Another firm favourite - Inside No 9
TW-references to suicide and sexual assault Very excited to do another post on this show as part of my (kind of) mini-series on some of my favourite TV shows and why I rate them so highly. There are so many things to love about this show so I’m bound to forget to include some reasons in this post (especially as others might like it for different reasons). Firstly, while people understandably tend to focus on how dark it is and the twists etc, it’s always a comedic show with a lot of humour regardless of the tone or genre. For example, with episodes like the brilliant The Devil of Christmas, it manages to simultaneously be a harrowing and unsettling but also very humorous take on an old-fashioned style Christmas special. This really works well to entertain the viewer while settling people into what they think the plot/tone might be before often pulling the rug out or shifting the tone dramatically and the lines that seemed like one-off jokes actually end up subverting expectations a