1x03 Bad Tradecraft

Keeps improving.
Gritty ending, great cliffhanger

I'm mostly enjoying this, but the way the kidnappers and some of the other right wing characters have been written is honestly just laughable. They're charicatures and it keeps pulling me out of the show every time they talk. I get it, they hate immigrants - but at least be a little more subtle in the writing, people don't actually talk like this.

72 | The real reason for the kidnapping was a bit shocking. It put Slough House in a more important role. Politics could get dirty easily, whoever is involved in it would do whatever they can to achieve their goal. For normal citizens that might be looks bad and not respect human rights. But if we see the bigger picture, one man's life could save a thousand others. Enough about politics, Jackson Lamb needs to learn some manner. His behavior was so funny to watch and carried this show's quality.

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Rating: 71.29

Plot

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

Director: James Hawes

Favorite Characters

1.5: Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb
1.4: Samuel West as Peter Judd
1.4: Kristin Scott Thomas as Diana Taverner
1.3: Brian Vernel as Curly
1.2: Rosalind Eleazar as Louisa Guy
1.2: Paul Hilton as Robert Hobden

Written by Kornelius Harda Wicaksana

Yeah, about halfway through I was like "They're kinda revealing a lot of the supposed plot here", so obviously felt there had to be yet another final twist, and managed to guess what it was, which in turn ruined the reveal . Bit disappointed.

Thank god this episode turned everything around, I knew the "evil white males" trope was bollocks. False flag it is then.

Taverner and Lambs interaction is so hilarious.