[bots]

Youtube video

[Ammi]

…Yay…!!!!!!!!!!….Im watching The Morning Show, which I’m loving so I might let the episodes build a bit and then binge…

[Ammi]

… @bots ….good start, yes…?….…the opening scene/event was very powerful…

[bots]

Originally Posted by Ammi

… @bots ….good start, yes…?….…the opening scene/event was very powerful…

i haven't watched it yet

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by bots

i haven't watched it yet

…I was careful not to give away any spoilers because I wasn’t sure if you would have ….…it was a good opening episode and great to have the characters back…

[bots]

what a great first episode

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by bots

what a great first episode

[bots]

episode 2 was great too. The problem is that the characters in Slough house feel like old friends, we know them so well, so nerves are on edge constantly

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by bots

episode 2 was great too. The problem is that the characters in Slough house feel like old friends, we know them so well, so nerves are on edge constantly

…oooooo, I’ll catch up with it as soon as we get home…..

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by bots

episode 2 was great too. The problem is that the characters in Slough house feel like old friends, we know them so well, so nerves are on edge constantly

[bots]

it gets better

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by bots

it gets better

[Ammi]

…bots, another episode today, I think …

[bots]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…bots, another episode today, I think …

thanks for reminding me, i'm going to watch it now. Hmm its not there for me yet, maybe later

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by bots

thanks for reminding me, i'm going to watch it now. Hmm its not there for me yet, maybe later

…oh that’s odd because I’ve just googled and it was aired from 9am and already there are reviews/spoilers which I’ve avoided…

[Crimson Dynamo]

Watching the opening of series five of the Apple TV show Slow Horses, it occurred to me that British television long ago decided on its own amendments to Knox’s rules. The baddies must always be white British types from the upper or lower classes. Preferably both, acting in collusion. Thus an actor doing a preposterous impression of a 1950s Tory MP may be allowed to busily collaborate with someone from Essex.

At the same time, all ethnic minority characters must be very close to angels – especially if they are Muslim. Indeed any Muslim character who works for MI5 or the police can be relied upon by the viewer, from early in the drama, not to be involved in any terrorism plot. In fact they will probably be key to solving the terrorism plot carried out by the sinister white natives.

Slow Horses (based on the Mick Herron books) has an outstanding cast, including Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott-Thomas. But its plotlines and characters have tended to follow all the modern commandments. Series one featured a gang of working-class white nationalists who abduct and threaten to behead a lovely young Muslim man on camera. Which is something that happens a lot, obviously. The latest series opens with another misogynistic, white working-class racist gunning down a lovely South Asian man who is campaigning for an equally lovely-seeming Muslim candidate for mayor of London. This candidate is standing against a bluff, sub-Faragist white demagogue. It is clear whose side we are meant to be on.

A gang of working-*class white nationalists threaten to behead a lovely young Muslim man on camera

Perhaps the series will go on to surprise me. I hope so. But the auguries are not good, based on the past 25 years of British spy and crime thrillers.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...-for-tv-drama/

[bots]

you obviously haven't watched the show and neither had the author of that piece

[Ammi]

…it was another good episode…… @bots ….

[bots]

it's been a great series so far, only 2 more episodes to go in this series i think

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by bots

it's been a great series so far, only 2 more episodes to go in this series i think

…it feels as though they won’t wrap it up in two episodes, doesn’t it…and yet we know they will…it’s a great season, though/those storylines have maintained throughout the whole series tbh…