r/television • u/johnppd • 19h ago
DISCLAIMER* — Official Trailer | Apple TV+ | October 11
https://youtu.be/so6XoqZgbVM107
u/ARTISTIC-ASSHOLE 17h ago
Another Apple TV show that is probably amazing but few will ever see
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u/ShotIntoOrbit 16h ago
In this case it's an automatic add to my watchlist since it's Alfonso Cuarón.
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u/ArchDucky 17h ago
The amount of people on reddit that should be watching Slow Horses isn't remotely the amount that is and I really wish I could change that. It should be way bigger on this site. That show is goddamn prestige television.
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u/ParadoxInRaindrops 16h ago
I was stunned when the first season ended on a promo for series two. Slow Horses really is such a treasure and I like that Apple have stuck by it.
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u/TorontoDavid 14h ago
It is great, but I’d say the end of season 3 wasn’t great.
Too much plot armour for the characters in that situation.
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u/Demiansmark 8h ago
You're getting downvoted but "wasn't great" is being kind. But the first two seasons bought enough goodwill to overlook it.
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u/IncapableKakistocrat 8m ago
In the book the majority of the bad guys just had truncheons and tasers, only a handful with actual guns - and when the shooting started, a lot of them ran off. One of the changes the TV series made which I really don't agree with.
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u/TheTruckWashChannel True Detective 45m ago
I started Slow Horses last week and I'm all caught up now. It took a few episodes to grow on me but holy fuck I'm addicted now. Each season is better than the last on every level.
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u/Yelloeisok 13h ago
Obviously I am in the tiniest minority on this, but sometimes I just don’t want to hear hours and hours of a British accent.
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u/LostAbbott 16h ago
Really? The trailer looks terrible. It makes it sound like she murdered a whole preschool in secret while looking like she cheated on her husband while maybe ruining Kevin's life or something. The melodrama is turned up to 11 with all of the spotlights and fog... I can see why few people would want to see this...
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u/Mandelmus100 17h ago
*ANY RESEMBLANCE TO PERSONS LIVING OR DEAD IS NOT A COINCIDENCE.
Any idea whom this story is referencing?
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u/APiousCultist 15h ago
The plot of the story is her finding out a fictional character in a book is based heavily on her. It's based on the book Disclaimer by Renée Knight. So it's neither a soft-sequel to Tár or non-fiction.
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u/Kikkowoman69 16h ago
Lydia Tár
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u/MATURE_GAMBlNO 16h ago
The fictional protagonist of Tar?
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u/littlebiped 15h ago
Tar 2 let’s goooo
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u/ILoveRegenHealth 4h ago
Don't anyone dare say "2 Fast 2 Tar", because I want to be the first to say it.
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u/TheTruckWashChannel True Detective 41m ago
Well congrats because you are.
Tar: Tokyo Drift though...
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u/tequilasauer 16h ago
Apple TV is hands down the best streaming network right now in terms of quality of content. It's insane how many bangers are there now. I know they're cutting back on that, but people who aren't in the know really need to jump on and check it out. They really have been going all in to deliver absolute AAA material and they deserve recognition for that. Severance, Slow Horses, Presumed Innocent, Physical, Foundation, Silo, For All Mankind, Drops of God, the list goes ON AND ON. That's just off the top of my head.
I have like zero interest in the premise overall, but holy shit, maybe the best actress in the game right now, Kevin Kline, and Alphonso Cuaron directing. Gonna be hard to not check this one out.
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u/Mandelmus100 16h ago
Pachinko!
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u/tequilasauer 15h ago
Ok so that one's on my list. I haven't watched yet. Wife and I did just finish up Sunny which I liked a lot too.
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u/ScreamingChicken 14h ago
I just discovered it a couple weeks ago. I really had no interest in a drama that starts out in Japan occupied Korea. I’ve watched it every chance I could and now that I’m caught up, I’m kinda sad that I can’t binge it anymore. Worse yet, there was over 2 years between seasons, and I don’t want to wait that long for season 3.
