Sid
- Stand-up comedian
Press clippings Page 55
Review: Inside No. 9, 1.6 - 'The Harrowing'
The Harrowing was a splendid half-hour of creepiness and rich atmosphere, punctured by occasional jokes and silly lines.
Dan Owen, Dan's Media Digest, 13th March 2014Residents of Stella's filming location are 'fed up'
Stella fans may be welcoming the news that the comedy drama is returning for a fourth series - but one family who live where it's filmed say "enough is enough".
Carrie Evans, Wales Online, 12th March 2014Preview: Inside No 9 - The Harrowing, BBC Two
Draw the curtains, turn off the light. It's the last Inside No. 9, sob, and it's a genuine fright fest.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 12th March 2014TV review: Inside No. 9 - 'The Harrowing'
After six episodes, there's little more to be said about the quality of the writing, the pitch-perfect delivery of the performances, the matchless pleasure of anticipating a brand new story every week, like a series of fiendish, hilarious Christmases, but what can be said about The Harrowing is this; the abrupt, abject revulsion of it is wretch-inducing.
Nic Wright, Giggle Beats, 12th March 2014Review: Inside No. 9 - 'The Understudy'
This was another strong episode that was even more confined than usual.
Dan Owen, Dan's Media Digest, 6th March 2014Inside No. 9 review - The Understudy
The Understudy, and the series overall, is a big two-fingers to television executives that believe anthology shows fail to engage audiences, due to the short episodes, illustrating that it's quality of material, not quantity, that matters.
Nic Wright, Giggle Beats, 6th March 2014Preview: Inside No 9: The Understudy, BBC2
This is very much Pemberton and Shearsmith's instalment and they are both brilliant, with one playing an actor on their way up, the other one on their way down.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 3rd March 2014Inside No. 9 review
It helps that Pemberton and Shearsmith are such accomplished actors (so complete are their performances, they seem hardly to be acting at all) and that they've signed up so many excellent actors to co-star. Yet it's the writing that's most amazing: the sheer mechanics of the thing.
Rachel Cooke, The New Statesman, 28th February 2014Inside No. 9 - Episode 4 review
Anthology shows rarely hit home runs every single week, but I wouldn't call Last Gasp a bad episode... it was just difficult to develop as a narrative.
Dan Owen, Dan's Media Digest, 27th February 2014Inside No. 9 is scarily funny
Each half-hour playlet is a chiselled gem, as dark as ink and frighteningly funny.
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 27th February 2014