Sleep Well Beast

Allie, she/her, tired elder millennial, here to talk Slow Horses

[celiadeacon]

I have tried so hard to force myself into so many different fandoms over the years and right now I’m trying to force myself OUT of The Pitt:

Me: I am saying NO THANK YOU to that one strange little man and also everyone else

My brain: 🤔

Me: I SAID I’m NOT INTERESTED

Brain: 🤔

[joepickett]

Calibre (2018)

[straytheskies]

"It's just starting for you, sunshine. Put him in the fucking car."

[joepickett]

The Tunnel 1.07

[joepickett]

Jack Lowden as Vaughn in Calibre (2018)

[joepickett]

Slow Horses 3.03

Hobbs: Got his bollocks yet? Duffy: Yeah, I've softened him up for ya.

[ohgodthebrainworms]

You just know that when he hears Lamb call him "my lad" it's the happiest River's been in forever. The fact that it's contained in an insult makes it even better, this is how British men tell each other they love them

[joepickett]

The Passing Bells 1.01

[harleyquillao3]

I’m in this photo and I don’t like it 😂😭

[celiadeacon]

Two scenes in Calibre I think about a lot: 1) early on when the director or whoever has chosen the cutest possible sleeping position and JL is all curled up and bundled and has one of the blankets clutched against his face and then his friend comes in and wakes him up and 2) later when he’s also in bed and having a complete nervous breakdown. Sadly I have no gif or screencap-making abilities so you’ll have to take my word for it that these are worth rewatching

[slow-horses-of-slough-house]

Slow Horses, s1e6

[joepickett]

Slow Horses 3.01

[fuckyeahjacklowden]

[dogpuppy]

[pigandpepper]

River Cartwright is a fuck up. He is over-confident and too eager and starry-eyed. He races into situations face first without thinking three steps ahead. He's really bad at following orders.

But he's also clever. He's intuitive. He's quick on his feet. He's very capable physically and psychologically as an agent. He knows what to do in a bad situation, he doesn't freeze, he doesn't back down. When Lamb trusts him with a job, he damn well does it and does it well. He will back up his fellow agents, he'll protect them, he'll throw himself under the bus for them.

River thinks he's Jame Bond, but he's not, and that's the delightful part. River isn't smooth with women, but he's respectful and not pushy or amorous. He doesn't encroach on boundaries or try to fuck everyone he meets. Yes, he jumps into a fight and fuck the consequences, but unlike Bond or Bauer or whoever, it never ends well for River. Reality always kicks in.

And that's the awful part. River's life is dramatic irony 101, he doesn't realise his life isn't a movie, or one of the O.B.'s stories (even the O.B.'s stories aren't wholly accurate to real life considering how he edits what he tells River).

River is Hamlet - he thinks he's in one genre and a certain type of hero, but he's really the other, and that's what's so amusing and devastating. Any other story, River would be the clear hero, cutting through bad guys and saving the day, hang the consequences. But he's not, it's not, and that's the beautiful tragedy of it all.

[snake-it-or-break-it]

i better see this scene adapted in s6 😤

Here on this side of the door, [Coe] had River Cartwright’s sleeping form slumped against his shoulder; they were jammed thigh to thigh, and he could feel River’s pulse, a steady echo of his own. And just beyond River Shirley Dander, who, in sleep, seemed to pump out warmth, as if the fires that burned within her never rested.

Joe Country by Mick Herron

[hardyscal]