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: 116
Press clippings Page 42
Witch trials, office karaoke, snuff films, party games, incestuous cannibalism: no subject matter is too terrible, or trivial, for Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith's hair-raisingly inventive anthology series. With help from a rotating cast of acting aristocracy, The League of Gentlemen[/c duo have spent three series battering down the divisions between comedy, horror and drama. However, one episode towers above the rest: the Sheridan Smith-starring 12 Days of Christine is one of the most profoundly evocative half-hours of TV ever made.
Rachel Aroesti, The Guardian, 20th August 2017Forget the cry-laugh: Inside No 9's creators perfected the vomit-laugh with an emetic twist in the season three episode The Riddle of the Sphinx. Pemberton's Cambridge don, after some already-nasty japes where a colleague (Shearsmith) forces him to eat flesh cut from the buttock of a just-murdered student (Alexandra Roach), is told that he is, in fact, her father. He's chewing his dead daughter's arse! Steve, Reece, get help. No, wait: finish season four. Then get help.
Jack Seale, The Guardian, 8th August 2017Inside No. 9, season 3 review
Where the writing really succeeds in Inside No. 9 is the slow unveiling of the characters' secrets.
Anglonerd, 20th July 2017Review: Inside No. 9
Inside No. 9 can be dramatic, comedic and genuinely terrifying: episodes quickly lurch from physical comedy and toilet gags to intense moments of drama or terror.
Richard Tudor, The Oxford Student, 28th April 2017The ending that was cut from 'Diddle Diddle Dumpling'
In the DVD/blu-ray audio commentary for Inside No. 9 series three episode 'Diddle Diddle Dumpling', Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton reveal that the episode originally had a longer ending.
The Velvet Onion, 17th April 2017Inside No. 9 Series 4 guest stars revealed
The list of stars that will appear in Series 4 of Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith's Inside No. 9 have been revealed.
British Comedy Guide, 7th April 2017Inside No. 9 Season 3 Episode 6 review
In such a small cast, it's a challenge to keep the mystery going, but there are enough misleads and meaningful glances to confuse everyone, and once the villain is revealed (slightly earlier than you might expect), it matters not.
Andrew Allen, Cult Box, 7th April 2017Inside No. 9 Review: Series Three: 'Private View'
More than any other Inside No. 9 of series three, Private View features Pemberton & Shearsmith wearing an apparel of horror and thriller influences on their collaborative sleeve.
Dodo's Words, 5th April 2017DVD review: Inside No. 9 - Series Three
To say the penultimate episode of the series Diddle Diddle Dumpling dealing with a husband obsession with a stray number nine shoe which he has found, is the weakest of these six episodes is no insult. The standard is very high.
Chris Hallam's World View, 30th March 2017Review: Inside No. 9, Series 3
The anthology show with a mad cocktail of genres. Radical, bizarre, and a show you've definitely been missing out on.
Georgia Owen, Nouse, 28th March 2017