Slow Horses: A Stranger Comes to Town
September 11, 2024 8:09 AM - Season 4, Episode 2 - Subscribe
A naive agent makes a discovery about the Westacres bomber. Lamb suspects that David knows more than he's letting on.
I was distracted by the Frenchness of this episode but it really was a dumb idea to go off alone again!
posted by ellieBOA at 5:22 AM on September 12, 2024 [5 favorites]
posted by ellieBOA at 5:22 AM on September 12, 2024 [5 favorites]
And 100% on brand for River.
posted by ursus_comiter at 10:08 AM on September 12, 2024 [5 favorites]
posted by ursus_comiter at 10:08 AM on September 12, 2024 [5 favorites]
River's capacity to fall out of one frying pan and into another is impressive. Another great episode!
posted by supermedusa at 10:40 AM on September 12, 2024
posted by supermedusa at 10:40 AM on September 12, 2024
i would just like to state for the record that despite my surname i am almost certainly a real person and probably not a cold body from the tail end of the cold war
posted by bcwinters at 6:53 PM on September 12, 2024 [4 favorites]
posted by bcwinters at 6:53 PM on September 12, 2024 [4 favorites]
river is dumb as hell. you’re supposed to stake a place out, watch it for a while, figure out what’s going on not just walk right into the french mansion of death
posted by dis_integration at 6:40 AM on September 13, 2024 [2 favorites]
posted by dis_integration at 6:40 AM on September 13, 2024 [2 favorites]
That’s what I love about River’s characterization. In any other show, he would be the heroic lead. Slow Horses utterly delights in showing what we often consider heroic is deeply, deeply stupid.
posted by Eikonaut at 8:43 AM on September 13, 2024 [4 favorites]
posted by Eikonaut at 8:43 AM on September 13, 2024 [4 favorites]
I'm intrigued, also, by what is up with the new office manager after Lamb's super weird non-lunch with her.
posted by jessamyn at 9:31 AM on September 13, 2024
posted by jessamyn at 9:31 AM on September 13, 2024
Oh my god, of COURSE Lamb’s text didn’t say River was dead. The look on everyone’s faces as they gradually realized what was going on was freaking hilarious.
I loved the bus ride meeting. I keep forgetting how funny this show actually is under all the intrigue and drama.
posted by kitten kaboodle at 10:22 AM on September 13, 2024
I loved the bus ride meeting. I keep forgetting how funny this show actually is under all the intrigue and drama.
posted by kitten kaboodle at 10:22 AM on September 13, 2024
Really enjoyed the French location. I've driven through so many villages like that, empty, overbuilt, vaguely hostile. The cafe in the town square is usually intimidating.
posted by Nelson at 6:23 AM on September 20, 2024 [2 favorites]
posted by Nelson at 6:23 AM on September 20, 2024 [2 favorites]
Sufficient skill to be able to order a café au lait in the hostile White Russian bar; sufficient discernment not to drink it. The chateau looked intriguing in the moments before it was burnt to the ground.
posted by rongorongo at 3:14 PM on September 20, 2024
posted by rongorongo at 3:14 PM on September 20, 2024
I was distracted by the Frenchness of this episode but it really was a dumb idea to go off alone again!
I always have opinions like this when I'm watching spy shows, and I certainly did here -- but then I reminded myself that the whole point of this show is that these people are bad at their jobs.
I assume there was a lot of CGI but the scene where River gets into the jeep and escapes the fire was beautifully filmed.
posted by mmoncur at 11:17 PM on September 20, 2024
I always have opinions like this when I'm watching spy shows, and I certainly did here -- but then I reminded myself that the whole point of this show is that these people are bad at their jobs.
I assume there was a lot of CGI but the scene where River gets into the jeep and escapes the fire was beautifully filmed.
posted by mmoncur at 11:17 PM on September 20, 2024
Number Six: Where am I?
Number Two: In the Village.
Number Six: What do you want?
Number Two: Information.
Number Six: Whose side are you on?
Number Two: That would be telling. We want information… information… information.
Number Six: You won't get it.
Number Two: By hook or by crook, we will.
Number Six: Who are you?
Number Two: The new Number Two.
Number Six: Who is Number One?
Number Two: You are, Number Six.
Number Six: I am not a number! I am a free man!
Number Two: [laughs]
posted by fairmettle at 10:42 AM on November 1, 2024 [1 favorite]
Number Two: In the Village.
Number Six: What do you want?
Number Two: Information.
Number Six: Whose side are you on?
Number Two: That would be telling. We want information… information… information.
Number Six: You won't get it.
Number Two: By hook or by crook, we will.
Number Six: Who are you?
Number Two: The new Number Two.
Number Six: Who is Number One?
Number Two: You are, Number Six.
Number Six: I am not a number! I am a free man!
Number Two: [laughs]
posted by fairmettle at 10:42 AM on November 1, 2024 [1 favorite]
I'm working my way through this season a little late...it's the first one where I haven't read the book in advance, and I'm enjoying truly not knowing what's going to happen.
I reminded myself that the whole point of this show is that these people are bad at their jobs.
Along these lines, it's so natural to side with Diana over her soppy new first in command, if only on the basis that she's Kristin Scott Thomas, that it took a moment to remember that not only are her motivations objectively bad, she herself is also demonstrably something less than a paragon of competence. (Not that I am ruling out the new guy being worse on both fronts.)
posted by eponym at 8:31 PM on December 21, 2024 [1 favorite]
I reminded myself that the whole point of this show is that these people are bad at their jobs.
Along these lines, it's so natural to side with Diana over her soppy new first in command, if only on the basis that she's Kristin Scott Thomas, that it took a moment to remember that not only are her motivations objectively bad, she herself is also demonstrably something less than a paragon of competence. (Not that I am ruling out the new guy being worse on both fronts.)
posted by eponym at 8:31 PM on December 21, 2024 [1 favorite]
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