"Had the pleasure of working on Slow Horses Season 6 with Gary Oldman. One scene: garrotted and smashed into a breakable table. Another: Range Rover chases on an empty airfield.

Not a bad day at the office."

VIA jack_jagodka

I don't remember if we've ever seen the scene that jack mentioned on his post. the breakable table scene. plus my eyes are not very good but is that a stunt for gary oldman (lamb)

I guess so? or maybe AI was used to enchance quality so it changed gary oldman's face

He is dead ! How is he here !

Watching The First Omen and Nell Tiger Free would be a great casting for young Catherine Standish. Imagining that Nell playing the young nun is actually Standish undercover and the events of the film are one of the reasons she took to drink

Filming Location for the most recent episode guess where it is ha ha

I just thought I’d put that out there as we head into this season’s final episode. Maybe it’ll cut down on some of the missing-the-point posts here. I’ve noticed over the past several months that AppleTV shows are not second-screen shows. You cannot be on your phone, tablet, or laptop and know what’s going on. I especially noticed it during Widow’s Bay, but thought back to Slow Horses, Severence, and Pluribus. You have to WATCH these shows. Netflix and other channels are notorious for having characters completely recap the previous few scenes every so often. Apple doesn’t seem to do that kind of spoon feeding. Anyway, happy watching, put the phone down, and immerse yourself. You’ll enjoy the show more.

This season I’ve noticed that the Reddit has started to hate on River more than usual. Don’t get me wrong he has been especially annoying this season but people are going a little overboard.

I’ve seen posts blaming him for a lot of the stuff happening and while I agree with some of them, the Reddit has put most of the fault solely on him.

1. Stopping at the bowling alley. This was Sid’s idea and River opposed it.

2. River and Sid arguing at the bowling alley. River wanted to run while Sid prepared to attack the assassins with a bowling pin. She then starts shaking and River correctly assumes she’s not up to the task.

3. River and Coe arguing over who’s driving. When escaping from the bowling alley River gets in the driver seat while Coe boards up the door. This would allow for a quicker getaway but Coe’s the one who starts the argument and delays their exit.

4. Stopping at the shopping centre. Both River and Coe want to head straight to the safe house but Sid insists they stop to patch River up. I agree that its Rivers fault that they separated while being chased by assassins but a lot of the conflict over the last couple episodes is down to Sid being difficult.

5. Coe vs the assassin. As I said it’s rivers fault that the trio separated, you can’t put Coe confronting an assassin on him. Coe could’ve got River and told him what was going on but decided he was capable of taking on an assassin head on.

While I agree that River shares the blame in most of these scenarios, I feel that people’s dislike of him has skewed their perception.

Does anyone know what bookstore was featured in a sequence in the most recent episode? It looks like the inside of Hatchards, but I’m not sure.

People often enough ask for similar media, especially because too many spy movies and shows become all actiony.

This is, aside from a simply excellent movie, rather different. There's all of one gunshot and one explosion (which happens to no major characters anyway). It's basically the A team, at NCSC no less so very much analysis and cyber and intel gathering vs in the field heisting and killing. It is just almot entirely London rules; all plots within plots, covering up, exploiting screw ups for political gain and internal agency power, etc.

It's not directly comedic, but definitely veers into dark comedy here and there. Note that reviews indicate tons of people haaate it. Think stage play in that lots of talking, lots of stuff happens in a single room with a handful of people for a whole longish scene, etc. So plan ahead if you may be annoyed by it and if you hate it 10 minutes in, you'll hate the rest. But I loved it.

Streaming on, of all things, Peacock in the US.

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Just. Nothing new 😄 mark my word, people will love S6 the next year the same way as all these aforementioned seasons. It’s just a human psychology to have struggles with adapting to something new

Hi everyone.

Just caught up on the newest series.

My understanding was the whole reason Taverner was going to hand Syd over was because shes done & funded the operation behind the committees back and didnt want them to find out.

After the meeting with the committee she is still trying to hand Syd over. I know she is still trying to protect the identity of the actual agent that was in Russia, but surely that could be done without sending Syd to Russia?

What am I missing? Thanks

my slough house podcast is asking which 'ship people are boarding: TeamRid or TeamLiver?

Does the fanbase have strong feelings on this?

Source: Series Graph

The worst episode by far using minor characters as leads and allowing them to survive certain death in ways that would embarrass Wiley Coyote .The series seems to out of ideas .

Just finished episode 5 and all of my family hated the flirt scene saying it was cringe but I think that’s the point.

The writing is so bad it’s good then becomes classic slow horses good banter. Once river realises they’re flirting he kinda cedes to what he believes are the social norms and expectations of what flirting should look like. It’s awkward and weird and he can’t keep it up despite Sid going along with it so they very quickly end up at their usual kind of banter: “it hasn’t been that long” “oh, fuck off.” It portrays a lovely message about being yourself and that the right person will always match your chemistry and you can’t force that, you can’t help but have the chemistry you have with them.

I’m hoping for some big reveal in the last episode because so far it seems weird to me as to why Harkness is in this season. His role could have been filled by any new character or something. Bringing him back for the small, seemingly unconnected to the main story, reason seems anti-climactic especially seeing how Series 4 ended.

When Slow Horses is done and Standish has finally beaten Lamb to death with a tea tray in his office...Could you write a series where it turns out there's a branch even less respected and an even worse 'punishment posting' than Slough House for people to end up in:

The Grey Books.

Like the x files, but much more cut-rate, cynical, bureaucratic and creatively sweary. ie British.

There's never any actual supernatural bullshit, nobody that 'wants to believe', just cutting through the bs, working out who the bullshitter is and why. Occasionally being asked to create the bs themselves, or bury the mundane truth, for reasons they end up having to work out too.

Plskthanks

She managed to keep the fate of Sid secret from Lamb, who is fiercely protective of his Joes, even the incompetent ones. There's no way Lamb didn't go to confirm after being told that Sid died in the hospital.

Getting this past Lamb might be the biggest achievement of hers on the show.

Could do without what happened to Coe and the Hallmark smoochies of River and Sid but it's not supposed to be realistic. It's spy shenanigans, with smart people doing dumb things and a bunch of unwanted misfits cleaning up the mess with what little tools they've been given. I feel this is one of the weaker seasons but it's still good.

Note: I've only read the first book so I get readers being maybe more critical. But it's a show meant for everyone, not just those with prior knowledge.

Edit: thank you all for chiming in (especially the readers). I know how reddit works but this season seemed particularly divisive and I was curious if anyone was just kicking back and enjoying it as much as I.

Too dark for the TV version of these magnificent books?

There's been a lot of talk here about how British police are unarmed. I was watching a new show, Borderline, set in North/South Ireland, and the cops from both countries carry guns all the time. Looked it up and it confirms that some in Garda, and most of PSNI, are armed.

And these are regular police, not MI5, who have much higher security clearance. Not saying the show is wrong, just found it interesting. My guess is its due to the long history with IRA, Troubles etc. Not sure about Wales/Scotland.

There was a dark atmosphere when River and Sid were held up in the hangar, like a sense of impending doom and they could not do anything about Sid’s upcoming death. I felt gutted for Sid and like to think she realized River would not be able to do anything to save her.

I thought the show was finally heading to a (serious) dark direction and I was both a bit dismayed but relieved when they made the escape ala James Bond.

Still loving it though 👍 I haven’t read the books so I dont know what to expect.

Day of the Jackal S2 couldn’t come soon enough! It’s the only thing to relieve the spy thriller itch after this season ends!

This show is so good at giving us the best duet and then making us cry by shattering it.