Slow Horses season six isn’t the same, so here’s why the show’s creator Will Smith quit

Slow Horses is back for a sixth season… but the show’s creator isn’t. Will Smith (the English comedian, not *that* Will Smith) was the showrunner, executive producer and a lead writer for the first five seasons. Here’s why Will Smith left Slow Horses ahead of season six (and the show may feel a bit different as a result).

You’ve probably noticed that new episodes of Slow Horses seem to come out, like, all the time. The Apple TV show only began in April 2022, but it’s already on season six. Stranger Things could never! This intense pace led to Will Smith’s departure.

“It wasn’t a decision. It was a practical acceptance of reality,” he told The Wrap.

Will Smith continued: “As the deadlines for season six approached, it was clear I was never going to be able to get the scripts done, because it’s kind of a juggling act, working on this show. When we were doing the writers’ room for season five, it was at the same time we were editing season three and [shooting] season four.

 

 

 

 

 

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“As a writer, I’m not in the edit all the time. The director runs the edit, but I do watch cuts. I come in and I’m present for a fair bit of it, and similarly, I try to be on set as much as I can, partly because I love watching it … it just hit a point where it was like, ‘I’m not going to be able to do [season six],’ and they couldn’t move the schedule around.

“It was with great sadness on both sides, but I sadly couldn’t keep going.”

Will Smith added that the other writers working on Slow Horses are “an amazing team”, and that he felt the show “will continue to fly and keep getting better and better”. Fingers crossed!

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