As an aside, has anyone else read the Zoe Boehm books? Mick Heron’s other, less successful series is also worth a look (I’ve read the first two). They’re smaller in scale and slower-paced, and they have less knockabout humour. They feel more “literary” than the Slough House books to me. They’d make a good adaptation I think.
ETA: sorry @Guapo - I accidentally replied to your post so you’ll have been tagged in this. So your trip isn’t wasted, I’ll add that the Slough House / Slow Horses connection is explicitly stated early in the first book, so I’ve never not known about it.
My favorite bit in the most recent episode is: when Lamb tells the cop to deliver a message for him to his two agents and she does with great relish, “you’re both fucking fired, I’ve had hemorrhoids that were more fucking useful than you.
I saw the final episode of the third series yesterday and enjoyed it. I’ll blur the rest of what I have to say in case anyone still hasn’t seen it.
It was admittedly satisfying to see Duffy and his dogs all die, though a bit implausible that they did so while River and the other Slow Horses managed to survive. And one bit I may have missed as I watched this on my phone; at the end, after River’s grandfather burned the file (in Chekhov’s fireplace), River got back in his car and looked down at some papers. Later, we learned that the story leaked despite the file being burned, so had River copied the file before leaking it? Or was it leaked another way?
Yes, River had a copy with a folder from a Kinkos type store. I’m not sure Duffy died, but yeah that was a high body count for four slow horse. I liked a lot of it, didn’t love the ending, but any time Lamb and Ho are together, I’m happy.
In the books, there are a lot of scenes written from Ho’s point of view, and there’s a rich seam of humour mined from the difference between the way he sees himself and the way the rest of the world sees him.
I adore this show. It’s sharp, funny, witty, with enough shenanigans to completely confuse me. All the players are outstanding, and you can can smell Jackson Lamb before you see him.
I think the high body count in the shoot out is saying that this supposedly highly trained, high quality security firm is just a bunch of wannabe soldiers who want to cosplay at being bad-ass, but really aren’t. They are barely better than storm troopers from Star Wars–1000 rounds used, no hits.
