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Slow Horses Incompetence Index: Flyte Risk


Everyone is operating at the top of their games. Or the bottoms. It’s kind of the same thing on this show.

Diana(quiet episode for her unless you choose to believe she spent the whole time scheming off-screen, which I do); Bad Sam Chapman(stared down some rowdy teens and survived an attempted murder, so pretty solid); Moira the Office Manager(really starting to like her); Molly in the Records Room(I need one scene every week where she’s just mean as hell to her superiors); Coe(you shouldn’t pull a knife on your coworkers but “still kind of stressed out about being handcuffed to a chair for a few days” is as reasonable an excuse as you’ll get); David Cartwright(I want to give him a bowl of soup); Giti Rahman(too nice, I worry); the big mean dog that chased River(he’s a good boy); mopeds, generally(any port in a storm but it’s really hard to look cool on a moped); Dancer(what if the entire next episode is a standalone one-hour prequel about his black market pawn shop?) Claude got played like a banjo by Diana for pretty much the entire first two episodes of this season, and his big plan to subvert her and reestablish control over MI5 involves sending Giti, the only person in the building as clueless as he is, on a covert mission into the records room with Molly, who doesn’t even have patience for good ideas, let alone whatever is going on here. Look, other people made bigger mistakes in the grand scheme of things, but it’s hard to think of a funnier display of incompetence than “trying to look casual while hitting on a secret agent by lifting weights and using the corniest pickup lines you’ve ever heard and ending up handcuffed to the piece of workout equipment you were trying to impress her with.”

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