Inside No. 9

Shearsmith can’t help looking shifty in most of his roles – but the writing and performances were so engaging that it hardly mattered. T...

At the risk of sounding like some awful, jargon-bound media studies lecturer – precisely the kind of person those I’m writing about migh...

The best bit, when Steve Pemberton’s character described another of the referees as "Linesman Minnelli" for his habit of crying through...

And in a time when both the anthology series and the half-hour drama are gaining steamamong critics and audiences, it feels necessary to ackno...

Other writers really would have reached a point of exhaustion there, but Pemberton and Shearsmith also fit in references to the audience at ho...

Yes, episodes still feel overlong, but the stakes seem real again and the world genuinely terrifying, far more in keeping with the show’s Stephen K...

It is a delight that Inside No 9 (BBC2) is "coming home" to BBC2 and that they have kicked off their run of six episodes in excellent for...

You’re never sure where you are or what you’re looking at, the cleverness and inventiveness of the writers wilfully shading into self-c...

It is so enjoyably far-fetched and encompasses tragedy, comedy and resolution in 30 packed minutes.

It’s testimony to the top-notch acting and the perfectly-pitched dialogue that the 30-minute episode kept you interested right to the end.

Inside No. 9 remains a masterpiece of nearly flawless capsules that all play with format and rules in different, boundary-pushing ways.

Although I could see that it was clever, I found it one of their least engaging episodes (and many, let’s be clear, are pure genius).

Each episode is a self-contained jaunt through often excruciating suspense, punctuated with bursts of humor and concluding with a twist t...

Inside No 9 is consistently so very, very good.

This macabre tale of mental illness was the weakest installment of the year so far. Even so, the rare misfire still packed in more imaginative idea...

The anthology series' uncomfortable mix of humour and horror is at times reminiscent of Psychovillean characters and tinges, but occupies a ge...