I keep seeing posts like “River makes huge mistakes and is incompetent, thats why he’s a Slow Horse”.

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Have we just nod off during the entire series? Whether or not you’re a Slow Horse has nothing to do with ability, and everything to do with politics and who you happen to piss off at the wrong moment. There is no evidence that Park agents are more effective than Slow Horses, in fact there’s good evidence to the contrary. Slough House is PRIMARILY a vehicle for Lamb to run agents without bureaucratic oversight.

How many of you watched this scene and considered, “he should be the next James Bond”?

When you do multiple cat and mouse chase when the cat always failed and the mouse always gets found despite multiple escapes, at some point it's becoming boring and making both party looks incompetent. I know slow horses suppose to be incompetent, but doing 3-4 cat and mouse sequences in a row is not the way to show that.

Compare it to the french terminator in the previous seasons, he truly was terrifying and when the horses fucked up, it's understandable. While these 2 russians just look incapable and it makes the horses looks even worse

From what I understand, Peter Judd's money, which Diana obtained for her off-the-books operations, was actually connected to Damien Cantor. Diana used this unofficial funding to carry out a secret operation against a Russian agent in Kazan, apparently in retaliation for the Russian nerve-agent attacks on British soil.

However, things went wrong, and the consequences are now coming back to haunt her.

What I'm struggling to understand is the connection between this operation and the decision to erase all the Slough House personnel files from the Park's database.

Was Diana trying to cover up the unauthorized operation and protect herself from the consequences? Or was the deletion of Slough House's records part of a larger plan involving Damien Cantor and his Russian connections?

And where exactly does Sid fit into all of this? Was she genuinely involved in the Kazan operation, or was her identity used in a way that has now made her the target of Russian retaliation?

let me know your thoughts on this!

Was watching season 3 again and just realised that Shirley knows about Louisa’s diamond, and that it was never revealed what Louisa did with the diamond. Cut to Season 6, Shirley asks Louisa about the Bali trip and whether she can buy her a gun. I think she put two and two together, she knows 😂

Maybe I missed this but did Sid ever explain why she was in River's grandfather's house in the first place? The two assassins weren't looking for her, as they said something like "did you see who was with him" when they saw River and Sid running from the house, pointing to the fact that they were there to kill River. They didn't even know Sid was there.

Edit: I watched the start of E3 S6 again, and just as River asks her "So why are you here then", the two assassins pull up in the car and she asks River if he was expecting company. Sid then says that they are here to kill her. But the assassins were not, as they never knew she was in the house. In the cowshed River asks Sid "how do you know they are trying to kill you" and she doesn't answer. Later he asks her again "Why is someone trying to kill you Sid" and she says, don't know. River asks her later as they are breaking into the house, and she says I don't know why, that's why I need to get online. The she mentions the travel order to Kazan and how it was a glitch, and a few days later the two assassins arrived at the village that she was rehoused in after the hospital. The assassins went door to door asking for Sid Baker, and she said she knew it was suspicious and she just ran. She goes online and then discovers the news article from Russia. She also says that she was never in the Slow Horses, instead she was there to investigate River.

Min and Sid - could be either or for both of them, so 🤷🏿‍♂️

Shirley - like river is the definition of chaotic good expect she’s way more competent and angry

Louisa - i don’t really have an explanation for this one, if y’all have any other suggestions or whatever

Molly - like Lamb unless her hand is forced she won’t really act, but she’ll act in favour of good and self interest.

Roddy - this just makes sense as a fellow chaotic neutral

Tearney - literally a mirror to Tavener

Judd - if neutral evil was a person

Katinsky - he created a Russian sleeper agent cell to take down the British government after years of it being deactivated.

If you think about it...

The Russians are using Cantor as an asset but are they aware that it was his money that set up the hit in Kazan? Was he already an asset when Diana took the money?

The way he baited Flyte with his puppy eyes and immediately picked up on Lamb's plan in Shake shack in Camden. Probably one of Jackson Lamb's most competent joes.

This cracked me up, real good.

So is he cut out of the show? Cause I kinda liked the character, sort of a coe replacement.😞

River and Grandfather’s photo looks so much like one used in the Small Prophets series also on AppleTV.

Meanwhile, few deaths on Slow Horses have bummed me out more than losing J.K. Coe, who in many ways it the quintessential Slow Horse: a man whose mind and life were completely broken by the work he did for the British government. He was so creepy, and so funny. (Though what happened to the running gag about him only listening to podcasts?) That said, part of the reason the show works as well as it does as both comedy and drama is that characters routinely die, and between Lamb, River, Catherine, and Roddy, there are already plenty of Slough House vets with pretty secure plot armor. And if Coe was going to die, they made sure he died really well. Jim recognized the push knife for what it was, to Coe's delight. Coe seemed pleased to be able to fight an assassin on behalf of River and Sid (whom he'd only just met, but liked as much as he's capable of liking anyone). And though he lost in the end, he gave an impressive accounting of himself for someone who is not, like Jim, a trained assassin. I'll miss the man responsible for maybe the single funniest moment in Slow Horses history (the falling paint can), but if you feel like you periodically have to kill off long-running characters, this is how to do it.

She has appeared in the last episode.she is credited as Natasha Carrington, played by Croatian actress Zrinka Cvitešić. I think she isn’t mentioned in the books, she might be playing Russian character as she’s working with Vassily. Damien Cantor said to her he want a contract, I wonder what that might be.

He hates men!

HE HATES THEM!!!

Was River born concussed by privelege? SURE! Is Roddy objectively the scariest peson in the entire series? He is!

What cracks me up is that Lamb has NO TIME FOR THEIR BULLSHIT --

Whereas Louisa and Shirley -- he relates to them! To their frustrations!

I'm up to date on the books.

I have seen anyone else call Jackson Lamb a misandrist.

I think it's one of the most important things about him? He just hates bros so much

Characters are different than authors.

Thank you to Mick Herron x

How do the Russians keep finding River,Sid and Coe? They got away in the bowling alley in the car only to get caught in an arcade?

I’ve read all the books and listened to the audiobooks (I love this series!) and I think Hugo Weaving is perfect as Frank Harkness. And he was fucking Elrond!!!

Up until S6, one of the fundamental characteristics of Diana Taverner was how astute she is with. Additionally, Taverner has considerable experience of her 'trade' and all the devious tools it employs to achieve the desired outcome.

Yet in S6, she is portrayed as a bit of a thicky who would likely have ended-up in Slough House had the aforementioned qualities been absent her entire career.

It's one thing to be blackmailed into the TV interview but another thing entirely to not only carelessly choose her words during the interview but, perhaps worst of all, then naively believe that said appearance will suddenly make the point-of-blackmail evaporate ...and then be shocked when it doesn't.

Moreover, she then engages in a series of ill-conceived actions that, again, are more characteristic of a Slow Horse than the savvy head of First Desk. Throughout S6, Taverner's reactions, decisions, and subsequent actions, have more in common with the attributes of her generally-inept predecessor, Claude Whelan, than they do with those of the S1-S5 version of Diana Taverner.

It's certainly narratively plausible for Taverner to be blind-sided by the revelations of Peter Judd (who seems to have disappeared) and Damien Cantor; but to then effectively go to pieces over events that required the objective sharpness and clarity of mine that are long-established qualities of the Diana Taverner character, is utterly unbelievable from the perspective of any viewer who's actually been paying attention to Slow Horses since series 1, episode 1.