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Patriot (2015)
8.2/10on IMDb
First aired
An intelligence officer needs an industrial-piping job to make his cover plausible, and the supposed administrative detail becomes an obstacle course of its own. The deadpan comedy understands the misery of being given a mission whose supporting arrangements barely work. Its practical mishaps and odd colleagues are a particularly good match for Slough House's battered professionals. The melancholy grows across two seasons, with the wider story left unfinished.
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Rubicon (2010)
7.9/10on IMDb
First aired
An intelligence analyst notices patterns that begin making his own workplace difficult to trust. Much of the suspense lives in reading, discussion and the uncertainty of deciding whether a detail matters. The office has its own peculiar rhythms, without a Jackson Lamb to turn impatience into entertainment. AMC cancelled the slow-moving 2010 drama after one season; choose it for the absorbing analytical work, accepting unresolved threads.
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The Game (2014)
7.7/10on IMDb
First aired
A small MI5 committee in 1972 London tries to interpret a Soviet defector's warning while its members bring competing loyalties into the room. Brian Cox's department head and Paul Ritter's prickly colleague give the institutional hierarchy real personality. The 2014 miniseries is more reserved than Slow Horses, with the pleasure coming from watching a team assemble an account it cannot safely take for granted.
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Berlin Station (2016)
7.6/10on IMDb
First aired
A new arrival at the CIA's Berlin office is tasked with tracing a leak, making colleagues both his working partners and possible subjects of suspicion. Richard Armitage, Michelle Forbes and Leland Orser give the bureaucracy different styles of self-protection. The action is more conventional than Slough House's improvisations. Its strongest connection is the sense that an organisation's internal relationships can decide what an operation becomes.
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Condor (2018)
7.7/10on IMDb
First aired
A young CIA analyst is forced out of a world of information and into immediate danger, without acquiring a field operative's instincts overnight. The chase format is faster and straighter than Slow Horses, but keeps the cost of an institution's decisions close to someone expected to trust it. Max Irons makes vulnerability a useful alternative to effortless action-hero competence.
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Black Doves (2024)
7.2/10on IMDb
First aired
A spy's complicated London life becomes even less manageable when an old friend is brought in to protect her. Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw give the pair's shorthand and mutual concern as much weight as the surrounding violence. The humour is sharper and the city glossier than Slough House, but the relationship has the same appeal of people who know each other's worst habits and still make a useful team.
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Spooks (2002)
8.3/10on IMDb
First aired
The British series, also known as MI-5 in the US, follows a counterterrorism team whose professional closeness never removes the consequences of a bad decision. Operations and recurring office relationships share the workload across a long run. It is more earnest and more conventionally heroic than Slow Horses. Start here if you want a substantial ensemble commitment with abrupt changes that the remaining colleagues have to absorb.
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Down Cemetery Road (2025)
7.0/10on IMDb
First aired
A woman investigating a disappearance hires a private detective whose manner does little to reassure the people around her. Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson carry this 2025 Mick Herron adaptation through an increasingly dangerous inquiry. The link to Slow Horses is most useful in the abrasive partnership and the suspicion of respectable explanations. Its outsider perspective gives the women a different route into institutional wrongdoing.
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The Bureau (2015)
8.7/10on IMDb
First aired
An officer returning to France has to resume life inside an intelligence service after years spent maintaining another identity. Training, reporting and carefully managed relationships make the organisation tangible before the stakes widen. The French drama is far less comic than Slow Horses. It is especially rewarding for viewers interested in the professional habits that let a team function, and the personal attachments those habits cannot reliably contain.
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The Sleepers (2019)
7.6/10on IMDb
First aired
A couple return to Czechoslovakia in 1989, then a disappearance turns an apparent homecoming into an encounter with competing intelligence interests. The six-part Czech drama gives a civilian's uncertainty space alongside the professionals' manoeuvring. It offers a colder view of institutional power than Slow Horses, with political change making apparently settled loyalties unstable. The focus is vulnerability and control rather than comic incompetence.
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