Every Inside No. 9 Episode Ranked From Worst To Best
11. Love's Great Adventure
Plot: A working class family try to keep things together at Christmas, but money problems and the drug addiction crisis a member of the family is suffering ensures it won't be an easy ride. This one is told in a series of vignettes corresponding to an advent calendar being opened; we see short snippets of each day.
Location: A house.
Love's Great Adventure's big twist is that... there isn't actually a twist. A straight drama like this was exactly the right sort of story to use this twist on and it works wonders for this episode.
Instead of being anything really twisty or genre-based it's just a straight drama and an absolutely wonderful, uplifting one at that. It's an often sad yet ultimately triumphant story that delivers one superbly-written vignette after another and makes for a deeply moving experience.
The family at the story's centre are all brilliantly developed and feel like real people rather than characters, and they're all very well-performed as well.
It's certainly not a typical Inside No. 9 episode but it is still a great one and strongly suggests Inside No. 9 should dabble in straight drama stories a bit more.