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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 415977" data-attributes="member: 8">Could this be inspired by Nicolas Roeg&#039;s Don&#039;t Look Now ? Or maybe Doctor Who, I think there are several stories with characters being in the past and the present/the present and the future at the same time.Either way, it&#039;s not very enjoyable to get to the finish of this one, probably because it doesn&#039;t have any likeable characters.Steve Pemberton almost goofed because I could see he tried very hard not to laugh (and it is&nbsp; the funniest moment in this episode).How did they come up with this, it&#039;s utterly bonkers.Friday 13th disaster parodies have been done before so we all knew it was going end seriously badly for one of them, probably the wife because she didn&#039;t take it seriously and therefore she had to be punished.Considering the light-hearted tone of the story I had expected a more brutal comeuppance, like, getting pierced by a piece of the broken mirror or something gory like that.Somehow the cat didn&#039;t get any credit for its part in the scheme. Ah-ha! They must have anticipated that the audience would automatically assume that the Lonely Hearts victims were women. Being familiar with the twisty nature of the programme I had considered, briefly, the idea that she herself was the killer - but I couldn&#039;t imagine how or why.However, it&#039;s not the killer mystery that makes this one of the scariest episodes, it&#039;s the all too familiar online interactions with strangers that brings the deceit and unpleasantness closer to home.Claire Rushbrook is magnificent in the role of Vicky, the victim of various scammers, cheaters and wackos.I&#039;ve never done online dating myself, although....I suddenly remember the chatrooms over the landline phones. Too much information! (for those who understand what a landline phone is).My favourite episode of series 8.Well obviously I wasn&#039;t the victim of the hoax, but even so I was thinking, I&#039;m playing a DVD to watch a lame quiz show. It looks exactly like the real thing and it goes on and on and I was waiting for something&nbsp; to fall apart, team 2 and team 3 seemed the most likely victims.The mother&#039;s death looks like a compression/decompression thing (as it happened to one of the James Bond villains, I believe) but I have no idea how it could happen.Did the girl have a chance to &quot;fix&quot; the room or was it a telekinetic assassination?The idea of a 9-year revenge plan is hilarious (not to mention the far-fetched reason) but perhaps it&#039;s overshadowed by too much hatefulness.It&#039;s almost as if they were saying, Inside No 9 is cancelled and we will never work together again. Luckily I know that&#039;s not true because there&#039;s another disc with series 9 (unless it&#039;s only rubbish DVD extras like Still Galleries or songs from the karaoke episode).Should I do a top 10 best episodes? Yes!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 415977, member: 8"] Could this be inspired by Nicolas Roeg's [I]Don't Look Now[/I] ? Or maybe Doctor Who, I think there are several stories with characters being in the past and the present/the present and the future at the same time. Either way, it's not very enjoyable to get to the finish of this one, probably because it doesn't have any likeable characters. Steve Pemberton almost goofed because I could see he tried very hard not to laugh (and it [I]is[/I] the funniest moment in this episode). How did they come up with this, it's utterly bonkers. Friday 13th disaster parodies have been done before so we all knew it was going end seriously badly for one of them, probably the wife because she didn't take it seriously and therefore she had to be punished. Considering the light-hearted tone of the story I had expected a more brutal comeuppance, like, getting pierced by a piece of the broken mirror or something gory like that. Somehow the cat didn't get any credit for its part in the scheme. Ah-ha! They must have anticipated that the audience would automatically assume that the Lonely Hearts victims were women. Being familiar with the twisty nature of the programme I had considered, briefly, the idea that she herself was the killer - but I couldn't imagine how or why. However, it's not the killer mystery that makes this one of the scariest episodes, it's the all too familiar online interactions with strangers that brings the deceit and unpleasantness closer to home. Claire Rushbrook is magnificent in the role of Vicky, the victim of various scammers, cheaters and wackos. I've never done online dating myself, [I]although[/I]....I suddenly remember the chatrooms over the landline phones. Too much information! (for those who understand what a landline phone is). My favourite episode of series 8. Well obviously I wasn't the victim of the hoax, but even so I was thinking, I'm playing a DVD to watch a lame quiz show. It looks exactly like the real thing and it goes on and on and I was waiting for [I]something [/I]to fall apart, team 2 and team 3 seemed the most likely victims. The mother's death looks like a compression/decompression thing (as it happened to one of the James Bond villains, I believe) but I have no idea how it[I] could [/I] happen. Did the girl have a chance to "fix" the room or was it a telekinetic assassination? The idea of a 9-year revenge plan is hilarious (not to mention the far-fetched reason) but perhaps it's overshadowed by too much hatefulness. It's almost as if they were saying, Inside No 9 is cancelled and we will never work together again. Luckily I know that's not true because there's another disc with series 9 (unless it's only rubbish DVD extras like Still Galleries or songs from the karaoke episode). Should I do a top 10 best episodes? Yes! [/QUOTE]

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