Black Doves: The Coming Night
December 17, 2024 4:12 PM - Season 1, Episode 3 - Subscribe
Memories of Sam's past come back to haunt him as he prepares to finish the job he started seven years ago; Wallace secretly meets with a Chinese envoy.
it’s a British thing.
I've never seen any tipping in pubs in my 20+ years here, no. Nor tipped in one. We show our appreciation by going back to a place again and again and paying over the odds for a pint.
Went to a restaurant the other night and noticed that the card payment was set up such that there was no way to pay less than a 10% tip, which was annoying, even though I leave tips in restaurants myself. This isn't America. Tipping is (still, just, for the time being) optional here.
posted by rory at 1:24 AM on December 18, 2024 [4 favorites]
I've never seen any tipping in pubs in my 20+ years here, no. Nor tipped in one. We show our appreciation by going back to a place again and again and paying over the odds for a pint.
Went to a restaurant the other night and noticed that the card payment was set up such that there was no way to pay less than a 10% tip, which was annoying, even though I leave tips in restaurants myself. This isn't America. Tipping is (still, just, for the time being) optional here.
posted by rory at 1:24 AM on December 18, 2024 [4 favorites]
This episode in particular I thought had a nice sad sheen of regret all over it.
Overall so far I think this is pretty good. Maybe not as good as I might ideally want a spy show with Sarah Lancashire and Kathryn Hunter to be, but pretty good.
I’m having a little trouble with the amount of DNA everybody is leaving all over the crime scenes, and how it’s apparently set in some alternate timeline where there is absolutely not a single speck of CCTV anywhere in London. I am having no trouble at all with the Catherine Tate assassins, Ben Whishaw looking sad over another glass of champagne, or Keira Knightley’s walk-in-closet filled with weapons and passports.
posted by bcwinters at 7:16 PM on December 18, 2024 [2 favorites]
Overall so far I think this is pretty good. Maybe not as good as I might ideally want a spy show with Sarah Lancashire and Kathryn Hunter to be, but pretty good.
I’m having a little trouble with the amount of DNA everybody is leaving all over the crime scenes, and how it’s apparently set in some alternate timeline where there is absolutely not a single speck of CCTV anywhere in London. I am having no trouble at all with the Catherine Tate assassins, Ben Whishaw looking sad over another glass of champagne, or Keira Knightley’s walk-in-closet filled with weapons and passports.
posted by bcwinters at 7:16 PM on December 18, 2024 [2 favorites]
Oh and PS did I miscount or did Helen shoot that one guy thirteen times, I didn’t even think they made guns with thirteen bullets in them
posted by bcwinters at 7:19 PM on December 18, 2024
posted by bcwinters at 7:19 PM on December 18, 2024
A standard magazine for a Glock 17 is, coincidentally with its name, 17 rounds.
posted by axiom at 9:51 PM on December 23, 2024
posted by axiom at 9:51 PM on December 23, 2024
she should have shot him 17 times just to be sure
posted by bcwinters at 6:58 PM on December 24, 2024
posted by bcwinters at 6:58 PM on December 24, 2024
Poor Michael. What a way to lead to a breakup.
Sam pairing up with the lady assassins never fails to be odd.
posted by jenfullmoon at 5:42 PM on January 7
Sam pairing up with the lady assassins never fails to be odd.
posted by jenfullmoon at 5:42 PM on January 7
I hadn't realized who Sam's first kill was. Interesting.
I'm watching with my kid & we just can't get over the lack of security for high-level government officials & their families.
posted by belladonna at 1:04 PM on January 19 [1 favorite]
I'm watching with my kid & we just can't get over the lack of security for high-level government officials & their families.
posted by belladonna at 1:04 PM on January 19 [1 favorite]
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Sam’s first kill - it took me a while to figure out that his first kill was his father.
Later, in the same Chinese restaurant (seems a tad Freudian):
Michael: I only have you saved in my phone as Sexy Pub Man Good Hair
Sam: Well, you’re in mine as Smoking Area Fit Guy Question Mark
Sam is drinking champagne. Hmm. Third watch and I keep noticing little things like that.
*****
Young Sam: Doesn’t hurting people feel bad?
Sam’s father: Well, I never killed a man who didn’t deserve it. Never pulled a trigger that didn’t make the world a better place.
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Lenny (to Sam): … I see you now, and you’ve got a warm heart. Warm heart and blood on your hands, and that’s not a good combination.
*****
Sam’s encounter with Stephen in the classroom.
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Helen doesn’t tip the bartender. 😮 sure we knew she would deceive her whole family and sell state secrets but … maybe it’s a British thing.
And then she meets the cute young thing from her husband’s office … .
Helen watching live torture and murder on her phone, at a work party, with no earbuds, beggars belief.
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I just watched Hit Man and read the fanfare thread. There was some discomfort over cold-blooded murderers having a blissful ever-after. Sam isn’t so lucky.
Sam might be righting wrongs with every bullet he issues but he’s also turning himself into someone who can’t have Michael. But he keeps yearning desperately for Michael.
Helen has at least the facade of a happy married life, but I think that’s why she’s so hung up on Jason. She told him who she really was, a thing she can never do with Wallace.
posted by bunderful at 6:44 PM on December 17, 2024 [1 favorite]