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Does anyone watch this series besides me?

A rather good episode and having Claudia Black guest star already blessed the episode so that's what we call Double PlusGood in the modern lingo.

Honestly, quiet as it's kept. This is a MUCH better season premiere than Season 1. FAR FAR more cohesive narrative. Much less cringe humor and this is from someone who enjoyed the first season. You would not be able to find this as objectionable as most of the episodes in the last season.

It's a great start. The jokes are better and mesh with the characters and story. The easter eggs are more fun and feel less pushy. Hopefully the momentum only goes up from here.

67 | The first sequence was so tense but unfortunately anti-climactic. It gave false expectations to the stakes of this show. Slow Horses tells about terrorism activity in kind of the lowest level of MI5 point of view. Gary Oldman who played Jackson Lamb, an old and grumpy boss easily steals the show. This first episode could be more optimal in delivery. It has a good cast and plot material, hope this show improves in the next episode.

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Rating: 66.54

Plot

P1: 1.3
P2: 1.2
P3: 1.2
P4: 1.2

Director: James Hawes

Favorite Characters

1.3: Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb
1.2: Jack Lowden as River Cartwright
1.2: Olivia Cooke as Sid Baker
1.2: Freddie Fox as Spider Webb
1.1: Jonathan Pryce as David Cartwright
1.1: Saskia Reeves as Catherine Standish

Written by Kornelius Harda Wicaksana

Plot-wise, there's no much to reel you in but we'll keep watching because of the characters.

I was gonna make a crack about the right honorable M. Oldman getting fat, but found out he put on weight for this role (he wore a fat suit when he played Winston Churchill).

Wow....

It's so good to Gary Oldman doing something like this. This has proved so funny already!

an extremely satisfying series finale

Death row episodes are the worst. It's a barbaric practice and everything about it just screams how immoral this country is. It's exceptionally gross. The idea that "Oh hey we killed someone for the crime we're never going to open the case again even if we get evidence" is so horrific it makes me gag and it's the central premise of this episode as Jane and the FBI have to get a confession before the execution or else no one will care what the real killer has to say. The irony of someone in this episode pointing out how it's about justice when they end up being proven that the death row inmate isn't the killer. Which we know from the episode construction had to be true from the start. All this and that's ONLY the ethical consideration. Not even accounting for the physical and fiscal considerations that of course aren't the purview of this show.

A middling pilot, but there's certainly a lot of room to grow

A great season opener reminding you of everything you like about this show. The amount of memes you could make from Kristen's face alone

A fantastic premise for this show. An abbey of silence where they have to assess a miracle without saying a word. There's an air of the disturbing throughout the whole episode in spite of some of the most genuine moments of amusement in the series today. Some clever and unexpected visual design on the internal monologues really help keep the engagement up without disturbing the air of silence.

An utterly delightful episode that plays with the line between reality and fiction that is practically the trademark of this show.

oh dang Rachel those are TEENAGE GIRLS. Don't talk to them. Just don't make eye contact and hope they don't speak to you.

talia was being sexually harassed by a guest star. For some reason the show did not take her completely seriously there's no reason for them not to have done that because she is a main character and the perpetrator was merely a guest star who had no important role in the show. However she decided to stick to her guns and leave the show . this is very unfortunate because I really did enjoy her character. I've been wondering how they were going to deal with her character not being on the show anymore turns out they just use the laziest solution they have. It does the job but there's a very noticeable hole in the balance on the show.

While severance has been a slick show from the beginning. Well shot. Well paced. Well acted. It's been kind of a slow drag to nowhere. Even the revelation of Petey while interesting didn't really take us anywhere. But episodes 8 and 9 really do successfully deliver on the tension that's been building all season finally unite the inside story and the outside story.

Giving Beck a voice was great. It removed the creepy idolization stain on her from seeing her only from Joe's perspective. It gives her agency that is starting to be needed to take this show to a new level.

Okay, well that was confusing. The most notable storyline in this episode is the one involving the maths tutor, well specifically the maths tutor and the vicar.

Good lord woman why are you so.... and I struggle to find another word for this but stupid. Just one stupid moment flipped the entire path of the story for a character who honestly was amazing before then.

