While Waiting For Slow Horses Season 5, Watch Netflix’s New 100% RT British Spy Thriller

Published Dec 6, 2024

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The Apple TV+ series Slow Horses season 5, but, in the meantime, Netflix has just released the perfect follow-up series.

Black Doves is certainly among the best. The new spy thriller centers on an agent whose lover is killed, prompting her to wonder whether she is the next target. Slow Horses and Black Doves each create a suspenseful and gripping drama for audiences while maintaining enough difference to keep them guessing, making the two a great pairing for fans of spy thrillers.

Netflix's Black Doves Is Another Acclaimed British Spy Thriller Like Slow Horses

Black Doves Has A Great Cast And Some Exciting Twists

Fans of Slow Horses would certainly enjoy Black Doves because both shows make use of some of the most exciting and suspenseful aspects of spy thrillers while remaining unique in their plot and characters. Just as Slow Horses features a wealth of well-known actors, Black Doves' cast includes familiar faces like Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw, and their performances have already been met with critical acclaim. Likewise, with pieces of Black Doves' plot borrowing from genres such as drama and romance, Black Doves adds new layers to the typical spy show.

The characters of both shows may be flawed in their own ways, but audiences want to root for them and find out what could happen next.

At first glance, Slow Horses is quite an unusual spy series because it focuses on MI5 agents who have been deemed unworthy in some aspect. Likewise, Keira Knightley's character Helen is an unusual spy because of her outward focus on family life and seeming reluctance to be involved in the show's secretive events. However, these complexities are precisely what make the agents in Slow Horses and Black Doves great. The characters of both shows may be flawed in their own ways, but audiences want to root for them and find out what could happen next.

Why Black Doves & Slow Horses Both Have Such Fantastic Reviews

Reviewers Have Praised The Writing And Performances

While spy thrillers often do well with audiences for their action and entertainment value, Black Doves and Slow Horses stand out at the top with incredible reviews by both critics and audiences alike. Black Doves currently holds a 100% critical approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and Slow Horses is right there with it at a 98% Rotten Tomatoes approval rating. Multiple elements of each show help them stand out in the crowd of similar spy series, but reviews have cited the writing and performances as strong points.

Keira Knightley standing on a bridge with the wind in her hair as she looks over her should in Black Doves

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In particular, critics have commended the pace and plot of Black Doves as thoroughly entertaining for the entirety of its runtime. Critics and audiences have similarly lauded the plot and writing of Slow Horses as being equally gripping. For both Black Doves and Slow Horses, audiences have been impressed by the shows' abilities to create characters and stories that are both exciting and, at times, emotional, and that always have the ability to keep fans asking what will happen next.

Sources: Rotten Tomatoes & Rotten Tomatoes