Slow Horses
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Penultimate.Mmm …feels great.
This one starts with a home invasion, ends with a kidnapping, and goes absolutely haywire in between.
Perhaps the defining moment, however, takes us away from the action.
Then Claude says something magical:
As you know, my brief is to activate accountability and accessibility.
Thats the triple-A promise!
But now, reviewing the current situation in the round, my position has shifted somewhat to fuck-that-completely.
This whole thing needs to be locked in a concrete box and dropped in the middle of the ocean.
Adding to that, Claude also sees Giti, his trusted researcher, as a potential whistleblower.
(She needs to be put in a fucking concrete box and all.)
He spares her life in the end but leaves her pride and dignity in tatters.
That was David and his wifes daughter.
He has a long and bitter history with Harkness.
(Marcus compares Patrice, fittingly, to the T-800 model of the Terminator,notthe liquid-metal T-1000.)
Every scene propelsSlow Horsesforward to the finale, and the dialogue pops with urgency and wit.
The show is at the top of its game at the right time.
Shots
Flytes initial interrogation of River yields little: What was in France?
(Boutique arms dealer?
Classy, jokes Shirley.
Was all that coke you snorted fair trade?
The people of Slough House will probably want Coe to talk less.
Good banter between River and Flyte: Look, maybe my actions have been hard to understand.
Faking your own death, hiding your grandfather, shooting the face off a corpse …
Okay, if youre gonna do the list thing, then thats gonna make it sound worse.
Have to love the high-level Bond villain scheme of raising a deniable assassination squad from birth.
Worthy of a multi-season arc.
Or a spinoff show.
