No, never seen it, or read the book ( books?) Have to watch it someday.
Over the top caricature, and Clara from Doctor Who is underused in the story.
Kitchen-sink drama without any particular surprises, but that itself was a surprise. They outfoxed me again.
Very clever and suspenseful, and the final trick is well-timed. I wonder if a top 10 best episodes is going to look different from a top 10 best twists, but I think this story fits both categories.
An interesting puzzle but it's the various characters that makes it extra entertaining, especially Angel the influencer (obvs!).
Fabulous, misleading and also very sad, for some reason.
Death Be Not Proud- Maureen and David Sowerbutts two of many OTT characters in the murder mystery dark comedy that is Psychoville. David a " fan" of serial killers re-enacts grisly murders aided by Mother, whilst a psycho blackmailer links ex patients from a mental institution, including David. Worth a watch. Couple of weird and wonderful clips below.
I think my issue with this episode is that character comedy and situational comedy usually don't mix very well, and I've seen it in many other sitcoms.
This could be interesting but is it really going to make a difference in Inside No 9? I've already watched several episodes featuring only two or three actors, and some of these episodes are my favourites.
I don't have a big opinion on this one but Scaramouche is very funny.
This seems to be a dig at the angry Game Of Thrones fandom but it also made me think of a recent Doctor Who discussion here on tellytalk.
Oooh....this is brilliant. Just when I thought it would end like an Hitchcockian romance something big and unexpected happens.
Don't know for sure, but eps 2 +3 both with cast of 3 in a single set, they obviously did a good job despite restrictions.
Ah yes, I hadn't considered that part of the production.
I could have watched this for hours and hours. Adrian Dunbar plays an unfriendly version of himself, I hope this won't affect my opinion of Ted Hastings when I'm going to re/watch Line Of Duty.
More thriller than comedy this time, a modern "Brian Clemens" as it were.
Funny that the first episode of this series mentions "here comes the sub-plot" while the last episode is built on various subplots that makes it one beautiful whole.
At the beginning I wondered if it was going to be something like the American film Deliverance (1972), in the middle it becomes a story of disillusionment (as we often see in the "reunion" genre) and then it ends with the supernatural ferryman. I struggle to connect the dots but overall it's enjoyable for what it is.
Quite cleverly, the first part focuses on the peculiar teaching skills of the new teacher, followed by the second diversion of a possible molestation charge.
Oooh, Russian Doll effect, I love that! Nice references to various tropes, like the police woman who wants to have her cliché ending by throwing her badge in the river Thames (I think that's what she said, or, as Michael Scott would put it "That's what she said!").
Over-the-top twisty including a mini-homage to the "who got shot during the struggle with the gun". It's him! No wait, it's the other one, Jason Isaacs!
An episode about domestic drama is inherently interesting therefore I was in a good double-O place regardless double-S of what the story had to say.
Very creepy and dark, both in story-telling and cinematography, especially the mock public information parts.
Where did you post it, and how do you know about the history of that story if it's not in the story itself?
If you remember the so called live episode Deadline that appeared to be haunted by ghosts, when of course it was a set up by Shearsmith and Pemberton. Another piece of trickery by the boys involved series 8 ep 5. The Radio Times, the BBC tv listings magazine, ran a preview of the episode, including interviews and pictures. A deception, what we got was ....?
Could this be inspired by Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now ? Or maybe Doctor Who, I think there are several stories with characters being in the past and the present/the present and the future at the same time.
Steve Pemberton almost goofed because I could see he tried very hard not to laugh (and it is the funniest moment in this episode).
Friday 13th disaster parodies have been done before so we all knew it was going end seriously badly for one of them, probably the wife because she didn't take it seriously and therefore she had to be punished.
Ah-ha! They must have anticipated that the audience would automatically assume that the Lonely Hearts victims were women. Being familiar with the twisty nature of the programme I had considered, briefly, the idea that she herself was the killer - but I couldn't imagine how or why.
Well obviously I wasn't the victim of the hoax, but even so I was thinking, I'm playing a DVD to watch a lame quiz show. It looks exactly like the real thing and it goes on and on and I was waiting for something to fall apart, team 2 and team 3 seemed the most likely victims.
The idea of a 9-year revenge plan is hilarious (not to mention the far-fetched reason) but perhaps it's overshadowed by too much hatefulness.
See? Just crap.
I don't think I can do it. Right now it feels like "all of series 9 + four episodes from previous series". Instead I'll do a top ten favourite twist endings.
I've been youtubing various commentary videos - of course they all got the best-to-worst episode ranking wrong *seethes* - and the feeling about this particular episode seems as unanimous as internet opinions can be. And yet somehow I couldn't let it go. In fact, I'm beginning to think it might be the best episode of the whole series. Or the most representative episode of what they've tried to achieve (and achieved) with Inside No 9.
He explains the phones (as seen on desk-level view). And why that extra phone indicates that it belongs to an important person.