I have some baggage from how vastly different to the book it is (which is never a fair criticism) but I am just really allergic to the tone of it, despite the subject matter it feels like any given British dramedy of the last 20 years. Your mileage may vary though! A lot of people love it.

I am normally a “letting the intro play” guy but I cannot deal with even half a second of the Slow Horses theme.

I think the Chris Stapleton cover was truly huge in the US and happened during the early stages of the (now fully successful) global export of Country so as more audiences (esp in the UK) have come into it as “new” genre to them it’s become a built in modern touchstone. Is my guess.

Like. That’s the whole thing, isn’t it. Makes you wonder why anyone anywhere tried to write anything at all after July 2000.

I’ll say this, it’s an honest to god mess and I will take that over something tidily boring and there’s one really amazing performance in it. But for the most part it just kinda … doesn’t work.

Prufrock: Origins - Legacy (XBox exclusive)

I almost never think about that song but I frequently think about Jay-Z saying they didn’t put it on the album because “you don’t want that shit screaming in your house”