated mission at its center, while The Capture digs into surveillance, deception, and the question of who controls the official version of events. Both are genuinely interested in institutions and their failures. The Night Agent is a more straightforward thriller but has the political conspiracy thread that Slow Horses fans will recognize. Citadel and The Old Man lean harder into action and spectacle than Slow Horses ever does, but both deal with spies undone by their own histories and organizations that have turned on them, which is very much Lamb's world in its bones.
None of these shows quite replicate Herron's particular brand of mordant comedy, and a few of them are considerably glossier. But taken together they offer something for most of what makes Slow Horses worth watching: the institutional rot, the compromised loyalties, and the sense that the people tasked with keeping the world safe are usually only barely managing to keep themselves together.
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Frequently asked
- What is the most popular show like Slow Horses?
- Citadel is the most popular show similar to Slow Horses in the IsItRenewed catalogue.
- Are shows like Slow Horses still on the air?
- Of the 11 shows similar to Slow Horses listed here, 0 currently carry a renewed verdict — the rest are cancelled, ended, or awaiting a decision.
- How does IsItRenewed pick shows like Slow Horses?
- The recommendations come from TMDB's similar-titles data, and each is shown with its current AI renewal verdict so you know which are still going.