The third episode of this season of "Inside Number Nine" is a clever, if perhaps slightly too meta for its own good addition to the series.
Katrina (Sophie Okonedo) is a hard boiled, no nonsense, Police Detective. Downing Vodka with her Coco pops for breakfast, she's joined by Ezra (Steve Pemberton) who helps her go over the details of her latest case, the disappearance of a young boy. If that all sound a little cliché the writers are way ahead of you.
I don't put spoilers in my reviews, so this might need to be carefully danced around, as saying pretty much anything else about the plot of the episode is a spoiler. I will say that, thematically, it harks back to the "League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse" in some of its ideas, though the execution is very different. That a twist from that initial conceit is coming won't be a surprise - the way that the twists were built on worked for me, to a point, but the ending didn't work that well, and calling out the ending not working very well within said ending doesn't make up for it.
The three guest stars are all good though, and Okonedo, Siobhan Redmond and Robin Weaver all get to show a couple of different sides to their characters before their stories end.
It's a humorous, clever episodes, with some horror moments, but crucially not perhaps strong enough of any one of those three aspects to make this anything more than a standard episode.
Katrina (Sophie Okonedo) is a hard boiled, no nonsense, Police Detective. Downing Vodka with her Coco pops for breakfast, she's joined by Ezra (Steve Pemberton) who helps her go over the details of her latest case, the disappearance of a young boy. If that all sound a little cliché the writers are way ahead of you.
I don't put spoilers in my reviews, so this might need to be carefully danced around, as saying pretty much anything else about the plot of the episode is a spoiler. I will say that, thematically, it harks back to the "League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse" in some of its ideas, though the execution is very different. That a twist from that initial conceit is coming won't be a surprise - the way that the twists were built on worked for me, to a point, but the ending didn't work that well, and calling out the ending not working very well within said ending doesn't make up for it.
The three guest stars are all good though, and Okonedo, Siobhan Redmond and Robin Weaver all get to show a couple of different sides to their characters before their stories end.
It's a humorous, clever episodes, with some horror moments, but crucially not perhaps strong enough of any one of those three aspects to make this anything more than a standard episode.