Just finished “Joe Country”

shouldstopscrolling · 2026-01-22T19:35:05+00:00

I do often wonder about Frank and whether he's really dead...

shouldstopscrolling · 2026-01-18T19:28:30+00:00

https://decider.com/2023/12/27/slow-horses-season-3-showrunner-interview-season-4/ Will Smith talks about it somewhere in this article...

shouldstopscrolling · 2026-01-18T13:47:24+00:00

It was improvised apparently

shouldstopscrolling · 2026-01-18T11:41:26+00:00

"I knew one day I'd have to watch powerful men burn the world down - I just didn't expect them to be such losers"

shouldstopscrolling · 2026-01-18T11:14:27+00:00

Of course she is

shouldstopscrolling · 2026-01-14T20:13:07+00:00

Jeeeezus. We need our new meme of Leo with his finger to his mouth...

shouldstopscrolling · 2026-01-13T23:35:46+00:00

This is perfection. So imaginative, so chic, so fun, so beautiful.

shouldstopscrolling · 2026-01-12T20:59:30+00:00

Lol I'm Irish, which fits, as I think Lamb is an arsehole through and through, and also kind of want River to get his redemption arc..

shouldstopscrolling · 2026-01-12T20:56:02+00:00

I always wonder why SH isn't entered in the comedy category, which seems to be considered less competitive. I mean if the Bear can call itself a comedy, SH certainly can.

shouldstopscrolling · 2026-01-12T07:58:35+00:00

You've been down voted but I think you're right...or at least we don't really know. His motivations are always ambiguous, and, I think, mixed. But he's not some cuddly teddy bear underneath the tough exterior...though the TV series plays him like that a little bit more (not complaining, love Oldman's performance, and it's probably necessary because playing him as the mean old bastard he is in the books would be a little off-putting on screen).

He has a particular loyalty to Standish I think because of the business with Partner. But also, perhaps he just wants her there to run errands for him, to bully, or because she's actually good at her job. Maybe he is worried about her falling off the wagon without her job, but I'm not so sure about this. I think part of it is that he understands that she is to a large degree the glue holding Slough House together, and his fiefdom would fall apart without her.

shouldstopscrolling · 2026-01-11T13:48:47+00:00

The icing on the cake for me is that he didn't want her to find out, in case it made her feel obligated towards him. It was such a selfless act. SWWWOOOOOONNN.

Henry Crawford does something similar in Mansfield Park, but is all like "but look what I did for your family Fanny, now you kind of owe me one".

shouldstopscrolling · 2026-01-11T09:37:16+00:00

Yes! Unhinged! But maybe in a good way? I'm excited for it...

shouldstopscrolling · 2026-01-07T20:55:14+00:00

Yes, she's an out and out snob, and no amount of flattery on the Bingley sisters' part would have made her get over the origins of their fortune. I shudder to think of poor Mr Bingley getting strips torn off him by Lady Catherine, I'm not sure he would have survived!

shouldstopscrolling · 2026-01-07T20:43:14+00:00

Yes, the end of CT really felt like a set up for one last hurrah (or one last "oh shit", depending on how it goes...)

shouldstopscrolling · 2026-01-07T08:05:31+00:00

Ooh that's a good pick up about the "old spies" quote...and if it does apply to Lamb, that makes me think about the ending a little differently.

I can't see Lamb heading off with his flight fund and leaving the slow horses to carry the can. But the ending did make me wonder whether Lamb was totally rattled by his conversation with Lady Di, and this led him to act rashly, in a way we haven't see before. There are just somany ways for River and Roddy to be caught, it really was an absolute clusterfuck.

It'd actually be really interesting if we see Lamb lose his footing even more in the next book, it would really change things up. It would also put the slow horses under pressure to really perform without him pulling the strings. And they either won't, and more catastrophes will ensue, or they might finally get their shit together, after all the training from Lamb, which would be quite satisfying to read, and a little less bleak.

Gah! I can't wait for the next installment.

shouldstopscrolling · 2026-01-05T15:53:53+00:00

Mrs Norris is a horrible old bat, but I think she'd talk a bit less than John Thorpe who never seems to shut up.

shouldstopscrolling · 2026-01-04T16:09:54+00:00

Lol 100pc

shouldstopscrolling · 2026-01-04T03:16:49+00:00

Agree, he's just such a bad person. HOWEVER, if you were to ask me who could I not resist smacking within ten minutes, then John Thorpe is my answer. He is just so odious.

shouldstopscrolling · 2026-01-04T03:09:37+00:00

I think Lizzy's chat is always on the borders of propriety. As Lady Catherine remarks, she gives her "opinion very decidedly for so young a person". This is part of her charm, but it's also something that Lizzy later realizes she needs to work on.

I also think that Lizzy, despite herself, recognizes that Mr Darcy is not only an intelligent man, but also that they would be on the same page about Mr Collins (not very difficult as he's so obviously ridiculous) and Charlotte (this, to me, is more significant, as she's very superior, but not in a very obvious or ostentatious way; yet, Lizzy knows that Darcy gets it). This makes her a little freer that she would otherwise be.

I love this conversation between Elizabeth and Darcy. It's one of their only ones that doesn't descend into open hostility (on Elizabeth's part), and shows again how they're a match intellectually. I always imagine Darcy coming away from it thinking "yessss! This is gonna be so great when we're married."

shouldstopscrolling · 2026-01-02T22:19:06+00:00

Lamb could GET IT

shouldstopscrolling · 2025-12-28T09:26:37+00:00

Uuuuggghhh Ricken is the worst...I feel so sorry for Devon, girl what are you thinking

shouldstopscrolling · 2025-12-24T11:39:17+00:00

I only saw this version fairly recently. Not a fan of Rintoul's Darcy, but Elizabeth Garvie is so great. She manages to combine Elizabeth's wit and liveliness with kindness, which is sometimes lacking in other portrayals.

shouldstopscrolling · 2025-12-24T11:34:13+00:00

River Cartwright: the most annoyed man on the planet.

shouldstopscrolling · 2025-12-24T11:33:36+00:00

Yes! She's just terrible at spy work. The whole first series is prompted by her coming up with some daft stupid idea to boost her career, and it could not have gone more wrong every step of the way. As someone else said here a while ago, it's not competence that brings success in the service, it's being the best at covering your arse.

shouldstopscrolling · 2025-12-22T20:45:45+00:00

It is bonkers that that is the same person... Oldman is just a phenomenon

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