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Slow Horses [Apple] (*SPOILERS*)

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  • #2
    Slydice
    Registered Users Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    I dunno. My reaction was the cast looks like an endorsement but it feels like it would need a solid writer and director.


    Director James Hawes seems to be taking on his first whole project but has worked on some decently directly shows:

    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0369949/


    Book writer Mick Herron having his first adaption of his books: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11145649/

    Writer for the show Will Smith (not the Fresh Prince) looks to lean in the comedy direction: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0810337/



  • #3
    GreeBo
    Registered Users Posts: 27,007 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    From the looks of that clip they are keeping pretty close to the books which is a good thing and the cast fits in with the characters so I'm looking forward to this one!



  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Critics Consensus says : Winner

    Mix of comedy and gravity works

    https://www.metacritic.com/tv/slow-horses/season-1



  • #5
    yabadabado
    Registered Users Posts: 16,520 ✭✭✭✭yabadabado


    I watched the first two episodes and enjoyed them.

    Nothing we haven't before.



  • #6
    Paddy@CIRL
    Registered Users Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭Paddy@CIRL


    Fan of the books, and this has been consistent with them so far. Enjoying it.

    I do have concerns that you would have to have read the books to really appreciate it, though. There's only six episodes in this first season, and I don't think that's enough time to really flesh out Lamb & Co.



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  • #7
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users Posts: 60,274 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    I'm enjoying it however it is no Spooks.



  • #8
    gmisk
    Registered Users Posts: 31,816 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118920270#Comment_118920270

    A second season is already filmed and plans for more seemingly



  • #9
    gmisk
    Registered Users Posts: 31,816 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    I have finished first three very enjoyable so far.



  • #10
    gmisk
    Registered Users Posts: 31,816 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Getting better and better just finished episode 5 only one more to go.

    I will say though can't believe the kidnapped guy didn't do anything when he had the chance at petrol station!



  • #11
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users Posts: 60,274 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Enjoyable season over all and the trailer for season 2 looks good enough to give it a go.



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  • #12
    gmisk
    Registered Users Posts: 31,816 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118999878#Comment_118999878

    Very much agree....solid.

    Really good ending!

    Will watch season 2 plenty of stories to explore.

    MVP (bar Kristin Scott Thomas) Saskia Reeves...terrific!



  • #13
    markw7
    Registered Users Posts: 343 ✭✭markw7


    Have to echo the sentiments on here, brilliant show. Bodes well that there's a few books written already for this series so ample material for subsequent seasons.

    Hopefully they won't leave it too long to release the already filmed season 2.



  • #14
    mewso
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 8,806 Mod ✭✭✭✭mewso


    Excellent stuff. TV show of the year so far for me.



  • #15
    archfi
    Registered Users Posts: 4,547 ✭✭✭archfi


    Totally enjoyable.

    Gary Oldman was brilliant, great storyline. Terrific cast.

    The issue is never the issue; the issue is always the revolution.

    The Entryism process: 1) Demand access; 2) Demand accommodation; 3) Demand a seat at the table; 4) Demand to run the table; 5) Demand to run the institution; 6) Run the institution to produce more activists and policy until they run it into the ground.



  • #16
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users Posts: 84,825 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Apple TV+ has renewed their widely acclaimed spy drama ‘Slow Horses‘, starring Academy Award winner Gary Oldman, for seasons three and four before season two has even launched.

    https://forumofgames.com/




  • #17
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 35,941 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Watched the first two episodes of this and really liked it. It's a nice twist to have the main cast basically the worst, most incompetent dolts of MI5. Gary Oldman's performance is a shade too try hard but still fun all the same.



  • #18
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 35,941 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Finished this up and loved every minute; a really inventive approach to the espionage drama and threaded the needle so the Horses remained a bit useless by the end. Lamb and Standish had a great antagonistic chemistry, the former a great performance from Gary Oldman, really nailing the comedy and pathos of the failed spy. Was delighted to have a season 2 trailer play after the last episode's end



  • #19
    GreeBo
    Registered Users Posts: 27,007 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119285802#Comment_119285802

    I don't think you could reasonably call Lamb "a failed spy"!



  • #20
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 35,941 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119285846#Comment_119285846

    Well, thinking of stature and his general personal grooming. He is obviously very astute and capable - but Slough House is the pits and his team barely functional. Which has been half the fun.



  • #21
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users Posts: 60,274 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Season 2 trailer

    Season 2 starts December 2nd.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rOPA8VfVn8&ab_channel=AppleTV




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  • #22
    The Black Oil
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 18,196 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Black Oil


    That's a pretty quick turn around, from the first having arrived in April.

    Moderator: Television, Psychology and Dublin County North.

    CMod: Entertainment



  • #23
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users Posts: 60,274 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119766356#Comment_119766356

    Both season were filmed back to back season two was finished before season one even aired.



  • #24
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 35,941 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Looking forward to it. Will be interesting to see how such monumentally useless staff will get drawn into bigger mysteries and threats each time. Could be one of those things that if it keeps happening, credulity is stretched.



  • #25
    archfi
    Registered Users Posts: 4,547 ✭✭✭archfi


    Really looking forward to this

    The issue is never the issue; the issue is always the revolution.

    The Entryism process: 1) Demand access; 2) Demand accommodation; 3) Demand a seat at the table; 4) Demand to run the table; 5) Demand to run the institution; 6) Run the institution to produce more activists and policy until they run it into the ground.



  • #26
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users Posts: 60,274 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Season 2 starts tomorrow.



  • #27
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 35,941 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Excellent, can't wait. A surprising Best Of across the year.



  • #28
    OmegaGene
    Registered Users Posts: 8,575 ✭✭✭OmegaGene


    Just in the middle of episode 3 of the second series and really enjoying it

    The internet isn’t for everyone



  • #29
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users Posts: 60,274 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    I'm enjoying this more than season 1 just for Gary Oldman stealing every single scene he is in.


    The ending this week you could see coming a mile away.



  • #30
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 35,941 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Caught the first two episodes of season 2; it's such an eminently watchable show, and you gotta love this cast of total fúck-ups. They're all so lovably useless.

    Min Harper though, easily the most hapless of the lot. He's so obviously out of his depth here but can't seem to accept it.

    Also, feeling hungry after episode 2s tasty looking bacon sandwich, lol.



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  • #31
    OmegaGene
    Registered Users Posts: 8,575 ✭✭✭OmegaGene


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120002979#Comment_120002979

    The ending was a bit meh

    The bloke is a twat in the way he handled it, he’s more MIA than MI5

    The internet isn’t for everyone



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