Inside Number 9 - Series 5

[CaptainHammer]

Starts tonight! 🎉
10pm BBC 2

Most good. Wasn’t sure if the magician one

Slightly confusing

Tonight's was definitely back on form. Scary and moving.

I'll have to rewatch the magician episode. I think I missed a lot.

Miss when was it off form?

I found singing lady too high pitched for my ears!

Tonight’s episode was superb! Maxine Peake is a tremendous actress and a great choice for that role.

Misswhen was it off form?

It hasn't been really- just that tonight's episode was so strong.

Amazing episode. I think it'd the little bits inbetween. Eg the pinboard with the names on. So you KNOW there's something going on but not what it is!

I really need to watch that again....pretty sure I think that after every episode. So clever. And the influencer character was absolutely unbelievably well observed/executed. Amazing stuff!

Just caught up on last nights episode that was a brilliant episode so clever and well written like them all. It took a wee minute for the penny to drop. I love when they reel us in then pull the rug at the last minute. What did you all think of last nights episode

Got to be honest, I wasn't a fan of the last episode. I suspect it's because I have a bit of an issue with the dramatisation of disturbed Ed Gein-type serial killers and think using disassociative personality disorder as a trope is distasteful. It's a very controversial diagnosis and created a bit of a storm back in the day, the initial "case" was later discovered to be a hoax, as far as I can remember.

I also thought using the visually impaired actress as a "symbol" for an aspect of psychological distress was a bit off.

I didn't notice a visually impaired actor but I was knitting at the time. I realised early on what was happening, though, because of the anagram names. I didn't enjoy this as much as previous ones.

Was the gospel singer visually impaired? Should it even be important? She was a singer so the sight issue was irrelevant I think.

The lack of sight was relevant because her father told her to forget what she had seen as a child, (I think) so she sang to herself to pretend she didn't hear what was going on- at least that was my take on it.

I wasn't enormously keen on what I thought was a stigmatisation of a mental health issue, and I thought the Galen character was a bit of a misfire. I appreciate that it must be difficult to keep the format fresh, and I would still rather see attempts at originality that don't quite work for me, than the same old thing over and over again. I know that Steve and Reece don't like Black Mirror comparisons but that point is why I think Inside No 9 is ultimately the better of the two. Perhaps I need to watch it again and pay more attention to the anagrams erc.

Steve Pemberton has tweeted a response regarding the use of violence in a dissociative personality disorder storyline.

‘Good question - yes we did the research and much of what we wrote is factually correct, but I was worried about the thing ending with violence which is a cliche of DID - so apologies if that offended anyone. It's because it's a No9.’

Raahh...good point.

Bit confusing but ok

Think the first series are better - more original

One of those episodes where I thought they’d gone off track but then whoomph it all turns and you realise that no, they have stayed exactly where they wanted to be.
Galen was clashingly cartoony, but then he would be, because he was her interpretation of violent vengeance. And the vlogger was trivial and irritatingly upbeat and sunny because that’s what she tried to be. And the dying father, in a Jamesian study promising protection beyond the grave....
Just superb.

Owed a huge amount to the film Identity though!

Thought it was so clever, and so well-acted.

It really reminded me of a crap Sidney sheldon book I read when I was a teenager.

Oh I love a crap Sidney Sheldon, or did as a teen...do you remember which it was by any chance?

It's called "tell me your dreams" @AutumnRose1

thanks Jop!

Last one was too dark for me.
Also agree about the killing of the wife in the Magician episode. Magician didn't give a shit about his wife, so her dying meant nothing to him, only that he would go down for murder - wish they had thought of a different re-solution to this.