Series five took Inside No. 9 to new and unusual places: the changing room at a premier league football match, a Louisiana prison, a cemetery at night, Wood Green… In fan-treat episode ‘Death Be Not Proud’, it even revisited an old haunt. Co-creators Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith welcomed new guest stars including David Morrissey, Ralf Little, Jenna Coleman, Phil Davis and Maxine Peake.
The series earned Bafta nominations for Best Scripted Comedy and Best Male Performance in a Comedy Programme, to go with Steve Pemberton’s 2019 Bafta win for the previous series. It offered laughter, tears, blood, a gristly beheading, and most of all, it offered variety. Streaming now on BBC iPlayer in the UK, find all the series five episode details and links to our spoiler-filled reviews below.
The Referee’s a W***er
Directed by: Matt Lipsey
Guest cast: David Morrissey, Ralf Little, Dipo Ola, Steve Speirs...
The series earned Bafta nominations for Best Scripted Comedy and Best Male Performance in a Comedy Programme, to go with Steve Pemberton’s 2019 Bafta win for the previous series. It offered laughter, tears, blood, a gristly beheading, and most of all, it offered variety. Streaming now on BBC iPlayer in the UK, find all the series five episode details and links to our spoiler-filled reviews below.
The Referee’s a W***er
Directed by: Matt Lipsey
Guest cast: David Morrissey, Ralf Little, Dipo Ola, Steve Speirs...
- 5/13/2021
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
This Inside No. 9 review contains spoilers.
Inside No. 9 Series 5 Episode 5
If Inside No. 9 was a takeaway pizza company, it’d go bust inside a week; what’s on the menu is so rarely what’s delivered.
Take the opening to this episode. A sentimental piano score follows an old man to a front door. Surrounded by hearts, we watch him awkwardly record an online dating video that shows him to be unreconstructed and rough around the edges but – as the musical prompts tell us – endearingly so. A widower looking for a lady friend. Bless. All signs point to rom-com sweetness.
25 minutes later and we’re watching that same man bleed to death from multiple stab wounds after one of Inside No. 9’s most complicated and ambitious stories yet. The sweetness and Alan Bennett-isms were just a disguise. The real story is another murder-revenge played out...
Inside No. 9 Series 5 Episode 5
If Inside No. 9 was a takeaway pizza company, it’d go bust inside a week; what’s on the menu is so rarely what’s delivered.
Take the opening to this episode. A sentimental piano score follows an old man to a front door. Surrounded by hearts, we watch him awkwardly record an online dating video that shows him to be unreconstructed and rough around the edges but – as the musical prompts tell us – endearingly so. A widower looking for a lady friend. Bless. All signs point to rom-com sweetness.
25 minutes later and we’re watching that same man bleed to death from multiple stab wounds after one of Inside No. 9’s most complicated and ambitious stories yet. The sweetness and Alan Bennett-isms were just a disguise. The real story is another murder-revenge played out...
- 3/2/2020
- by John Saavedra
- Den of Geek
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