Slow Horses: A Stranger Comes to Town

September 11, 2024 8:09 AM - Season 4, Episode 2

A naive agent makes a discovery about the Westacres bomber. Lamb suspects that David knows more than he's letting on.

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Slow Horses Incompetence Index: Cry Me a River [Vulture / Archive]

posted by ellieBOA (9 comments total)

That incompetence ranking is tough but fair, and hilarious.
posted by Pronoiac at 7:07 PM on September 11 [4 favorites]

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 [3 favorites]

And 100% on brand for River.
posted by ursus_comiter at 10:08 AM on September 12 [2 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

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 [2 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 [1 favorite]

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 [3 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

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