Inside No. 9
- TV comedy drama
- BBC Two
- 2014 - 2024
- 55 episodes (9 series)
Dark comedy anthology series from Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton. Each episode focuses on the goings-on around something to do with the number 9.
Streaming rank this week: 115
Press clippings Page 17
What a laugh Adrian Dunbar has in Inside No 9. He plays himself, playing a cop. Not that cop - not Ted Hastings - but a detective in a true crime drama shooting in a dreary caravan park.
The crime in question is a baby-snatch from 20 years before, hardly ready-made gag material, but you know these No 9 boys - they love a macabre challenge. This week's episode, Hurry Up and Wait, is creepy enough to remind me of those old Alfred Hitchcock Presents until Dunbar bursts into the green room in a truly hideous jacket. The man has just been in Line of Duty, the biggest show around, and yet is as insecure as the next actor. Reece Shearsmith is a bit-parter playing alongside him. Dunbar nicks all of his dialogue, leaving him with just a head-nod, face unseen, and proceeds to ham it up something terrible: "I really think we've got the bastard!"
Aidan Smith, The Scotsman, 5th June 2021Review: Inside No. 9 - Hurry Up And Wait
A claustrophobic and unsettling watch.
Luke, The Custard TV, 1st June 2021TV: Inside No 9, Hurry Up And Wait, BBC Two
The world of TV criticism is in danger of running out of superlatives when it comes to Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton's Inside No 9.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 31st May 2021Inside No 9: Hurry Up And Wait review
This week's episode of Inside No 9 hit that sweet spot between spookiness and humour that Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton are so good at finding. And a large part of that is down to the very game guest stars, playing against type.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 31st May 2021Inside No. 9 review: Hurry Up And Wait
Line Of Duty's Adrian Dunbar plays himself in a deliberately uncomfortable blend of comedy and true crime drama that plays with Inside No. 9's twist tradition. Spoilers.
Louisa Mellor, Den Of Geek, 31st May 2021Inside No. 9 review: Adrian Dunbar was an absolute hoot
The Line Of Duty star sent himself up marvellously in an episode that had strong echoes of The League Of Gentlemen.
Anita Singh, The Telegraph, 31st May 2021Inside No. 9 review: Hurry Up and Wait
Hurry Up And Wait is yet another excellent episode of Inside No. 9.
Nick Bartlett, Critical Popcorn, 31st May 2021A League Of Gentlemen encounter inspired Episode 4
The true story of how an encounter on the set of The League Of Gentlemen inspired this week's episode of Inside No. 9.
Lauren O'Neill, BBC, 31st May 2021TV preview: Inside No. 9, Lip Service, BBC Two
One of the many takeaways from this week's episode, Lip Service, is that it's so different to the last two episodes in the current series of Inside No 9.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 24th May 2021Inside No. 9: Lip Service review
One of the more subdued entries in the Inside No 9 canon, Lip Service takes place in a gloomy and uninviting hotel room where Felix, a sad data entry manager, is holed up.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 24th May 2021