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 - lighton
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Re: Slow Horses
It would be helpful to edit your post to add which season or episode your spoiler is about.
 - WilliamDrakeMcGregor
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Season final. Storywise it was good, liked most of it.
But some characters were done bad at the end. ▼Spoiler Roddy Ho, after the interview he was just standing around...doing nothing. And in the last half of the episode he basically didn't exist. I expected him either stealing back the 100mil or confronting Tara in the holding cell...something but not nothing... meh. Shirley...apart from headshotting that one terrorist, also nothing. After they build up her PTSD and grief about Marcus so much in the end nothing...I said it before she deserved a win and that wasn't it...meh. Really disappointed how they ended the season for those two characters. On another note...what happened to Louisa? I expected her to show up at some point through all of this. Apart from that phone call she basically doesn't exist anymore in the show, not even the preview for next season showed her. Did the actress quit the show?
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What I like is they have only made a few dramatic changes from the books. In particulsr, the main Slough House characters are very much as written and the plots follow pretty much as Mick Herron wrote them. Catherine Standish is the other stand-out character for me and the actor Saskia Reeves deserves all the praise for her work.
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merc wrote:▼Spoiler those feet. should be an advisory for the sensitive to look away
I felt there was a foreshadowing in one of the earlier eps this season. Do you think (your spoiler) might be an indication of ▼Spoiler Lamb being sick? Remember the fuss Standish made about his smoking and how it will kill him someday?
- TeaAndApathy
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Parlicoot wrote:What I like is they have only made a few dramatic changes from the books. In particulsr, the main Slough House characters are very much as written and the plots follow pretty much as Mick Herron wrote them. Catherine Standish is the other stand-out character for me and the actor Saskia Reeves deserves all the praise for her work.
Thank you! I was going to ask about this!
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I f*****g HATE Roddy. He just laughed at everyone while shit was going down. And ▼Spoiler there was no blame and no consequences for his involvement. Even if he was ignorant he should have had some punishment . And as a woman...%^&**@@#%. And again. And once more. I like Coe. An enigma wrapped in a mystery swaddled in sweats.
- lighton
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WilliamDrakeMcGregor wrote:▼Spoiler On another note...what happened to Louisa? I expected her to show up at some point through all of this. Apart from that phone call she basically doesn't exist anymore in the show, not even the preview for next season showed her. Did the actress quit the show?
 I looked that up for you:
▼Spoiler "My understanding is that it was a scheduling conflict as she was cast as the lead for Netflix series Missing You. As for why she’d take that over Slow Horses, it’s the difference between being top billed for a Netflix show and being a co-star on Slow Horses, so I get it from her perspective. Apple also pays non-top stars poorly (as does Netflix for that matter) but she will be paid better as first billed than for Slow Horses. Plus material wise, she gets to be the Gary Oldman of her show. Since SH films back to back seasons, I’m guessing we don’t see her in S6 either. let’s hope she’s back for the next two after."
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TeaAndApathy wrote:Thank you! I was going to ask about this!
I’m a big fan of the books!
- WilliamDrakeMcGregor
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lighton wrote:WilliamDrakeMcGregor wrote:▼Spoiler On another note...what happened to Louisa? I expected her to show up at some point through all of this. Apart from that phone call she basically doesn't exist anymore in the show, not even the preview for next season showed her. Did the actress quit the show?
I looked that up for you:
▼Spoiler "My understanding is that it was a scheduling conflict as she was cast as the lead for Netflix series Missing You. As for why she’d take that over Slow Horses, it’s the difference between being top billed for a Netflix show and being a co-star on Slow Horses, so I get it from her perspective. Apple also pays non-top stars poorly (as does Netflix for that matter) but she will be paid better as first billed than for Slow Horses. Plus material wise, she gets to be the Gary Oldman of her show. Since SH films back to back seasons, I’m guessing we don’t see her in S6 either. let’s hope she’s back for the next two after."
Thanks - That's too bad, but understandable. Yeah let's hope for S7.
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- TeaAndApathy
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WilliamDrakeMcGregor wrote:▼Spoiler On another note...what happened to Louisa? I expected her to show up at some point through all of this. Apart from that phone call she basically doesn't exist anymore in the show, not even the preview for next season showed her. Did the actress quit the show?
I kind of thought she was a nothing character. I don't even remember if she did anything besides snarl and mope.
I hope River finds a reason to come back to life. Someone pointed out that he's got quite an attitude this season, but I understand. He has no one. No (real) parents, no partner, no friends because of his job, and the one person he loves and relied upon is no longer available as a sounding board. He knows he has more to offer the Park, but gets blocked by Taverner. And unlike some of the others, I don't think we've even seen his London flat (which cinematically isolates him even more from us).
