Every Inside No. 9 Episode Ranked From Worst To Best
18. Cold Comfort
Plot: A volunteer (Pemberton) at a helpline receives a call from a suicidal teenage girl and everything soon begins to unravel.
Location: A call centre.
This is a very experimental episode, since the entire thing is presented as a CCTV feed. With hindsight, it would've probably been better to save this filming technique for a different kind of story, since the camerawork doesn't really feel that relevant to the rest of the plot, but it was still a very interesting and effective choice of presentation that, thankfully, doesn't feel too gimmicky.
As for the rest of the story, it's another firecracker. It's a disturbing and unsettling psychological drama with a particularly shocking twist ending, but it also has some fantastic laughs as well. It's another wonderful mixture of light and dark and although it's one of the harder-to-watch Inside No. 9 episodes, chances are you'll still be eager to rewatch again and again.
Just be warned: you'll probably never look at 'Shine' by Take That the same way again.