Gah... almost. I really liked this episode up to the reveal of what was actually happening. I didn't hate it after that, but I was much less interested in it from that point on.
A family, Jason (Steve Pemberton), his wife Lynne (Katherine Kelly) and their daughters Millie (Kalli Tant) and Amy (Maddie Evans) are doing an escape room together, as one final family outing before the aloof Millie goes to University. Having been introduced to the setting by the enthusiastic Doug (Reece Shearsmith) they begin "The serial killers lair" but are told that should anyone come into the room, it will be the killer returning and they should hide.
Really loved the characters in this one. Katherine Kelly is always great, and she is again here, and the two girls were good too. There were lots of funny lines between them, though not without an immediate sense that something is off in the dynamic. It felt a little like a callback's episode, with Doug's struggling actor not a million miles away from Olly Plimsoles. The escape room environment gave them a chance to show some clever writing ideas, like they did with the earlier episode "The Riddle of Sphinx" and I imagine that Steve Pemberton in particular enjoyed coming up with that. I want to keep this review spoiler free, so I won't be specific about the twist, but it also reminded me of another piece of work, a certain play and film written by another "League of Gentlemen" alumnus Jeremy Dyson.
I have written in other reviews that the horror episodes are my favourite, so its when they deviate away from there that the show shook me loose a little bit. Only a bit though, I won't say that it ruined it for me and there were still more clever elements in the reveals of the ending that I did enjoy.
Can't believe that there's only two more to go.
A family, Jason (Steve Pemberton), his wife Lynne (Katherine Kelly) and their daughters Millie (Kalli Tant) and Amy (Maddie Evans) are doing an escape room together, as one final family outing before the aloof Millie goes to University. Having been introduced to the setting by the enthusiastic Doug (Reece Shearsmith) they begin "The serial killers lair" but are told that should anyone come into the room, it will be the killer returning and they should hide.
Really loved the characters in this one. Katherine Kelly is always great, and she is again here, and the two girls were good too. There were lots of funny lines between them, though not without an immediate sense that something is off in the dynamic. It felt a little like a callback's episode, with Doug's struggling actor not a million miles away from Olly Plimsoles. The escape room environment gave them a chance to show some clever writing ideas, like they did with the earlier episode "The Riddle of Sphinx" and I imagine that Steve Pemberton in particular enjoyed coming up with that. I want to keep this review spoiler free, so I won't be specific about the twist, but it also reminded me of another piece of work, a certain play and film written by another "League of Gentlemen" alumnus Jeremy Dyson.
I have written in other reviews that the horror episodes are my favourite, so its when they deviate away from there that the show shook me loose a little bit. Only a bit though, I won't say that it ruined it for me and there were still more clever elements in the reveals of the ending that I did enjoy.
Can't believe that there's only two more to go.
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