Series five took Inside No. 9 to new and unusual places: the changing room at a premier league football match, a Louisiana prison, a cemetery at night, Wood Green… In fan-treat episode ‘Death Be Not Proud’, it even revisited an old haunt. Co-creators Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith welcomed new guest stars including David Morrissey, Ralf Little, Jenna Coleman, Phil Davis and Maxine Peake.
The series earned Bafta nominations for Best Scripted Comedy and Best Male Performance in a Comedy Programme, to go with Steve Pemberton’s 2019 Bafta win for the previous series. It offered laughter, tears, blood, a gristly beheading, and most of all, it offered variety. Streaming now on BBC iPlayer in the UK, find all the series five episode details and links to our spoiler-filled reviews below.
The Referee’s a W***er
Directed by: Matt Lipsey
Guest cast: David Morrissey, Ralf Little, Dipo Ola, Steve Speirs...
The series earned Bafta nominations for Best Scripted Comedy and Best Male Performance in a Comedy Programme, to go with Steve Pemberton’s 2019 Bafta win for the previous series. It offered laughter, tears, blood, a gristly beheading, and most of all, it offered variety. Streaming now on BBC iPlayer in the UK, find all the series five episode details and links to our spoiler-filled reviews below.
The Referee’s a W***er
Directed by: Matt Lipsey
Guest cast: David Morrissey, Ralf Little, Dipo Ola, Steve Speirs...
- 5/13/2021
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Actor Sean Connery, the star of writer/director John Boorman's bizarre 1974 fantasy feature "Zardoz", depicting a post apocalyptic world where barbarians are granted an eternal life, has died in Barbados at the age of 90:
"...in 2293, the human population is divided into the immortal 'Eternals' and mortal 'Brutals." The Brutals live in a wasteland, growing food for the Eternals, who live apart in the 'Vortex', leading a luxurious but aimless existence on the grounds of a country estate.
"The connection between the two groups is through 'Brutal Exterminators', who kill and terrorize other Brutals at the orders of a huge flying stone head called 'Zardoz', which supplies them with weapons in exchange for the food they collect.
"'Zed' (Connery), a Brutal Exterminator, hides aboard Zardoz during one trip, temporarily killing its Eternal operator-creator 'Arthur Frayn' (Niall Buggy).
"Arriving in the Vortex, Zed meets two Eternals – 'Consuella' (Charlotte Rampling...
"...in 2293, the human population is divided into the immortal 'Eternals' and mortal 'Brutals." The Brutals live in a wasteland, growing food for the Eternals, who live apart in the 'Vortex', leading a luxurious but aimless existence on the grounds of a country estate.
"The connection between the two groups is through 'Brutal Exterminators', who kill and terrorize other Brutals at the orders of a huge flying stone head called 'Zardoz', which supplies them with weapons in exchange for the food they collect.
"'Zed' (Connery), a Brutal Exterminator, hides aboard Zardoz during one trip, temporarily killing its Eternal operator-creator 'Arthur Frayn' (Niall Buggy).
"Arriving in the Vortex, Zed meets two Eternals – 'Consuella' (Charlotte Rampling...
- 10/31/2020
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
This Inside No. 9 review contains spoilers.
Inside No. 9 Series 5 Episode 5
If Inside No. 9 was a takeaway pizza company, it’d go bust inside a week; what’s on the menu is so rarely what’s delivered.
Take the opening to this episode. A sentimental piano score follows an old man to a front door. Surrounded by hearts, we watch him awkwardly record an online dating video that shows him to be unreconstructed and rough around the edges but – as the musical prompts tell us – endearingly so. A widower looking for a lady friend. Bless. All signs point to rom-com sweetness.
25 minutes later and we’re watching that same man bleed to death from multiple stab wounds after one of Inside No. 9’s most complicated and ambitious stories yet. The sweetness and Alan Bennett-isms were just a disguise. The real story is another murder-revenge played out...
