Inside No 9 - series 6

[Largely Babble]

Yes, that's why I liked them, it was that sort of episode. And they were delivered and executed perfectly.

Fair play.

[BeardFaceMan]

You've also got to admire the balls on them for doing an episode filled with those sort of jokes and going all in on it. And pairing it with a comedy style that probably only drama students and teachers are going to understand too (that stuff went over my head anyway), it was a bold move and they pulled it off. A properly silly half hour.

[olliebean]

Nice of them to (WHOLE SERIES SPOILER)

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have the 'supernatural' episode as Ep 5 this year, rather than the traditional Ep 6, really helped the twist hit even further for long-time viewers!

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Just got around to listening to the podcast, and they clearly thought when they recorded it that this one was going to be

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episode 6

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[idunnosomename]

just watched that and I had to say it was great, although my west-facing laptop screen made some of it hard to see, but I'll watch it again. it's how the opening device of the lift paid off I really enjoyed

hardly any laughs but who cares. I suppose there were the references to

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Frozen

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and

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Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

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oh and the other thing that was superb was the soundtrack. the reverby strings, Mozart's Clarinet Concerto as diegesis, and then the big climatic stuff, great stuff. not that there's been a lack of this in other episodes

ps that mock Game of Thrones theme in ep2 - it's based on Kraftwerk - Das Model, isn't it? Is this too obvious to say

[Natnar]

Whilst looking at the list of episodes on Wikipedia it says that Derek Jacobi was the voice of the director in "The Devil Of Christmas". So is he the first non-Steve or Reece person to be in 2 episodes?

I guess technically Dennis Lawson has been in 2 episodes since they showed a bit of A Quiet Night In during the Halloween episode.

[Leej88]

They have used mostly all the British actors in the industry.

[RHX]

For a second there, I thought Reece was Tommy Tiernan

[Excellent_Biscuits]

Fuck were that???

[Largely Babble]

What the actual fuck was that?

[Kankurette]

That was...weird.

[ishantbekeepingit]

It was great, is what it was.  Don't think it was primarily about any political agenda, despite what the previews implied, but it definitely kept me entertained the whole way through.

[Largely Babble]

It was both shit and vile.

[Kankurette]

At least the Remainer guy was also a massive douchebag, I guess. Makes me wish they'd ended the series with How Do You Plead? instead.

[M-CORP]

Well, if you're gonna do a series finale, of course have

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an immigrant shows up who may or may not be Jesus, the little kid overdosing on alcohol, and the family tearing itself apart... only for good old-fashioned patriotic songs to distract everyone and make them forget the more important things happening closer to home.

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Which I think was the point, a warning against being wrapped up in ideology and tradition, as opposed to seeing the world with your own eyes. And as someone who tends to be on the headphones, I sympathised with

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Oliver, and the bit where he had his headphones ripped out

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, relate to that kind of conversation. I really enjoyed that, though some nitpicks - the satire might be a couple of years too late, and the dementia was maybe played too much for laughs (at least until the last 5 minutes).

[Kankurette]

I also sympathised with Oliver as a mard arse teenager who didn't enjoy being made to watch TV with my parents.

[Largely Babble]

I'm still agog. What a patronising piece of othering, utterly unmotivated, unsubtle wank.

[Kankurette]

Yeah, I kind of figured people weren't going to be happy about the pro-Brexit characters. Though like I said, the Remainer character is an arrogant, possibly abusive shitbag so it's not Brexiters = bad, Remainers = good. I mean,

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he's the one who knifed Jesus in the stomach multiple times.

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[JamesTC]

I bet you're hating this on the Cook'd and Bomb'd forum aren't you?

[Captain Z]

Yet another CaB shout out! Some of that dialogue must have been plagiarised from various Brexit threads.

[olliebean]

Not sure that one was worth waiting the extra half hour for, tbh. Unless there's another one I've forgotten, I think that may have been my least favourite episode ever.

Apart from anything else, you could see what was coming a mile off, as soon as

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the fork got put down next to the guy with dementia

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[jobotic]

Shearsmith's character was a lot more unpleasant than Pemberton's wasn't he? The Brexit angle was a bit bollocks but fucking hell if we're not saluting pictures of the Queen in the staff room we're woke traitors these days. These days.

Don't like jokes about women wanting strangers to have their way with them. But

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Jesus

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is a charasmatic chap. Or was it deliberately dated humour at times?

I really enjoyed it despite the flaws.

[DrGreggles]

I probably missed something clever, as I thought that was shite.
Disappointing end to what has been a decent series.

[JamesTC]

Atrocious. Hated it. Sorry Reece.

[idunnosomename]

I think that's the most of a Last Night I've ever seen

I mean I didn't think it was bad. I didn't think it was great either. especially the "I bet you're loving this if you know the dialogue of the Passion from the Gospels" bits, which were so fucking on the nose. oh immigrants, you are like Jesus. Brexiteers and gay Remainers dont know your soft Messianic olive skin

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

Apart from anything else, you could see what was coming a mile off, as soon as

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the fork got put down next to the guy with dementia

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Chekhov's pitchfork.

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I liked that episode. A broad, heightened microcosm of Brexit Britain - it's not as if Reece and Steve were aiming for a piece of subtle sociopolitical satire. It was a big angry farce.*

My only real complaint is Reece's character being

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a closeted homosexual, which struck me as a very dodgy way of explaining why he was so angry and bitter. Although I did like the fact that he turned out to be a total hypocrite when faced with the immigrant character. Again, not subtle, but amusing.

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_{* A bit like Brexit Britain, amiright folks?}

[jobotic]

My only real complaint is Reece's character being

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a closeted homosexual, which struck me as a very dodgy way of explaining why he was so angry and bitter. Although I did like the fact that he turned out to be a total hypocrite when faced with the immigrant character. Again, not subtle, but amusing.

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They've used that idea before haven't they? Bit tiresome.

[idunnosomename]

yeah, last week

[ishantbekeepingit]

Was Reece meant to be closeted last week?   He seemed pretty open to me.

[JamesTC]

He was a closeted

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murderer

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last week.

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

Was Reece meant to be closeted last week?   He seemed pretty open to me.

Reece's character in last week's episode definitely wasn't trying to disguise his sexual orientation. Him being gay had nothing to do with

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murdering a boy in the playground; I really don't think they were trying to imply that his sexuality was a factor in that

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