Inside no 9

[AnneLovesGilbert]

I know I’m very late to the party and I’m sure there are other threads though I couldn’t see one. But bloody hell! It’s absolutely incredible. Heard there was a new season starting so went to the beginning to see if it was any good. I didn’t like League of Gebtleman so didn’t have high hopes. Binged the first season in a couple of evenings and can’t wait for more. Anyone else love it? Does it stay as great through s2 and beyond?

Don’t forget s7 tonight

I’m working as usual but will catch up tomorrow and avoid this thread from 10pm

I really enjoyed this but didn’t get the ending. 🤔

@LizzieSiddal : Google" Charon", from Greek mythology and all should become clear.
I loved tonight's episode.
That fine line between comedy and heart rending tragedy so brilliantly done.

That was good. I had an inking that Bonnie was dead

Thank you Wingedharoy! The ending makes sense now.

Can someone explain it to me.
Was Laurence dead, too?
Bonnie was dead ... but so what?

Are we still looking for a hare?

Yes I didn’t see the hare last night but often i don’t even when looking for it

then someone will say it’s x and I go back and see it 😂

I assuming the other 3 were alive but grim reaper did say they were ok and other side so maybe they died

There’s a podcast on BBC iplayer, the writers take about each episode, just listened to last nights and it gave a lot of insight into the episode. I’d highly recommend.

There’s a podcast on BBC iplayer
Yeah, I know but it's billed as "a treat for League of Gentlemen fans as Mark, Reece and Steve reminisce about their early friendship whilst Diane comes clean about an accidental Amazon over-order." It's 43 minutes long (I always think that it's bonkers that the exposition is longer than the programme ) so it sounds like there's a lot of 'other' before we get to any actual explanations ...

Pretty please.

Laurence was dead, so the others were on the ‘other’ side to him.
I don’t think the person in the trees was Charon, it could have been a fisherman like they said so perhaps they rescued the others.
That was a very sad one. I like the way you don’t really know which way it’s going to go in the first 10 minutes.

Deffo Charon for me @Saucery , hence the scene where Reece Shearsmith "coughed up" the silver coin.

I agree, Laurence was dead and didn't we hear a woman (presumably his wife), say hello Laurence, when he got out of the boat?

The line, "was she a hamster?" just had me in stitches.

Ah no, I think they were separate ‘people’, so a fisherman on the shore who rescued the 3 still alive and Charon the boatman transporting Laurence to the other side to be with his wife, because he had died of hypothermia.

The hooded figure was absolutely Charon - the boat to ferry him to the other side, the coin in Laurence’s mouth to pay him. He died at Bonnie’s shrine. The other three were rescued somehow.

And the hare

anyone spot it

I thought I spotted it on the shrine.

On the podcast they said it was Charon in the boat.

No, there was only one figure and it was Charon. There was no separate fisherman. Charon had been ‘watching Laurence for some time’ because he had been considering or longing for death. For the purposes of the narrative it doesn’t matter how the other three were rescued.

I did rewind and too dark but maybe on left of it

As with quite a lot of inside no.9 I enjoyed the lead up and dialogue and less satisfied with the denouement!
Loved seeing Mark Gatiss, and I like Diane Morgan but she does tend to crop up everywhere now!

Thanks all.
So Laurence was alive, initially, but got hypothermia from jumping in the lake and died from that. Just as he couldn't move on in life (still in University town, now teaching the course he used to study) he couldn't (didn't want to?) get past the loss of Bonnie.
A rather thin plot (I thought that there might be more to it than that) but padded out with a compare-and-contrast of various experiences of University: excelled but didn't like the subsequent rat-race life; became an academic; dropped out because of undiagnosed learning disability; never went in the first place.

I've watched and re watched so many episodes , not so much Series 6 , some of them took a few views (though I tried with The Heist and The Proms one , I just couldn't understand them. Loved the one with the lip reader )

There have been threads way back about Top3 favourite episodes (mostly so unfair , cannot just pick 3 )

I laughed and cried.

Par for the course with 9 for me.

it was sad and beautiful and poignant and funny. Life in a boat.

The realisation on Laurence’s face at the end broke my heart.

I want to feel something when I watch a programme. I want to think. Inside No 9 just gets to me like that. Others programmes touch my heart too.

although I also watch MIC and with that I now feel mostly irritation. And the only thing I think is that most of them have impossibly white teeth.

I’m rewatching the all again

forgotten how much I liked the Christmas Christine 13 one

that was clever

Ah - Christine was wonderful. Lovely stuff.

Gatiss' ghostly xmas ones are great too.

I love the one with the mad fan insisting on an ending rewrite and the one with Nicola Walker and the hideous jigsaw puzzling husband.