Bully Wee Villa Posted June 24, 2021 Share Posted June 24, 2021 6 hours ago, Antlion said: The first yin? Yep. As you say, far too self aware. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustOneCornetto Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 Decent enough start to the new series. I tend to miss some of the subtleties on first viewing so going to listen to the pdcast then give it another watch. They certainly pushed the boat out, literally, in terms of the challenges of producing an episode set mostly in the middle of a lake on a dilapidated pedalo. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy boo Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 Decent enough start to the new series. I tend to miss some of the subtleties on first viewing so going to listen to the pdcast then give it another watch. They certainly pushed the boat out, literally, in terms of the challenges of producing an episode set mostly in the middle of a lake on a dilapidated pedalo.I listened to the podcast on BBC sounds for the first time and found it quite informative. Especially about the ending as I can be a bit thick at times. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Stanton Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 A touch of The Wicker Man about that episode. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted May 3, 2022 Share Posted May 3, 2022 Link A U.S remake?! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted May 3, 2022 Share Posted May 3, 2022 (edited) Sussed that was going to be a Wicker Man homage right away, but didn't detract from it. Good episode Lots of little nods if you watch back....Mr Hardy (Robin Hardy directed Wicker), the Harvest photo, the class giggling was very reminiscent of the Wicker classroom scene, one of the kids drawings was the same as the film i'm sure. Bee motif a nod to the Cage one? Edited May 3, 2022 by Christophe 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustOneCornetto Posted May 3, 2022 Share Posted May 3, 2022 Yeah pretty creepy episode and they also considered making Tom the same character from an earlier episode Tom & Gerri which would have have been good 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishBhoy Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 I’ve only seen episode one so far and didn’t think it was up to much, certainly when compared to previous episodes. As someone else said though, it’s always worth a second watch to catch some of the more subtle dialogue. Good to see Mark Gattiss involved in the episode too, I did wonder if there had been a bit of a falling out between him, Shearsmith and Pemberton but seems not. Seeing those three together has put me in the mind to go and watch League of Gentlemen again. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy boo Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 Last night's was pretty poor by their standards. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 (edited) I enjoyed it, kinda more Black Mirrorish than the usual IN9 fare. Listening to the podcast afterwards reveals that the twist was that Matilda is still fictional but has found a way to get one over the author for rejecting them as characters which I didn't think came over very well the way it was written, I came out of it assuming Matilda was the real author and Pemberton's author was another character Edited May 13, 2022 by Christophe 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 On 03/05/2022 at 03:20, Christophe said: Link A U.S remake?! If Pemberton and Shearsmith are involved, I'd be more than happy to give it a try. They're geniuses. (Though I wasn't that mad on this week's episode). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antlion Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 I love this show but tend to find the episodes drawn from their own careers/experiences a bit duller (though still very watchable TV). Episodes about writing and writers/TV production/acting just don’t do it for me (with the exception of The Devil of Christmas) - it feels like the humour in these stems from in-jokes that non-writers/non-actors/non-TV production staff aren’t going to get (or at least I don’t!). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Stanton Posted May 19, 2022 Share Posted May 19, 2022 The standard has definitely dropped. Kid/Nap just wasn't to the same level as the previous episodes in this series and they themselves are light years behind the likes of 12 Days of Christine or Bernie Clifton's Dressing Room. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishBhoy Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 On 19/05/2022 at 22:48, Arch Stanton said: The standard has definitely dropped. Kid/Nap just wasn't to the same level as the previous episodes in this series and they themselves are light years behind the likes of 12 Days of Christine or Bernie Clifton's Dressing Room. I actually quite enjoyed ‘Kid/Nap’, it had a good mix of humour and surrealism about it. I maybe liked it a bit more because a few years ago I fortuitously ended up spending a night with the actor who played the postman/kidnapper (Daniel Mays). I was in a fancy jazz bar in London and after my meal went out for a cigarette and noticed that there was a massive queue of people getting turned away at the door because it was too busy. I got talking to him and his girlfriend (before I realised he was an actor I should say) and they said they were trying to get in. I asked the doorman if they could squeeze in at the table I was at and he agreed. It was only once we got sitting down and he said he was an actor I realised that I had seen him in series one of Line of Duty. He was genuinely one of the soundest people I’ve ever met, we got extremely drunk and had a great night, and he settled about 80% of mine and my girlfriends bill without me knowing. I also ended up speaking to the well known UK rapper ‘Dave’ on the phone. I mentioned I was a big fan of Dave and he said he was friends with him, phoned him and put me on the phone he probably never understood a word with the accent I have but a good memory. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 Thought the Diane Morgan one was really good, and the Wicker Man pastiche was superb, but haven't really enjoyed either of the last two. Still, anthology programmes, by their nature, will always have some you like a lot more than others so not really worried that the standard is dropping. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2022/inside-no-9-series-8-and-9 Two more series' commissioned 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 Great news. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Stanton Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 Fucking hell, that was pretty dark. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 (edited) Yeah, felt uncomfortable watching that at times. It was still excellent, but exactly fun. Edited June 2, 2022 by Bully Wee Villa 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 Wise Owl is one hell of a deep dive call back to a single joke in the League of Gentlemen book 22 years ago. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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