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Watched the first two episodes when they dropped on Apple+.  It’s about an MI5 office in London where they send the fuck ups and assign them boring meaningless tasks hoping they’ll quit.  Gary Oldman plays the old time washed up alcoholic running the office.  It appears that the office is beginning to get involved in some real intrigue though.  I liked it a lot.

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  On 4/4/2022 at 2:11 AM, NeverMarryAStripper said:

Watched the first two episodes when they dropped on Apple+.  It’s about an MI5 office in London where they send the fuck ups and assign them boring meaningless tasks hoping they’ll quit.  Gary Oldman plays the old time washed up alcoholic running the office.  It appears that the office is beginning to get involved in some real intrigue though.  I liked it a lot.

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What are their Surly handles?

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I heard about this show awhile back and read the book it's based on.  Really good, I'm probably going to finish out the series.  I think there are 8 total.  Anyway, I'll be checking out the show too.

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Watched the first two last night on this recommendation.  Really enjoyed it.  Didn't realize they'd jump into the conspiracy plot so quickly.  I could have just watched half-drunk Oldman hurl insults in the vein of "In the Loop/Veep" at everyone for another 45 minutes.  The production color palate does make you want to vomit though.  

I loved the blending of old school HUMINT/tradecraft mixed in with modern day cyber/SIGINT.  

Such a great cast with interesting entanglements past and future being exposed.  Kristi Scott Thomas' comment to her oversight board was a little too on the nose, "We already spent what you gave us for monitoring Jihadi groups.  We need more to track the enemies within.  We focused on one, when we should have been looking at both."  

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Wow.  Episode 3 dropped this morning.  The conspiracy/political angle really ramps up and takes a wicked turn.  

Oldman is absolutely brilliant in this episode.  Shows he's still got it physically and in being one step ahead of Second Desk.  And his condescending mentoring to Cartwright i just absolutely hilarious.  And then there's the end scene.  Wow.  Gets real dark, real fast.  

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  On 4/8/2022 at 2:34 PM, Lobo said:

Wow.  Episode 3 dropped this morning.  The conspiracy/political angle really ramps up and takes a wicked turn.  

Oldman is absolutely brilliant in this episode.  Shows he's still got it physically and in being one step ahead of Second Desk.  And his condescending mentoring to Cartwright i just absolutely hilarious.  And then there's the end scene.  Wow.  Gets real dark, real fast.  

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I guess we aren't supposed to know exactly what happened in that last scene, but........

 

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So to address A-Tex's spoiler comment...skip over if you haven't seen Ep. 3 yet:

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  On 4/8/2022 at 4:37 PM, A-Tex Devil said:

I guess we aren't supposed to know exactly what happened in that last scene, but........

 

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Care to reevaluate this spoiler?

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Just caught up.  I had high expectations but so far they've been met.  

Echo what everyone says about Oldman.  Just another fantastic performance.  Kristin Scott Thomas is her usual wonderful self.  The main nazi is outstanding.  

Great job Apple

I'm adding Mick Herron's books to my Goodreads list. 

If you're interested there's about a 25minute interview with Mick Herron on the latest The Watch podcast. 

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favorite show so far of 2022 and there have been some fantastic offerings.

s2 is already shot and looks like it'll drop sometime in the fall, so that's awesome.  there are 7-8 books in the series i think, and a new one coming soon.  either way, lots of good source material out there.  season 2 looks to be based on book 2 - dead lions.  the showrunner makes it sound like they want to do several seasons. 

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Season finale was great. Glad to hear they have S2 wrapped up. I hope it gets picked up for several more. Love me some shady British spy stuff.

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Good clean fun. Looking forward to s2 though I’m not sure how often they can get away with an “island of misfit spies” party crashing the big league team. And also having morals on some level while the other guys don’t. 

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  On 4/30/2022 at 4:11 PM, Post Oak said:

Pretty good finale.  I'm glad they already have s2 wrapped. You've gotta think that it'll be hard getting the band back together for multiple seasons.