When you know someone so well why would make the presumptions she makes. Being shocked at CP I get. That's awful stuff I can't imagine. But assuming that Ben your math student is gleefully and casually taking ownership of it is ridiculous. The worst part is that in spite of the fact that his father is a vicar she can't imagine any other outcome than it's Ben's "He told me from his own mouth". Now Harry is also a moron for being unable to explain a simple concept like "it belongs to a parish member" without going through three fumbles. Just explain. How this ended up with her bleeding in your basement is beyond belief.

It kinda says something about jail, that, in this show, this dude is facing being imprisoned. Having already been there, he decides he'd rather blow his brains out than go back. This is presented casually. The show doesn't see this as exceptional, barely noteworthy. The average viewer just understands this. It doesn't need to be explained. That says something kind of terrifying about our society. His crime to go back was kidnapping. It's not like he hurt the kid or killed someone.

It's fine. Nothing special yet. Justin is ruggedly handsome enough. The secondary team is compelling enough to meet minimum standards. We have his weekly tropes of fighting for money now and "Contract becomes legally binding upon success" etc.

If you have a gap in your line up this is competent enough to fight for a spot. We'll see how it looks three episodes in. Right now could go either way.

People are disappointed become they are expecting what they saw in the movie, a comedy. I liked this episode.

I was just waiting for the “but did you die tho?” Line and it never came, shame

one of the funniest murder of the show. I mean there have been some fun murders this season. Real 'final seasons' stuff. But the one here is just so chuckle free.

That said Carie-Anne Moss's development has been excellent.

No seat belt, no helmet and I've never heard anyone pronounce Vi that way. What about Vim?

A few other things than this show is have done the same sort of weird tech. I think we're in this weird age where tech issues are represented more accurately, but tech is still represented Awfully. I remember earlier one of the big kings of tech still picks his password to be a date that personally significant to him. No one does that.. especially not the tech elite. I mean men that especially not people who are actually technically literate. The tech elite are a bunch of morons who just have money but anyone who knows any technology know if you don't put your birthday as a password

What the?

There's a C-plot line that has Kylie who was working three jobs suddenly define her happiness as finding one job that she can be loyal to. It's so hilariously a transparent anti-"Quiet Quitting" message. They inserted the whole plot line to say that people who work multiple jobs can't find happiness even though they're making more money and so they should quit the jobs and just find one job and be loyal to it.

That is an unexpected level of Copaganda.

Classic cop throwing garbage charges on someone to get information out of them but the cop in that situation is a HERO. She does this in spite of the fact that he's fighting custody battle and would lose custody of his kids. BECAUSE he could lose custody of his kids. Cops will separate children and parents just for funsies. And they portray this as heroic.

If I wanted to be trite I'd compare this to the infamous Pixar scene that opens up their movie Up but if instead of like 7 minutes it was 30 minutes. Maya and Fred make an interesting couple.

Strong opening for the inheritor of the Percy Jackson curse.

I don't even know if there's a curse or anything but yeah solid solid work. Great adventure vibes and most importantly it manages to stand up on it's own distinct from the previous adaption. I do feel like Percy's mom is getting undersold but the two episode premiere give great confidence that this will be another successful adaption.

An interesting pilot. Not to attack it but most pilots go for flashing and attention grabbing. This is much more methodically paced. A criminally underused Idris I hope gets more personable later. There's some iffy blocking in some places but it mostly works. It doesn't break credulity or anything.

You know for what started as a simple crime procedural. This is spiraling again into some really ethically dark situations. I'm officially calling the pilot bad. It's just a bad episode because these are just fascinating stories.

This episode feels like they set it up to be interesting but ended up reductive. But that's just the storytelling. I'm not a fan of this particular story.

Previously we were told that just because something looks like a monsters doesn't mean it is. It kinda felt specifically like a hint that Medusa was a victim (and she is) in need of sympathy for what happened to her and not revulsion for how she looks. And yet we have Medusa who saves the children and ends up with her head cut off. Almost like we could have just judged her by her monstrous appearance in the first place.

Here's a new cozy crime investigation series with a bunch of familiar faces, and oh, look.....it's Erika Christensen from 20 years ago Swimfan! all grown up and lookin' fine :smiley:

To me it takes a few easy on the eyes cast members, an acceptable plot, professional videography and comfortable lighting to decide on whether I'll be moving forward with the show or not. I'm all cozied up with this show....let's see how it'll hold up.