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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Apr 17, 2015 15:49:09 GMT
Last night's episode, "Cold Comfort," was a minor masterpiece. Highly recommended. Agreed, but I reckon that goes for all of them to date. Personal favourite of new series is the second and arguably darkest episode of the lot, The Twelve Days Of Christine. David Warner seemed to be enjoying himself in last week's out and out funny (if still bleak) The Trial Of Elizabeth Gadge. "The Twelve Days of Christine" seemed a bit too familiar to me. (Arguably, this is true of "Cold Comfort" as well, but I thought it was extremely effective.) It was very nice to see David Warner again, but I never like it when they {Spoiler}both depict the cruelty and irrationality of witch-finders and have there be real witches after all.
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Post by dem bones on Apr 18, 2015 4:12:33 GMT
"The Twelve Days of Christine" seemed a bit too familiar to me. I'm sure that's true, but I don't really get to watch a lot of films or even TV these days, so it was novel to me. {Spoiler}... that was mrs. dem's criticism of the episode, too.
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Post by Shrink Proof on Apr 18, 2015 9:04:44 GMT
Verdict so far....
"La Couchette" was good and I'll never buy shoes from Next again. Or travel by couchette. "The 12 Days of Christine" might well have been derivative, but the writers' ability to tie up loose ends (which at the time don't even look like loose ends) was well to the fore. As good as the best from series 1. "The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge" was more of a comedy and more lightweight somehow. Agree, David Warner had lots of fun (and most of the best lines). "Cold Comfort" was terrific. Really gave me a shake. Best yet and really quite brilliant. The CCTV was an inspired move.
As well as Pemberton and Shearsmith's creations, a very impressive range of actors. Top notch TV.
Just my 2p-worth...
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Apr 18, 2015 10:08:03 GMT
"Cold Comfort" was terrific. Really gave me a shake. Best yet and really quite brilliant. The CCTV was an inspired move. I admire the shamelessly underhanded way they {Spoiler}conceal the identity of "Chloe." When we first hear her it is clearly a woman speaking.
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Post by Shrink Proof on Apr 18, 2015 13:45:39 GMT
"Cold Comfort" was terrific. Really gave me a shake. Best yet and really quite brilliant. The CCTV was an inspired move. I admire the shamelessly underhanded way they {Spoiler}conceal the identity of "Chloe." When we first hear her it is clearly a woman speaking. In a previous life I really was a shrink. My last job was Consultant Psychiatrist leading a psychiatric crisis team, dealing with everyone who pitched up at the sharp end, from the homicidally psychotic to little old ladies grieving over the death of a cat. They caught the effect that working on the psychiatric front line has on those in mental health very neatly. Not to mention the overlap between those accessing the service and those providing it. And the sudden weird lurches of reality that leave you feeling like a blindfolded man standing upright in a hammock...
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Apr 18, 2015 17:13:47 GMT
And the sudden weird lurches of reality that leave you feeling like a blindfolded man standing upright in a hammock... If you need to talk, we are here to listen to you.
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Post by Shrink Proof on Apr 29, 2015 19:47:34 GMT
And so on to episode 5, "Nana's Party". The only word I can think of is bleak.
Desperately, painfully, excruciatingly bleak. Think Ayckbourn at his most toe-curling, buttock-clenching, suburban-awkward, but taken to the max.
Life. And nothing but...
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Post by franklinmarsh on Aug 21, 2015 14:10:11 GMT
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Post by Shrink Proof on Nov 22, 2016 18:49:14 GMT
OK playmates, a heads up. "Inside No 9" is due back for series three, starting with a Christmas special and running into the New Year. The special seems to tick all the Vault boxes.... The new episode due to be broadcast this December is titled The Devil Of Christmas, which stars Rula Lenska and Jessica Raine alongside Shearsmith and Pemberton. First revealed earlier this year at the Starburst Film Festival, the episode is set around an alpine chalet and involves the horned "half-goat, half-demon" Krampus character from Austro-Bavarian folklore. Set in 1978, it has been filmed by the production team using old 1970s filming equipment as a homage to the era.That, and more from this this webpage.One for the diary I think.
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Post by franklinmarsh on Dec 28, 2016 10:05:31 GMT
Hope everyone got to see The Devil Of Christmas. A rather amazing production that covered an awful lot of subjects.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Dec 28, 2016 15:49:21 GMT
Hope everyone got to see The Devil Of Christmas. A rather amazing production that covered an awful lot of subjects. It was fun! But it is a bit of a disjointed hodge-podge of all sorts of different things.
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Post by Shrink Proof on Dec 28, 2016 16:27:34 GMT
Even allowing for the fact that it had zero competition, this was the best Christmas TV by a country mile. Incredibly well constructed stuff. Apparently they even used vintage 1970s equipment for the filming, some of which only just made it to the end of the three days of shooting. The narrator (Derek Jacobi of all people) making no distinction between the continuity errors and the fact that it was a snuff movie was dead-pan creepy at its very best.
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Post by Shrink Proof on Feb 7, 2017 17:30:01 GMT
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Feb 7, 2017 18:07:48 GMT
Yes, but when is season 3 actually starting? I believe it is already "early 2017."
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Feb 9, 2017 18:12:13 GMT
Series 3 resumes on Tuesday February 21st at 10pm on BBC Two.
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