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it's basically like shooting a 6 hour movie.  movies shoot quicker these days, so it'll be like a long movie shoot from the 1990's.  they can find the time.

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Loved the show. If you also loved it, be sure to check out Little Drummer Girl, The Honourable Woman, and The Night Manager 

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  On 4/24/2022 at 7:54 AM, henrygandorf said:

anyone catch the how i met your mother nod?

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since nobody responded, i'll point it out.

they were in the car where the coldplay song was playing on repeat.  that made me think of the roadtrip flashback scene in how i met your mother, where the "i would walk five hundred miles" cassingle was stuck in marshall's fiero and they had to listen to it over and over again, driving them insane.  i paused the show to explain that part to the wife, as it was the only time i remember seeing that type of gag.

2 scenes later, oldman is sitting in the car refusing to get out, and "i would walk 500 miles" was blaring on his car radio.

that cannot be a coincidence.

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Had no idea Apple TV had adapted the books.  Binged S1 Thu/Fri, now ready for s2.  Oldman is so good being the anti-Smiley in this (and being smiley in tinker).  Kind of a mash-up of MI5 and MI6 responsibilities whether domestic/foreign/joes/spies, but who cares.   Entertainment candy.

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  On 5/18/2022 at 3:28 PM, Fud said:

Loved the show. If you also loved it, be sure to check out Little Drummer Girl, The Honourable Woman, and The Night Manager 

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Would also strongly recommend Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Bureau, Fauda and Smiley's People. I found all 6 eps of Smiley's People free on YT but on zero paid streaming services...not sure wtf that's about.

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Smileys people and tinker tailor starting obi wan kenobi are badass. 6 episode miniseries on early 80s bbc. If you can get past the 70s tv quality then there are some brilliant performances by the actors. And the acidity of the dialogue just burns through to the core. 

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  On 12/19/2022 at 8:18 PM, Hornius Emeritus said:

New season is kicking some bootay. 

Oldman is just tremendous.

Kind of sad what happened to Min.

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I didn’t think it was that sad.  It was a reminder that they aren’t playing around.  The plot twist with the cicada was the only lame reveal.

 

 Oldman is fantastic, and the rest of the cast outside of River is great too.  That actor doesn’t quite pull his part off.

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I binged the series this week. I thought season 2 was already done and then I find out that the finale hasn't been released yet. Fucking twats!

I was excited to see Olivia Cooke in the first couple of episodes. She makes me feel funny feelings in my pants.

But this show is fantastic. Great tension and action with some fantastic humor to boot.

 

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  On 12/25/2022 at 3:10 AM, HornOnTheBayou said:

I binged the series this week. I thought season 2 was already done and then I find out that the finale hasn't been released yet. Fucking twats!

I was excited to see Olivia Cooke in the first couple of episodes. She makes me feel funny feelings in my pants.

But this show is fantastic. Great tension and action with some fantastic humor to boot.

 

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It's pretty clear that David Cartwright, River’s grandfather, is the traitor. That would explain why Katinsky spared River when he had the chance to kill him.

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Great finale. Even better news is it looks like next season is already in the can.

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It was announced back in June 2022 that the series would be returning for at least a third and a fourth season, which would be shot back-to-back just as seasons 1 and 2 were.

The new seasons will be based on the novels Real Tigers and Spook Street, meaning the drama will have got through half of Mick Herron's eight-part book series (although there is a ninth on the way).

It's hard to say exactly when season 3 of Slow Horses will be released. While seasons 1 and 2 were released in quick succession, both in 2022, this was because they were shot back-to-back. Seasons 3 and 4 have subsequently been shot back-to-back, but this does mean we might expect a longer break between seasons 2 and 3.

However, with the seasons announced in Summer 2022 and started shooting soon after, we'd hope that we could see new episodes start airing on Apple TV+ by late 2023. 

 

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