Inside No. 9 Series 5 Episode 5
If Inside No. 9 was a takeaway pizza company, it’d go bust inside a week; what’s on the menu is so rarely what’s delivered.
Take the opening to this episode. A sentimental piano score follows an old man to a front door. Surrounded by hearts, we watch him awkwardly record an online dating video that shows him to be unreconstructed and rough around the edges but – as the musical prompts tell us – endearingly so. A widower looking for a lady friend. Bless. All signs point to rom-com sweetness.
25 minutes later and we’re watching that same man bleed to death from multiple stab wounds after one of Inside No. 9’s most complicated and ambitious stories yet. The sweetness and Alan Bennett-isms were just a disguise. The real story is another murder-revenge played out...
- 3/2/2020
- by John Saavedra
- Den of Geek
Stars: Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, Sara Kestelman, John Alderton, Sally Anne Newton, Niall Buggy, Bosco Hogan, Jessica Swift, Bairbre Dowling, Christopher Casson, Reginald Jarman | Written and Directed by John Boorman
To many, Zardoz simply reminds them of Sean Connery in a red bikini but in truth the film is much more than that. With Arrow Video’s new Blu-ray we have a chance to revisit a unique science fiction film that really deserves to be watched and not be mocked in the [out of context way] it always seems to be.
In the year 2293 society has broken down into three distinct classes. The Brutals work the land and are forbidden from reproducing. The Executioners are brutal overseers who rule by the gun, and the Eternals, protected in a force field enclosed Eden of immortality. When a Brutal, Zed (Sean Connery) find his way into the Eternals protected little world he threatens the status quo...
To many, Zardoz simply reminds them of Sean Connery in a red bikini but in truth the film is much more than that. With Arrow Video’s new Blu-ray we have a chance to revisit a unique science fiction film that really deserves to be watched and not be mocked in the [out of context way] it always seems to be.
In the year 2293 society has broken down into three distinct classes. The Brutals work the land and are forbidden from reproducing. The Executioners are brutal overseers who rule by the gun, and the Eternals, protected in a force field enclosed Eden of immortality. When a Brutal, Zed (Sean Connery) find his way into the Eternals protected little world he threatens the status quo...
- 9/14/2015
- by Paul Metcalf
- Nerdly
Some goofy banter and catchy folk ditties are the best thing about this hammy, predictable British comedy
This only fitfully amusing but affable British comedy features Mark Chavez and Shenoah Allen as two American brothers, both struggling actors, who inherit a sprawling country estate from their grandfather (voiced by Geoffrey Palmer, who narrates from beyond the grave). However, their plans to sell up and settle their debts hit a snag when they find a comely housekeeper (the eminently likable Emily Bevan) and her aged grandmother (Sara Kestelman, giving it full-on Little Edie realness with a turban and disdainful side glances) squatting in the property. Writer-director James Kibbey and the cast occasionally lob in a bit of well-timed goofy banter but the plotting is too predictable and the performances too hammy and broad, especially the gurning, grating Allen. Jaunty, silly folk ditties brighten up the soundtrack, especially a last daft tune...
This only fitfully amusing but affable British comedy features Mark Chavez and Shenoah Allen as two American brothers, both struggling actors, who inherit a sprawling country estate from their grandfather (voiced by Geoffrey Palmer, who narrates from beyond the grave). However, their plans to sell up and settle their debts hit a snag when they find a comely housekeeper (the eminently likable Emily Bevan) and her aged grandmother (Sara Kestelman, giving it full-on Little Edie realness with a turban and disdainful side glances) squatting in the property. Writer-director James Kibbey and the cast occasionally lob in a bit of well-timed goofy banter but the plotting is too predictable and the performances too hammy and broad, especially the gurning, grating Allen. Jaunty, silly folk ditties brighten up the soundtrack, especially a last daft tune...
- 7/23/2015
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
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