Slow Horses

  • Director(s)

    James Hawes

  • Production Year

    2022

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Cast

    Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden, Kristin Scott Thomas

TV Show

Slow Horses

Slow Horses

SLOW HORSES is a British spy thriller series; in this episode, Jackson and River make plans to turn the tables on Taverner while Hassan's kidnappers grow
more volatile.…

SLOW HORSES is a British spy thriller series; in this episode, Jackson and River make plans to turn the tables on Taverner while Hassan's kidnappers grow more volatile.

  • Director(s)

    James Hawes

  • Production Year

    2022

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Cast

    Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden, Kristin Scott Thomas

strong language, infrequent suicide references
Classified Date:
31/03/2022
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Everyman Cinema
language
There is use of strong language ('f**k') and milder terms ('shit', 'tit', 'piss', 'crap', 'Jesus', 'Christ', 'hell', 'God').
suicide and self-harm
There are infrequent suicide references and brief bloody images during a scene in which a character is found dead in a bathtub.
additional issues
Moderate threat includes secret agents chasing a suspect carrying a bomb through a busy airport and failing to subdue him. There is also a scene in which a young man is abducted and held captive by terrorist group threatening to broadcast his beheading. There are discriminatory references to immigrants during the speech of a conservative politician. It is implied a character was abducted because of their religious beliefs. There is a repeated moment of moderate violence in which a character is knocked to the ground with force during a chase. Other issues include infrequent moderate sex references, and mild references to drugs and alcoholism.
Classified Date:
10/06/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Classified Date:
10/06/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Classified Date:
10/06/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
strong language, threat, racism
Classified Date:
23/05/2023
Use:
VOD/Streaming
threat and horror
A young Muslim man is tied up and gagged in a car, then threatened with beheading by three men who are members of a far-right British Nationalist group.
language
There is frequent strong language ('f**k') and milder terms which include 'cock', 'balls', 'shit', 'piss', 'bastard', 'screw' 'Jesus' and 'Christ'.
discrimination
Members of a far-right British nationalist group display racist attitudes towards a Muslim man stating that 'his people' killed 'our people and raped our women'. Racism is clearly condemned within the series as a whole.
additional issues
There is repeated sight of blood spatter over the faces of three men, but they do not have injuries. A man is hit in the head with a fire extinguisher and another is punched in his stomach. There are chases on foot and moments of gun threat.
strong language, threat, violence
Classified Date:
23/05/2023
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
There are bloody shootings. A man is punched repeatedly and shoved against a cabinet. There is sight of blood over three men's faces as a result of an earlier act of violence.
threat and horror
A young Muslim man is tied up and gagged in a car, then threatened with beheading by aggressive kidnappers who belong to a far-right British nationalist group. There is a tense scene in which it is unclear if a group of men intend to kill an innocent woman and her child.
language
There is frequent strong language ('f**k') and milder terms which include 'twat', 'pussy', 'bitch', 'balls', 'shit', 'piss', 'dickhead', 'Jesus' and 'hell'. The term 'motherf**ker' is also implied.
additional issues
There are references to racism and racist behaviour which is condemned by the work. There are brief, undetailed comic references to in-breeding and online pornography. There is gun threat and a building is threatened with a car bomb attack.
Classified Date:
10/06/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
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strong language, sex references
Classified Date:
24/05/2023
Use:
VOD/Streaming
language
Use of strong language ('f**k') is accompanied by moderate and more mild terms (for example, 'wanking', 'cock', 'dickheard', 'twat', 'bollocks', 'shit', 'Jesus' and 'Christ').
sex
A scene is set in a sex shop and there is clear sight of pornographic magazines, posters and films as well as sex toys including a penis shaped vibrator. A character jokingly remarks that a man may be 'wanking in a morgue somewhere'.
additional issues
There is a flashback to a man being tortured by having alcohol forcibly poured down his throat and references to someone being injected with a drug which killed him. A man dies of what appears to be a heart attack. A woman admits to punching a senior colleague who made a pass at her.
strong language
Classified Date:
24/05/2023
Use:
VOD/Streaming
language
There is strong language (’f**k’) and milder terms which include ‘prick’, ‘cock’, ‘dick’, ‘balls’, 'bollocks', ‘shit’, ‘arsehole’, ‘Jesus’ and 'Christ'.
additional issues
There are mild sex references and we see a couple in their underwear on a bed after having sex off-screen. There is brief comic verbal reference to strip clubs. A man trying to swallow a piece of paper is grabbed by the head and has his nose pinched to make him spit it up. A man is pushed to a wall and held at gunpoint. A character chases a car through fast-moving, dangerous city traffic on a bicycle.
strong language
Classified Date:
24/05/2023
Use:
VOD/Streaming
language
There is strong language ('f**k') and milder terms which include 'shit', 'piss', 'arse', 'God', 'Jesus' and 'Christ'.
additional issues
We briefly see the bloody face of a dead man who has apparently been killed in a car accident. There are comic verbal sex references and fleeting mention of online pornography. A man is seen preparing to ride a bicycle while drunk. A man grabs a woman and pulls her to a seated position as he questions her. There is brief, undetailed reference to alcoholism.
strong language, bloody images, violence
Classified Date:
10/06/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
A man is choked and then run over by a car, which is accompanied by bloody detail.
language
There is use of strong language ('f**k'), accompanied by other milder terms ('bollocks', 'arse', 'bloody', 'shit' and 'fricking').
injury detail
Scenes contain bodies covered in and surrounded by blood.
additional issues
There are undetailed verbal references to drug and human trafficking.
strong language, violence
Classified Date:
10/06/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
Scenes of strong violence include shootings resulting in significant bloodshed, followed by characters with bloodied clothing and injuries.
language
There is strong language ('f**k'), accompanied by other milder terms ('twat', 'shit', 'bullshit', 'balls', 'Jesus', 'Christ' and 'hell'). There is also use of the middle finger gesture.
additional issues
There are verbal references to a man taking his own life. Sex references include comic mention of sexting and 'kinky' sex. Scenes of threat involve crowds dispersing following the news of a terrorist attack.
Classified Date:
10/06/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
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Classified Date:
10/06/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Classified Date:
10/06/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Classified Date:
10/06/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Classified Date:
10/06/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Classified Date:
10/06/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Classified Date:
10/06/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
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Classified Date:
03/09/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Classified Date:
10/09/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Classified Date:
17/09/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Classified Date:
24/09/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Classified Date:
01/10/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Classified Date:
08/10/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
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  • Classified date

    23/05/2023

  • Distributor

    Apple

  • Language

    English