#slow horses s1

[lovetgr76]

The show is back on track with the arrival of Season 4, which currently has a 100% rating on the review aggregator. Thanks to these ratings, plus a first season with a total of 95%, the overall total for the show is an enormous 98%, making it one of the highest-rated shows on Rotten Tomatoes today.

[donotnomi]

🐎 OVERANALYZING SLOW HORSES #001 🐎

In the Season 1 finale of Slow Horses, Diana Taverner hands Lamb a resignation letter dated 20.02.16, marking the show's start in 2016.

But let's address the somewhat unrealistic timeline in the book canon. It's reminiscent of the 007 franchise—time passes, yet River is perpetually almost 30, Standish and Lamb are no closer to retirement.

It's intriguing to ponder how the show will navigate this temporal quirk. 🤔

[teenwolf-theoriginals]

river cartwright + licking his lips

[lovetgr76]

Robert Frost on Editing for the Espionage Dramedy 'Slow Horses' | No Film School

[rdng1230]

The Asshole To Caring About People Ratio

Rewatching some shows and I think I’ve put my finger on something.

There is a really important ratio for me that exists between a character being an asshole and a character genuinely caring about other people. For me I can get behind a huge amount of assholery if the character goes out of their way to care about other people (and I get that that tolerance is different for everybody, and is highly situational depending on genre etc.). But when that ratio starts to get messed with without proper acknowledgement/narrative framing by the writers it reeeeaaaaaally bothers me.

If a character starts to not care about people but remains the same amount of asshole while the show carries on as if nothing has changed, I don’t think it’s very good writing. I love a good tragedy, I love a good negative character arc! I just hate when characters behave in a way that suggest a backwards slide or a journey into the dark without the narrative ever acknowledging it. I believe most people would agree that if a character stops caring about people altogether that’s usually a tragedy. So why are there so many shows where that happens and the show doesn’t even bother to acknowledge it? This is just a personal preference but if it’s the type of media with root-for-able characters, then writers can’t fuck around with this ratio without acknowledgement and a narrative framing shift.

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[nickcassldy]

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[lovetgr76]

They're adorable 😍 �� ❤️

Gary Oldman + Saskia Reeves 🐎🤎

[cowtiekentos]

Anyone with me tonight is fireproof. And you are in my debt until you're in a care home. SLOW HORSES S1 | EP 3

[luxe-pauvre]

OCTOBER 2024

Read:

The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books

your fave is selling a pedophilic fantasy*

brat red, brat blue, brat me, brat you

How to win a Nobel prize

Watched:

Brat Summer, Indie Sleaze & The Death of the Clean Girl

The Terror (S1)

Slow Horses (S4)

Woman of the Hour

Pain Hustlers

She Said**

Listened To:

The usual comfort albums

Went To:

Too many medical appointments

Awful panel sessions about management consulting

[donotnomi]

SBIFF Cinema Society Q&A - Slow Horses with Gary Oldman and Douglas Urbanski recap

A recap of the juiciest tidbits from the panel featuring Gary Oldman and Douglas Urbanski:

About season 6

Season 6 is currently in pre-production, with most episodes already written.

Adam Randall, the director for Season 4, will helm the entire sixth season.

Production has allowed Randall to contribute to the writing process by joining the writers in the writing room.

Gary Oldman has already read the scripts and finds them fantastic.

About season 5

Season 5 will unveil a significant revelation about Lamb's past.

Viewers will catch a glimpse of Lamb's house.

Gary Oldman describes this season as truly impressive and with a more Le Carré-esque feel, akin to season 2.

Expect an intense exchange where Lamb blackmails Diana.

New, incredible insults directed at River are on the horizon.

Season 5 is a 'three farts season,' says Oldman, laughing his ass off.

About Mick Herron

Gary Oldman asked Mick Herron for extra information about Lamb when working on S1 but quickly realized that the character is a mystery even for his creator. Herron's response is often "I don't know".

Mick Herron asked Gary Oldman to accompany him to a signing session just before the release of the first season, not realizing that the show would eventually relieve him of his signing session obligations for good.

It was actually Mick Herron who suggested using David Cornwell, John Le Carré's real name, as the name on Lamb's passport that briefly appears in S1. And Kristen Scott Thomas's casting as Diana Taverner was inspired by her previous work with Gary Oldman on the set of The Darkest Hour.

Behind the scene

Will Smith is frequently on set, going over scripts with the actors.

Occasionally, there's room for improvisation.

With a single director overseeing the entire season, the Slow Horses team remains committed to their vision for nearly a year of continuous work on set.

Gary Oldman receives the scripts really early for every season.

Fart acting are obviously "sound effects".

There are emails going back and forth between Oldman and production about 'fart acting.' The one in the car in S3 was praised as 'robust.' There were emails about 'the frequency' of the sound because the car has leather seats, being a Rolls Royce.

The trench coat remains the same, unchanged since the very first season. No one is allowed to wash it.

Kristen Scott Thomas's casting as Diana Taverner was inspired by her previous work with Gary Oldman on the set of The Darkest Hour.

Almost all the crew come back year after year.

Gary Oldman compares working with the cast of Slow Horses to the joy of winning his Oscar.

[queer-frenchmermaid]

Rewatching Slow Horses to convert a friend. S1 E1 the first thing you see after the credits is Jackson waking up. He gets up and goes to the window. The first thing that he sees you ask ? Catherine Standish arriving to work.

I love them. First second of characterisation and they're already together, Jackson watching over her.

[like-sunflower]

Grumpy Sam || Slow Horses s1 ep2

Sam as Alan Black

[lovetgr76]

I am HERE for it!!! (we see you Lamb... we KNOW you CARE!!!!)

Jackson in s1e1 when he looks out the window as Catherine goes to work

[lovetgr76]

Jackson Lamb and / or Catherine Standish caught smiling...

[lovetgr76]

👏👏👏Wow!!😍❤️����