'Slow Horses' Season 5 Episodes 3-5 Breakdown With Alan Sepinwall
The Prestige TV Podcast
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4.2 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Happy fall movie season, James. |
| 0:01.8 | Horror is booming, but Oscar contenders are about to hit theaters. |
| 0:06.3 | Marty Supreme, Springsteen deliver me from nowhere, Wicked for Good, and Bougonia. |
| 0:10.3 | Don't forget blockbusters like Avatar, Fire and Ash, Predator Badlands, and Five Nights at Freddy's too. |
| 0:16.4 | Those will be huge. |
| 0:17.5 | We'll cover those movies every week this fall on our podcast, which is called Raiders |
| 0:23.0 | of the Lost Podcast. Raiders of the Lost Podcast. Watch or listen on Spotify. Hello, welcome back to the Prestige TV podcast feed. |
| 0:44.5 | I'm Joanna Robinson. |
| 0:45.3 | Rob Mahoney is still a bit ill, plus tied up in a lot of NBA preseason stuff. |
| 0:50.4 | But we have the great Alan Seppumol here to talk about slow horses. |
| 0:55.3 | Alan, how are you doing? |
| 0:56.4 | Hey, Joanna. What's going on? |
| 0:57.8 | Oh, my God. I'm so happy you're here. Our listeners have been clamoring for slow horses content. |
| 1:02.3 | They've been, we've had to skip the last couple weeks. And all I've heard from our listeners is |
| 1:07.4 | where is that Slow Horses podcast. So here we are to talk about episode five of Slow Horses, a show that you really like, right? And we're also going to do just |
| 1:16.6 | at the end a little bit of sort of the state of Apple TV. Sort of they've announced some |
| 1:21.5 | proposed changes, some proposed plans. And so Alan is here to lend his TV expertise to that. Alan Sephamwell, I'm assuming anyone who listens to a show called the Prestige TV podcast knows who Alan Seppinwall is. But if you don't, Alan Seppinwall is my favorite TV critic. Oh, my God. Has written books about the OC, the Sopranos, like, you know, you're working on a, can we say what book you're working on |
| 1:44.8 | right now? Or is that a secret? I'm working on two books right now. I've got a biography of Rod Serling, the creator of the Twilight Zone that's coming out next year. And then for the year after that, I'm doing a book about the Wire for the 25th anniversary. That's right. I forgot about the wire wine. I knew about the Twilightline. Yeah. Okay. So anyway, Alan knows everything about television. And a lot of what I know about television I learned from Alan's up and wall. So we have an absolute expert here to talk to us about slow horses. I could not be more thrilled. Rob will be back for the finale for episode six next week. And also just sort of so folks know what's coming next, we wrapped up task. We're wrapping up so horses, but pluribus, speaking of Apple TV, the new series that Ellen and I cannot talk about, even though I might have shared some Valens opinions about that show. Yeah, you put my thoughts out on the street there, Joanne. I did. It wasn't great of me. It wasn't very cool of me, but I did do that. |
| 2:34.9 | But we can't really, there's a lot of, can't really talk about that show very much. But it's awesome. And it premieres November 7th. And Rob and I will be covering that show. So that is sort of what is coming up on the feed. Spoiler warning, I guess, up through episode five of Slow Horses. |
| 2:51.1 | Though Alan, Alan has seen the finale, but Alan is like not going to talk about the finale. spoiler warning, I guess, up through episode five of Slow Horses. |
| 2:56.1 | Though Alan, Alan has seen the finale, but Alan is like not going to talk about the finale other than, you know. |
| 2:57.3 | I know it exists. |
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