Shearsmith and Pemberton can't do it all on their own. Here are Inside No. 9's most memorable turns by guest actors, from Helen McCrory to Lee Mack and more. Spoilers.
Review of Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith s latest
Six series in, and Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton have lost none of their ability to surprise with Inside No 9. It must surely be a TV first for a primetime comedy show to be based on the medieval masked Italian theatrical tradition of commedia dell’arte.
The reason the characters are masked in Wuthering Heist is that they are plotting a £12million diamond robbery, and you can take that at erm, face value, without needing to know anything about dramatic history. Yet it’s obvious from the heightened performances and peculiar beats of this enjoyably peculiar episode that the creators are drawing on something else. For this is no straightfoward thriller - as if ‘straightfoward’ ever had a place in the lexicon of Inside No 9.