After an unreasonable two-year absence, only alleviated by last year’s Halloween special, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton’s Psychoville finally returns for a second series of black comedy japes and spooky mystery. As a spiritual follow-up to The League Of Gentlemen‘s small-town horror, Psychoville may lack that show’s insidious edge and pervasive atmosphere, but a more ambitious format (fully serialized plotting, wider scope) has helped carve it a complimentary identity. However, it’s still less menacing and moody than The League ever was — being more of a warped carnival of oddities — perhaps signifying that Shearsmith and Pemberton are mellowing in middle-age, or that colleagues Mark Gatiss and Jeremy Dyson were the more macabre half of their comedy troupe.
I found series 1′s finale of Psychoville unsatisfying, primarily because the story deserved a conclusion, but instead creaked as it tardily introduced a supernatural curveball (a magical locket owned...
I found series 1′s finale of Psychoville unsatisfying, primarily because the story deserved a conclusion, but instead creaked as it tardily introduced a supernatural curveball (a magical locket owned...
- 5/5/2011
- by Dan Owen
- Obsessed with Film
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