Slow Horses (careful about spoilers, please)

Cafe Society
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I get waiting a day after airing, did blur, and there may not be too much interest in discussing this season, but if someone goes into a thread that is there to discuss a show that is airing weekly, they really can’t expect that people will blur all discussion about the plot.

The etiquette is arguably different for a show that drops all at once. I’ve been confused about what is proper there.

I do see that the OP @Darren_Garrison had given a “Probably better to keep them hidden, in case this thread attracts new viewers” back in ‘23 when the show was pretty new … but this far along? Not realistic or fair to any who both are watching and do want to discuss.

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IMO, because his mind desperately, desperately doesn’t want to realize it.

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The premise of the whole show is that each of the horses suffer a particular deficit in their decision making skills.

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That’s true. They are not the best of the best within MI5.

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I’m waiting for all episodes to drop. I watch this show for the characters, not necessarily the plot which usually I cannot follow! Esp series 4 which I still don’t get even after reading about it multiple times.

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Okay, that Final Destination Rube Goldberg device in episode 4 came out of nowhere.

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It already been established that River has not been in a good place lately, after last season’s revelations about his family, and the slow loss of his grandfather. One of his teammates accused him of “transforming himself into a super-soldier”; casual violence seems par for the course.

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Well that was unfortunate.

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I thought it was hilarious. Rube Goldberg would have been impressed.

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Oh I agree. It reminded me of the high school keg of nails physics problem. But still unfortunate.

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It was cartoon contrived funny. And sad that this show is now at a point where cartoon contrived funny is its high point.

Previous seasons I was eagerly awaiting each next episode. Now happen to see that a new ep dropped but could easily give up on it if some other show piques my interest (and isn’t being saved to watch together with my wife at some point).

Ah well.

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I see that the accident was in the source novel (which I haven’t read) but he simply directly bumped the can with his foot.

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I liked episode five probably the most of this season so far.

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Agreed!

I mean the twist that Tara was completely playing Whelan and Flyte was pretty obvious from word go but it was still fun getting there. Fun enough that contrived things don’t bother as much.
And some fun lines too.

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So Tara was the mastermind behind the criminal conspiracy? And I’m going to re-watch the episode but I’m not sure how she was aware that the malware succeeded to shut down the agency. And idiotic of Claude Whelan (MI5 first desk) to let her know about the tracker in the jacket.

BTW, Apple TV (no longer Apple TV+) has a new show called Down Cemetery Road, based on a novel by Mick Herron, who wrote the Slough House novels.

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Thank goodness that 20 foot wide outdoor parking lot TV was tuned to the right channel.

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Didn’t MI5 learn not to run suspicious malware on their own systems after that incident 13 years ago?

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That was MI6. They rarely talk to each other.

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So MI5 is domestic security, while MI6 is international? If Lamb is MI5, what was he doing in Berlin back in the day?

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Good question. But the lines have always been a little bit blurry and even more so during the Cold War. If the Soviets/East Germans were planning something on mainland Britain, is that domestic or international? So I could see MI5 keeping an eye on things in Berlin during that time.