r/SlowHorses

I should say it’s pretty much clear how on Earth their production is so fast after you saw it with your eyes. It took them a couple of minutes to disappear from the street with cameras and other huge stuff after these scenes were wrapped. They filmed 4-5 scenes for a few hours at two locations and by 5pm there was no one! It looks so easy, incredibly coordinated work, everything is SUPER fast and obviously enjoyable for everyone. People just know their job very well, my respect, I’ve never seen people working that good lol. It’s obviously just a few very simple scenes but it says a lot. Also very relaxed and positive atmosphere. God this show is just a peak in every aspect

>!--shite, don't they?--!<

(from a comment I made in the episode thread):

This is just a stray thought, but the assassins have seemed not-great, esp compared to the Super Soldiers from Harkness' boys in S04. Their willingness to kill being the prime point of killers, but they've only dispatched weak or oblivious targets with surprise, failed to kill Moira. Their mediocre abilities seems almost intentional to me, whether a plot point or it's their mission to be semi-OK assassins.

I don't see too much discussion of the cinematography of the show. I'm doing a slow rewatch of the series while we wait for each week's new episode, and I just started S3.

The opening scene in Turkey is utterly gorgeous. And the scene in the tunnel >!where Standish is abducted !<is lit so well.

It occurs to me that even in the dingiest scenes, the lighting is bright and crisp enough to see faces and details -- this is not a murky show. Compared to most other things on television this is beautiful to look at. (Not "Vince Gilligan in Albuquerque" beautiful, but the craftsmanship of the camerawork is impressive.

I've been watching season 4 recently and it just seems like everybody is incompetent, even outside of the horses. There's been a long stream of severe fuckups the whole season:

- Three dogs can't deal with a guy standing in the middle of the street with no cover.

- The police and the dogs let Harkness get away because because they can't seem to get their shit together.

- Sam keeps his flight money in his office for some reason, and gets got even though he has a pistol in his possession.

- Sam, Shirley, and Marcus can't deal with Patrice either, and he even managed to get away after Lamb runs him over with a fucking car.

- River gets grabbed by the dogs when it was very obvious that they hadn't really left the house yet.

- Moira manages to empty Lamb's revolver on the floor and then she can't find all the rounds somehow.

I get that the horses are meant to be less than ideal agents but good god man.