Inside No 9

I did but missed the first five mins so missed the set up. I liked the bumbling around stuff and loved Stephanie Cole, what an actress! She just romped home with it. Apparently some people on twitter thought the error screens were errors....Homestly, they don’t teach any texts with irony these days so how can you expect peeps to get stuff.

I did kind of like it, but ironically the consciously jumbled-up programme-on-the-blink scenario did make it feel, to me, largely just bitty and... jumbled-up. I love the show generally but this was the weakest episode.

I enjoyed it well enough, but I think I might have become jaded by all the horror I've been reading/watching this month; it was a bit sub-Ghost Watch, and I'm extremely confident I spotted all the hidden ghosts in the background of this because they were hardly hidden at all. More than other genres, horror is almost like music, in that once you become au fait with it you can predict the beats with extreme accuracy, and the best horror works when you *don't* know what's coming, so it's a very difficult genre to do well. (Though I disagree with the wider idea that it's automatically bad if it doesn't scare you; fear is very subjective, and I'll take a spooky-but-not-scary script with well-rounded characters and great dialogue/structure over cheap jump-scares any day. Alas, a lot of the genre relies too heavily on the cheap jump-scare, and this episode was not completely immune to that.)

I turned off when they announced they had lost it.

I think the same. The trying-to-get-the-jump-scare approach can also have the unintended effect of going over into silly or over-done. Plus, I find that many films I find genuinely 'scary' or even horrifying are not in what's accepted as the horror genre, an example being Arlington Road. 

Films and TV shows can be very effective if they are unnerving rather than BOO! type "scary". In The Blair Witch Project, in some of the earlier scenes when they're in their tent at night, nothing much happens except they hear a distant sound like two rocks being hit together. It's both insubstantial in itself, yet also quite creepy in context. I like stuff like that.

Too clever for you - surely not. Have you ever seen it before? It wasn't a typical episode and I thought it below their usual standards. If it's new to you, check out The Bill episode on the iPlayer and if you like it, hunt around from there.

Just watched it. Loved it. I had to turn the lights on half way through as I was terrified.

I haven't seen it yet but I have read all the spoilers though... I usually do just so I can see if I can watch it in the dark or daylight... with all the lights on and a cushion 😂😂. I think I will need a sleeping tablets or tranquillizers after watching it!!!

Someone on twitter pointed to something that Reece and Steve done it's a commentry for series 2 on soundcloud. I had no clue it existed and then I started to listen. Oh boy!! You have to listen to it from bottom to top starting with 12 Days of Christine and as I discovered you don't need to be watching the episodes but you need to have watched them.

m.soundcloud.com/steve-reece-in9

Got round to watching the live episode this evening. Managed to avoid most spoilers apart from an email in work that let on to one part of it (the mute audio) which helped eliminate the confusion surrounding that aspect, but very much enjoyed this. Especially as working in Broadcast there was a a lot I enjoyed that others may not have. Quite different to the rest of the series' and I can see why it has divided opinion without its episodic narrative.
Seeing the tweet on Shearsmith's Twitter makes me wish I'd watched it live, but a great many levels of detail to it. Will rewatch at some point to try find the golden rabbit!

Yes the phone number was a League reference.

I saw it in Sheffield on Sunday, and was a little underwhelmed to be honest. Some mildly interesting anecdotes, no gossip (apart from learning that Tom Hardy kept film crews waiting on Venom 2), a few jokes and a little song and dance made for a pleasant diversion, no more. It was all over in 131 minutes including a 23-minute interval.

I am not sure what else I expected. Maybe a macabre twist I didn't see coming? Instead, just the promised discussion.

Did anyone catch the final episode last night?

I really thought it was a great way to say goodbye, and cleverly done to reference lots of previous episodes. Also it has made me so excited for Stage/Fright next year!