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4. Inside No. 9
If you've ever watched a game show and heard the question, "What's behind door number nine?", chances are that the answer was nothing more than a teasmade, carriage clock or, most pointlessly of all, a speedboat. Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton, however, have placed a whole anthology of black comedies behind their door number nine, none of which you would want to win as a prize.
Anthology series have experienced a renaissance over the last decade; Inside No. 9 sits proudly on the top shelf of this new wave, alongside the likes of Black Mirror, to demonstrate that such a format can attract modern audiences and, most importantly, be entertaining.
However, while many episodes of Black Mirror could easily be a prophetic glimpse of the future, Inside No. 9 is scarily contemporary. issues like depression, finance and our relationships are all too real for some, but here we are granted a chance to laugh in the face of such adversity. Still, it's a far cry from some of the comparatively twee stories told on Play For Today.