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  • Inside No. 9 Series 6
  • Drac
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    It’s back next month best comedy TV ever.

    Drac
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    white101
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    May 10th woo and hoo.

    boombang
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    Great news, a smorgasbord of dark comedy. I love everything Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith have produced (that I have seen). Whenever I see them in interviews though I can’t help but ponder their smugness and likeability, or lack of. Really weird one and irrelevant given I appreciate the output, but it’s always there niggling. Maybe just me. For reference I am not that likable either.

    Houns
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    IdleJon
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    Whenever I see them in interviews though I can’t help but ponder their smugness and likeability, or lack of.

    Would you expect people who create ‘dark’ work to be cuddly and lovable? I’d expect them to be dark, disturbed individuals themselves. (In the case of these two, I haven’t noticed their lack of likeability though, or smugness, thinking about it.)

    Drac
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    Oh! Sorry Houns I’ve done a bad post.

    sadexpunk
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    dont forget…….

    P20
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    I nearly did forget. Just caught the reminder. Timer set!

    Drac
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    Well that’s the worst one they’ve done.

    sadexpunk
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    Noooooo…..I thought it was ace!

    P20
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    Yeah, that was a bit disappointing. Think I’ve either missed something or I need the podcast to explain

    chriscubed
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    I enjoyed that, lighter than others.nit won’t stop me sleeping.

    Didn’t get the last scene though

    BigJohn
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    I’m feeling a bit uneducated as I can’t recall which classic play this is a riff on. Maybe a Shakespeare where the 4th wall is broken.

    failedengineer
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    My OH spotted that it was based on some Italian classic comedy, possibly mediaeval?

    Drac
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    Yeah the masks suggested it was based on some play but it was too pantomime like, maybe intended, but if it really was a poor one.

    richardkennerley
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    I read it was based on a traditional style of play that would always have the same type of character, a captain, a rogue, a harlequin etc. That combined with a heist movie. Then on top of that contrasting being “clever” with knob gags and jokes about bumming.

    DezB
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    Didn’t work for me, lasted 10 minutes.

    curto80
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    Did my head in. I rewatched all 5 series over the last few weeks in prep, but I’m too thick to get this one.

    nickjb
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    It was great. Very meta, exactly the sort of thing they should be doing imo.

    DezB
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    I always lose interest with that talking to camera / 4th wall shite. Just find it annoying.

    P20
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    Listening to the podcast it sounded to me like a thesp thing that they wanted to do. Bit lost on me tbh

    Houns
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    Enjoyed it, ok admit wasn’t the best one. Though I thought Pemberton was playing two characters 🤦🏻‍♂️

    mahalo
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    phew. so glad it wasnt just me who struggled… i love the show so much i was forcing myself to enjoy it!

    b33k34
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    It was great. Very meta, exactly the sort of thing they should be doing imo.

    I’m with that. I didn’t get all the references (but going to listen to the inside inside podcast later which will likely explain) but very clever. Watched most of it twice last night (we were 3/4 through when someone else arrived so watched from the start again)

    edit
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commedia_dell%27arte – yes, that helps

    Ro5ey
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    Don’t over thinking it.

    To me it was a Shakespeare’s version of Reservoir Dogs.

    Enjoy the bits you get, don’t worry about the bits you don’t.

    The genius is it works on many different levels … bit like Toy Story is for kids and adults alike, this episode was for cultured adults and then the rest of us … LOL

    I’d imagine you could watch the episode again and again and find different thing in it every
    time you watch it.

    Looking forward to next week …. Motherland before it, is also also pretty good.

    Drac
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    Enjoy the bits you get, don’t worry about the bits you don’t.

    I go the Reservoir  Dogs reference but I still didn’t enjoy it.

    timmys
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    I enjoyed it, but I’m simple. All very meta and reference-y, eg. the shout of “stop Fleabagging” during one of the 4th wall breaks.

    howsyourdad1
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     best comedy TV ever.

    Not sure what Alan or Larry woukd say about that but thanks for the reminder.

    b33k34
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    Motherland before it, is also also pretty good.

    so many good lines in that. “that was a terrible limerick Anne”

    slowoldman
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    It was brilliant. Reminiscent of “Zanzibar” from series 4.

    b33k34
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    And the podcast is well worth a listen.

    curto80
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    So much better tonight. Didn’t miss the unintelligible attempt at a deliberately awful Italian accent.

    Pook
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    Excellent tonight. And nice to see Nick Mohammed who is a friend of a friend*

    Not very subtle Game of Thrones references

    *went to uni with a mate. Saw him at Edinburgh in 2006 or something.  Very remote connection

    sadexpunk
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    So much better tonight.

    Excellent tonight.

    just goes to show doesnt it. me and the wife just watched it and didnt really enjoy it, thought it was a bit boring. preferred last weeks.

    Not very subtle Game of Thrones references

    never watched it, so would that be why, cos we didnt get any of the references?

    docrobster
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    Just watched the first 2 from this series. Much preferred the first one. I am one of the few people who has never watched a mi Ute of game of thrones so the second one was all a bit wasted on me.

    P20
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    Episode two, Much better IMO. Back to what i expected.

    never watched GOT either…

    Drac
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    Much better episode tonight back on form tonight, no need to have seen GOT.

    curto80
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    Agreed, never seen a minute of GoT but I know enough about the reaction to the ending to get the analogy.

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