Warning: this Inside No. 9 review contains spoilers.
A stranded pedalo! Glorious. It’s taken almost 40 episodes, but Inside No. 9 has finally landed on the purest distillation of its ‘contained space’ concept. They will never better a pedalo. A pedalo is a punchline before you’ve even written a word, which is what makes it a divine backdrop for a script about grief, loss, regrets and the messiness of once-close friendships that have – literally here – drifted. Set this same story in a cabin or a car and it’s just bleakness and tension that takes a bittersweet turn. Set it on a pedalo and it’s all that plus the absurdity of a pedalo, which makes it very Inside No. 9.
‘Merrily, Merrily’ is very Inside No. 9 in its weird sandwich of paint-can shits, Judge Rinder gags and a vision of the afterlife as taken from Greek myth.
A stranded pedalo! Glorious. It’s taken almost 40 episodes, but Inside No. 9 has finally landed on the purest distillation of its ‘contained space’ concept. They will never better a pedalo. A pedalo is a punchline before you’ve even written a word, which is what makes it a divine backdrop for a script about grief, loss, regrets and the messiness of once-close friendships that have – literally here – drifted. Set this same story in a cabin or a car and it’s just bleakness and tension that takes a bittersweet turn. Set it on a pedalo and it’s all that plus the absurdity of a pedalo, which makes it very Inside No. 9.
‘Merrily, Merrily’ is very Inside No. 9 in its weird sandwich of paint-can shits, Judge Rinder gags and a vision of the afterlife as taken from Greek myth.
- 4/20/2022
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
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