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Can someone explain how Claude Whelan got appointed to First Desk? He couldn't possibly have been an agent!
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TeaAndApathy wrote:Can someone explain how Claude Whelan got appointed to First Desk? He couldn't possibly have been an agent!
That's how governments are, it's way more realistic than somebody actually competent there.
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TeaAndApathy wrote:merc wrote:▼Spoiler those feet. should be an advisory for the sensitive to look away
I felt there was a foreshadowing in one of the earlier eps this season. Do you think (your spoiler) might be an indication of ▼Spoiler Lamb being sick? Remember the fuss Standish made about his smoking and how it will kill him someday?
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▼Spoiler no he told a story to entertain in a previous episode whilst the gang were held in Slough House, after Roddy was taken, about an agent being caught and tortured whilst his girl friend was killed in front of him I believe, he saiid at the time it was just fiction, but that final shot of his feet tells us it was him!
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Re: Slow Horses
I like your spoiler, merc - good memory!
- TeaAndApathy
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lighton wrote:I like your spoiler, merc - good memory!
{gasp} I totally forgot!
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TeaAndApathy wrote:Can someone explain how Claude Whelan got appointed to First Desk? He couldn't possibly have been an agent!
Personally, I think he is under qualified to be appointed as a janitor.
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jim1961 wrote:TeaAndApathy wrote:Can someone explain how Claude Whelan got appointed to First Desk? He couldn't possibly have been an agent!
Personally, I think he is under qualified to be appointed as a janitor.
a poke at "the blob"
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Re: Slow Horses
jim1961 wrote:TeaAndApathy wrote:Can someone explain how Claude Whelan got appointed to First Desk? He couldn't possibly have been an agent!
Personally, I think he is under qualified to be appointed as a janitor.
Even more so when compared to Anatoly... 
 - Rocky_Rock_Rockbottom
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WilliamDrakeMcGregor wrote:Season final.
▼Spoiler Roddy Ho, after the interview he was just standing around...doing nothing. And in the last half of the episode he basically didn't exist.
Shirley...apart from headshotting that one terrorist, also nothing.
I could understand it. Shirley, as a Slough Houser, nothing expected of her, did more than enough with that action. She aint no James I mean Jane Bond. Roddy standing around like a hapless dipshit also perfectly suited his character. Whelan, completely understandable how he got the job. You'd say it's completely unrealistic that such an inept twit could land such a plum job.... but you'd be underestimating the pull of the British class system. It boggled my mind when I was there. Open your mouth and whatever accent pops out pigeon holes you for life. There is no moving up or down from your assigned station. Can totally believe how mumsy or p'pa would have "had a word with the home secretary, we used to break wind at college together you know" and hey presto, posh berk is sorted, albeit now in a job wayyyyy over his head.
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" You'd say it's completely unrealistic that such an inept twit could land such a plum job.... " Yet you have Starmer and Millibrand....
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Andy_G1955 wrote:" You'd say it's completely unrealistic that such an inept twit could land such a plum job.... " Yet you have Starmer and Millibrand....
in what other country would some one be made a Lord just to get a job in govt ( "Lord" Hermer )
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Andy_G1955 wrote:" You'd say it's completely unrealistic that such an inept twit could land such a plum job.... " Yet you have Starmer and Millibrand....
There is even a better example - Tulsi Gabbard, who parrots RU propaganda 1:1 and by some miracle also is Director of National Intelligence, haha
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one little tidbit. ▼Spoiler Jaffrey = Sadiq Khan the hated ( by some) London mayor. Catherine shouted out "why do you hate motorists?" referring to the London ULEZ, to get him off the stage when he was was about to be killed by the sniper .
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g371 wrote:Andy_G1955 wrote:" You'd say it's completely unrealistic that such an inept twit could land such a plum job.... " Yet you have Starmer and Millibrand....
There is even a better example - Tulsi Gabbard, who parrots RU propaganda 1:1 and by some miracle also is Director of National Intelligence, haha
So she has a far better grasp on reality and has far better knowledge of the situation than you do.. OK !
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Please stop with the politics and get back to the topic. I've started reading Slow Horses and, yeah, the show pretty much follows the book. There's a slow horse who, so far, is just a name in the book and was written out of the show (Kay White?) and there were only 3 kidnappers in the book instead of 4. For once, I'm glad I watched the adaptation before reading the book.
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