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Genius times two

posted 8 years ago by chrisseeu
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Missed this the first time of showing. Missed it if it was ever repeated. Thankfully the great channel "Gold" has repeated it and I've finally caught up with the brilliance that is "Psychoville". Apart from feeling daft for never seeing it, I'm totally blown away by this genius comedy. I can not praise the writing brilliance of Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith enough. That's just their writing, I could go on and on praising their actor skills too.No need for me to do so it's there on the screen for us all to enjoy. Long may these two deliver fantastic comedy. I'm off now to watch Inside No 9. Those who don't know ? Eh?Also written and starring the two mentioned above. I often worry today's comedy is miles away from the comedy I grew up laughing at. Yes it is! but with these two we can be reassured it's not all lost.

[–] sunezno (269) 4 months ago

I randomly found and binged this show a year or so ago, and I fell in love with it right away, of course.

I'm rewatching it now, and although I'd already suspected that at least two characters were played by the same person (I figured Hattie and David were the same actor, and Maureen and one of the singing serial killers were the same actor), I was blown the fuck away when I decided to look up what actor played Lomax.

At first I was like, "Okay, this has to be some kind of typeo, right?" Reece Shearsmith is Mr. Jelly, Maureen, Brian, the singing serial killer (John Reginald Christie), and Jeremy Goode/Silent Singer, and then Steve Pemberton is David, Hattie, George, Judge Pennywise, and Mr. Lomax of all people!!

My god, that in itself just gives me an extra layer of appreciation for the show that I hadn't thought was possible.

I'm only on S2E2 of this current rewatch, but now I might need to restart the whole thing just to admire the acting chops of what I had originally assumed were multiple different people.

[–] legnadibrom (6233) 4 months ago

The League Of Gentlemen might actually blow your mind

[–] sunezno (269) 4 months ago

I'd never heard of it until seeing some of the comments on here, so I downloaded it and plan on giving it a goo today. I'm excited!

[–] DoctorThirteen (13995) 4 months ago

I own the whole of Psychoville on DVD. 'Silent Singer' really is the stuff of nightmares!

[–] sunezno (269) 4 months ago

I might have to find it on DVD someday, because I just have it on files on my computer, which is nice, in some ways, but I also love having the physical copy of things like that.

Does the DVD have extras and stuff, too?

[–] DoctorThirteen (13995) 4 months ago

Yes, there are loads of extras; interviews, BTS/filming, galleries, commentaries. The series 2 set extras also includes the Psychoville Halloween Special. Don't know if you've seen that, but it's a homage to those Amicus 1960s/1970s anthology horror movies like Dr Terror's House of Horrors, Tales from the Crypt, The House That Dripped Blood etc. Creepy as hell in places.

[–] sunezno (269) 4 months ago

I haven't seen the Halloween one yet; I think I only heard of it via these boards, but I haven't been able to find it online digitally yet, so I might have to just find the DVDs now anyway.

[–] sunezno (269) 4 months ago

I'm finally watching "Inside No. 9" and just got extremely excited to see a crossover episode (S5E2: Death Be Not Proud) featuring David Sowerbutts!

I fucking love these guys, man.

[–] DoctorThirteen (13995) 4 months ago

I haven't seen that episode of Inside No. 9, I'll have to catch it!

[–] sunezno (269) 3 months ago

I wrote that last comment right after he initially appeared at the door in the episode, so I was pleasantly surprised to see how the rest of it played out.

I kept trying to imagine how that episode would seem to viewers who'd never seen Psychoville and thus didn't have that reference knowledge lol