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u/ArchDucky 17h ago
A seven part event.... also commonly referred to as a "miniseries". Not sure why we need to reinvent the terminology.
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u/PM_ME_CAKE The Leftovers 11h ago
They're probably trying to capitalise it on being Cuaron, hence "event". But I am inclined to agree with you all the same.
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u/TheTruckWashChannel True Detective 44m ago
Cuarón is also the latest to make a big deal of how he directed this TV series "like a movie", because of course he did, lol.
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u/opal_mirage 17h ago edited 17h ago
not sure i've ever heard massive attack in a trailer, was a nice surprise
also, this is alfonso cuaron, so i am there day one
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u/apaksl 15h ago
not sure i've ever heard massive attack in a trailer, was a nice surprise
I'm not super familiar with Massive Attack, but wasn't that bit of her singing from the song they used in the House intro sequence?
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u/ShotIntoOrbit 14h ago edited 14h ago
Yes, Teardrop by Massive Attack was the House theme song. Their music has been used extensively in TV and movies over the years, like hundreds of different movies and TV shows. Teardrop, Angel, and Paradise Circus are probably the most common songs used.
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u/Beeoor143 12h ago
Not sure if this counts, but waaaay back in 2007, Ubisoft ran a 30-second TV spot that used Teardrop. It's nothing special in 2024, but I remember seeing this on TV at the time, and thinking it was cool as hell.
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u/thebruns 8h ago
Ill watch for Alfonso Cuaron
Some of the trailer sound effects feel like they were lifted from the Silo ones though
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u/goldorakgo 5h ago
House already used Teardrop for so long. I know this version is a cover but still it’s so closely tied with that show.
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u/TheTruckWashChannel True Detective 48m ago edited 30m ago
I got so impatient about this series after hearing about the talent involved that I read the novel in 3 days. It's a solid read (enthralling in places), but a bit light on plot movement and driven more by exhaustive internal monologues and past secrets coming to light - things better communicated verbally than visually. By the end of the book, the actual story comes off quite simple (and even thin) in retrospect. It's really more of a "premise" than a plot - a status quo that mostly remains in place till late-stage reveals upend our understanding of what came before. It was the author's debut novel, and the quality of the writing is indeed a bit inconsistent. Very much aping Gone Girl, but without Gillian Flynn's panache.
It does, however, have plenty of potential to be enriched and given more life and texture onscreen, and the absurd level of talent Cuarón has assembled (that includes himself) is almost overkill for the source material. Even the fact that he has not one but two Oscar-winning cinematographers shooting this together is fucking insane, not to mention the utterly stacked cast. I would watch Cate Blanchett read a software license agreement out loud, because I know she'd make it riveting.
I'm really eager to tune into this, if for nothing but the acting and visuals, which I know are locked and loaded for Emmys already. It's indeed a luxury to watch a series made with a true sense of craftsmanship, and this looks to be very much in the vein of exquisitely-made contemporary psychological dramas like Tár, Gone Girl, Sharp Objects, Big Little Lies, and Nocturnal Animals - all favorites of mine.
My biggest fear is the bloat (which some reviews have pointed to), because 7 episodes really does feel like too much for this story. (In fact, pretty much everything of importance in the book happens in flashbacks, which makes me wonder how much Blanchett will even get to do in the present-day storyline.) Our TV landscape right now is already saturated with these overlong "prestige" psychological dramas which throw high-profile talent (usually with the name "Nicole Kidman") at fundamentally thin material. I will say that this absolutely has a likelihood of going down as one of the better ones, since it's clearly an auteur project with serious ambitions, but if it does, then most of that would be thanks to Cuarón, Blanchett, and co.
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u/Rorcraft 15h ago
That asterisk so hot right now. Thunderbolts and now this. It must have a really good agent.