Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith toy entertainingly with the Bard’s verse and narrative tropes. Also,Prince: final Year of a Legend fails to move usLike a selection box you contain lost the little paper menu for, Inside No 9 (BBC Two) is full of surprises. Behind every shiny wrapper is a unusual take on an used genre, and no two are alike. One minute,writers and stars Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith are clowning around, giving it the full spinning bow tie, and the next they’re scaring the life out of you or plumbing the depths of utter turpitude. Or just skilfully and cruelly breaking your heart,as they did in series two’s astonishing episode, The 12 Days of Christine: still one of the finest half-hours of television ever made. Seek it out.
I approach every series with the same gluttony (excessive eating or drinking) I carry out the festive chocolates, or but also the apprehension that one of the lovely packages will contain a severed thumb. They carry out love to pick at the frayed edges of humanity and yank mercilessly on the thread.
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Source: guardian.co.uk