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Slow Horses Competence Index: Many Jobs Well Done


Well, this is awkward: In the season finale, Slough House’s finest rose to the occasion.

Specifically, the thing where Frank Harkness is his dad and where his grandpa traded his mother for the slew of weapons and fake identities that made decades of terrorism possible. Claude(it is just outrageously fun to watch this underqualified and overconfident klutz get outwitted by every woman he meets and I hope he returns next season to get bamboozled yet again); Diana(Diana was not having fun this season); Patrice the assassin(successfully took out a team of Dogs but got gunned down and scalded by the misfits of Slough House); Yves the bomber(did a lil terrorism to make daddy mad); various Dogs(if not for River, they would have ended the season with a zero percent success rate of catching accused terrorists in train stations); me(really painted myself into a corner by framing this as an Incompetence Index); Flyte(the Head Dog in this show pretty much exists solely to get flummoxed by Lamb and River but I do like her energy, if nothing else). ON ONE HAND: Secured his release from custody despite ordering the assassinations of multiple people and running a mercenary squad made up of his own children, one of whom went rogue and blew up a sizable chunk of downtown London.

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