Netflix’s 10/10 ‘Slow Horses’ Replacement Officially Reclaims Streaming Crown



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It’s always tricky when a show takes longer than usual between seasons, especially in the streaming era. Audiences are accustomed to their favorite shows returning like clockwork every year, and that’s one of the reasons why Prime Video’s Reacher has been such a massive hit. The action series aired its fourth season this year and delivered record numbers. On the other hand, Netflix’s The Gentlemen witnessed a 45% drop in opening-week viewership, presumably because of the two-year gap between seasons. Prime Video’s The Terminal List, which spent four years off the air, failed to crack the standard 1 billion minutes watched milestone upon its return.

The jury’s still out on Netflix’s acclaimed spy thriller series, which premiered to 10.8 million views in 2024 and reclaimed the streamer’s viewership crown upon its recent return. According to Netflix, the show clocked 3.8 million views in the first three days of release, but its actual opening-week performance will only become clear when the streamer shares its latest viewership report in the coming days. The show has the potential to become Netflix’s answer to Slow Horses, which has emerged as a platform-defining hit for Apple TV over the past four years.

A key to Slow Horses‘ success is the strict production schedules that Apple TV has enforced. Two seasons are produced simultaneously, which is how the show has aired six seasons since 2022. Like Slow Horses, the Netflix series also consists of six episodes per season. However, it took two years for the show to return. The positive reviews that the show has received will only go so far in attracting audiences, but catching up on six episodes isn’t a huge time commitment for new viewers.

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Collider QuizWhich James Bond
Are You?
8 Questions · 6 ActorsSix actors. Six completely different visions of the same man: dangerous, charming, complicated, and almost certainly wearing a very good suit. Only one of them shares your particular way of moving through the world. Eight questions will figure out which Bond you really are.The Six

Connery

Moore

Dalton

Brosnan

Lazenby

Craig

The Name Has Been DeterminedYour Bond Is

Six actors. One role. Your answers point to the Bond who shares your presence, your
method, and your particular way of carrying the weight of being the most dangerous person in the room.

1962-1971Sean ConneryDr. No to Diamonds Are ForeverYou were always going to end up here.

You are the original, and you carry that fact without needing to announce it. There is an authority in the way you occupy a room that others spend careers trying to replicate.Why This Is You

  • 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.

The OriginalStructural CoolAuthority

1973-1985Roger MooreLive and Let Die to A View to a KillThe lightness is the technique.

You understand something that more serious people miss: that wit is its own form of intelligence, and that making people laugh is not a retreat from danger but a way of mastering it.Why This Is You

  • 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.

The QuipUnrattledEffortless

1987-1989Timothy DaltonThe Living Daylights, Licence to KillYou took it seriously when nobody asked you to.

You took the role seriously when everyone wanted you to coast, and that refusal to take the easy version of anything is the most defining thing about you.Why This Is You

  • 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.

Moral WeightNo CoastingAhead Of It

1995-2002Pierce BrosnanGoldenEye to Die Another DaySome people simply fit their moment.

You are the complete package, and you know it, which is part of what makes you so effective and occasionally so infuriating to the people around you.Why This Is You

  • 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.

The PackagePrecision CharmRevival

1969George LazenbyOn Her Majesty’s Secret ServiceHistory tends to catch up with people like you.

You stepped into something enormous with less preparation than anyone around you thought was sufficient, and you delivered something genuine anyway, which is the more impressive achievement.Why This Is You

  • 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.

One Film OnlyRawUnderrated

2006-2021Daniel CraigCasino Royale to No Time to DieUnderestimated, then undeniable.

You stripped everything back and found what was underneath, and what was underneath was harder, more honest, and more human than anyone expected.Why This Is You

  • 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.

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Netflix’s Spy Thriller Has Upped Its Game

We’re talking, of course, about Black Doves. Starring Keira Knightley, Ben Whishaw, and Sarah Lancashire, the show reclaimed the number-one spot on Netflix worldwide upon its return on November 5. According to FlixPatrol, it’s currently trailing the breakout hit The Body and the true-crime title Taken: Natalee Holloway.

Also starring Sam Riley, Ambika Mod, and Babou Ceesay, the new season of Black Doves has received critical acclaim. It’s now sitting at a “Certified Fresh” 96% score on Rotten Tomatoes, up from Season 1’s 92%. The aggregator website’s consensus reads, “Black Doves takes flight once more in this fun-fueled second season where Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw reign in the proceedings with verifiably pristine performances.” Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.


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December 5, 2024

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Netflix

Directors

Lisa Gunning


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