Inside No 9
BBC Two
*****
Comedy, they say, is subjective. I compared the first story of the new series of Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith’s Inside No 9, with Chaucer’s Prologue, thereby offending at least one reader who though its “puerile humour” as “flatulent as its one-dimensional figures”. If he hated last night’s play, The 12 Days of Christine, it will be for different reasons. Humour did not really come into this dark tale, and if Pemberton played one of his usual sympathetic gay men, Sheridan Smith gave tragic depth to its central character, Christine.
It began with the camera focusing on a Christmas bauble, dully reflecting the intermittent flashes of the lights on its tree. Later, a flickering fluorescent light