Slow Horses

spronk

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i stopped after season 3 just got busy, binged through seasons 3 thru 6 the last few weeks. I enjoy the show, its far from perfect but its a bit of fun seeing a mix of shitty spies, weird (to us) UK politics, Lamb as a guy I totally get, and River as the guy I think most guys can empathize with - "i'm a skilled badass" (i'm a fuck up with moments of good). Writing/dialogue is really good, plots tend to be kinda all over the place.

This season had Cyril from Andor as an assassin, his 2 person team was great. I sorta liked most of the story through the season but I thought it kinda fell apart by the end. The billionaire guy really made no sense at all in any way, both what he wanted or how he was trying to get in (oligarchs control all that shit in league with powerful politicians). It felt really silly. The terminator assassin team was a bit unbelievable in how they kept finding moving people but whatever.

Coe and Flyt dead was gutting, I really liked both those characters a lot and hoped to see them work together in Slough House next season.

Its nice to be all caught up, I downloaded the first 3 books to my kindle so will start reading those on winter vacations. Haven't read a spy book in years, I think i'll start watching Lioness next as a more gritty spy show.

 
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Kajiimagi

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i stopped after season 3 just got busy, binged through seasons 3 thru 6 the last few weeks. I enjoy the show, its far from perfect but its a bit of fun seeing a mix of shitty spies, weird (to us) UK politics, Lamb as a guy I totally get, and River as the guy I think most guys can empathize with - "i'm a skilled badass" (i'm a fuck up with moments of good). Writing/dialogue is really good, plots tend to be kinda all over the place.

This season had Cyril from Andor as an assassin, his 2 person team was great. I sorta liked most of the story through the season but I thought it kinda fell apart by the end. The billionaire guy really made no sense at all in any way, both what he wanted or how he was trying to get in (oligarchs control all that shit in league with powerful politicians). It felt really silly. The terminator assassin team was a bit unbelievable in how they kept finding moving people but whatever.

Coe and Flyt dead was gutting, I really liked both those characters a lot and hoped to see them work together in Slough House next season.

Its nice to be all caught up, I downloaded the first 3 books to my kindle so will start reading those on winter vacations. Haven't read a spy book in years, I think i'll start watching Lioness next as a more gritty spy show.


Current season of Lioness was excellent. S1-2 were ok with S2 being all over the place, if it seems not your tea, skip to S3.
 
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Fight

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The finale this season was pretty terrible. Every moment of the assault on Taverner's beach home was epic levels of retarded.

Just about every moment had a rational brain saying, "Why would they do that? There is no way it goes down like that. Please, just do this... OMG just kill all these fuckin retards already."

Jackson Lamb and Gary Oldman are still the best part of the show and make it worth watching, but this last season felt like a real step down in quality.
 
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Djay

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Not reading the whole thread because I want to avoid Season 5 and beyond spoilers, but....was there some sort of writer switch between Season 4 and 5? I've been binging the show and the scripts for the first 2 episodes of Season 5 have been noticeably worse.
 

Falstaff

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I was OK with this season until the scene in the bathroom with Coe, where instead of just stabbing the fucking Russian he talked to him for 5 minutes and showed him exactly what he was going to do.
 
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Kajiimagi

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You guys be careful or you will rustle DickTrickle DickTrickle like I did. Yeah it was stupid and I found myself pulling for the bad guys (usually do anyhow) but the robo russians and the chick getting to the house to just be a throw away was retarded too.
 
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DickTrickle

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You guys be careful or you will rustle DickTrickle DickTrickle like I did. Yeah it was stupid and I found myself pulling for the bad guys (usually do anyhow) but the robo russians and the chick getting to the house to just be a throw away was retarded too.
Rustled? You're @ing me in reference to a negative rating on your post from three weeks ago.
 

Izo

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