Inside No 9 Season 3 Episode 5 Diddle Diddle Dumpling

I think that the fact Louise is like "oh David what did you do... David, what did you do!", and he says "can't remember" speaks volumes... Louise: "Joseph is dead...he died" David: "they should be together"....😕 David is out of his mind and he's adamant that the twins "should be together". I'm usually an optimist but I don't reckon David started with Ted 😪

danny gibson

At least we found out that the shoe didn't belong to a black man. They kept it right until the end though. I thought they might leave that up in the air too but I'm glad we saw the photograph and CCTV footage so we know that the shoe belonged to white man David all along.

It would have been horrible but it feels like him killing his daughter was the obvious and in my opinion better conclusion as soon as we discovered that his actions were the result of his inability to cope with the idea of his two kids not being together. He could never bring back his dead son so the only way to reunite them was to kill his living child. And killing his wife's friend doesn't really provide any thematic closure to the story in the way killing his daughter would. I'm honestly kinda surprised they didn't go with the ending that seemed obvious as soon as we saw the blood on his hands and he told us why he was so upset.

Jeremy O Dwyer

Ooooh I almost guessed this one. I guessed that they lost a kid but I thought it was a daughter because of the scene where he walks into the kitchen and says "Where are my girls?" Thanks for the upload man, I'm enjoying watching these for the first time along with your reaction.

Josh

There's a fine line between homage and rip off and unfortunately this episode crosses that line. The whole "just see how long you can wait" scene is taken wholesale from Magic (1978 film). It really irks me how shamelessly they cribbed material.

Right Said Brett

I must sound so boring because I keep asking for Psychoville 😏 😅 but like Michael stated above there is a Psychoville episode coming up. I do think the series should be watched first perhaps , maybe.

Becki Riddell

That is interesting 🤔 thanks bud 👍

After Work Reactions

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Michael Harrop

That episode is like a single shoe to you lol

mwdoom

Oh it's actually series 5 not series 4 so not super close but still worth discussing

Michael Harrop

We are getting close to the 'Psychoville' episode, was anything ever decided on what to do about that? I personally feel its foolish to watch it before watching the series and he'd be better saving it as a 'finale' for when it wins on the poll

Michael Harrop

Love this episode. Gives me an uneasy feeling throughout. I Iove how they used Vivaldi's music alongside the changing seasons and the contrast between the louder, chaotic music when he was struggling with his obsession and the stillness and empty feeling inside the house. I like that shot when Ted is walking off after getting the shoe and he stops and glances back when Reece's character says something to him, he's standing there and you only see one half of him for a second or two. I like how it seems to symbolise what's going on, you see half a person and it feels really off, which is how Reece's character seems to feel about everything that's not in pairs. And I suppose how he's feeling mentally, split down the middle - battling his grief and mental health issues yet trying to live like a 'normal' person with his wife, child, job etc. It's just so well done imo. As for the ending I'm not sure. I think he might have killed Sally as well. He did say they should be together. Some people would see that as him talking about the shoes but I don't know. To me he killed his daughter as well. After all, he acknowledged himself that it wasn't really even about the shoes so would he be so desperate to get them together again? Maybe. But at that point I think he was too far gone and he was talking about the twins. I suppose that's the great thing about the show, we can all have our own interpretations :)

BelladonnicHazeyJaneII

Hate to bring down the mood Josh but nowhere at the end of the episode did they indicate that he didn't kill both Ted AND Sally 😈. If memory serves I believe that Steve and Reece claimed on the podcast that they ended the episode on a deliberately vague note in regards to whose blood exactly it was on his arm. As a side note did you happen to notice that EVERYTHING in this episode was set up in pairs (the dining room chairs, the lamps, the two cocktails etc)- definitely one of the best episodes to rewatch to experience the story from a new perspective. 👞👞

King Bloo

I just read this in an article about series 3. "Pemberton says he came up with the story as he was walking to work, racking his brain for story ideas, when he spotted a shoe in the road and started wondering 'what would happen if someone became obsessed with returning it'. By coincidence a couple of days later Shearsmith found a solitary shoe, too. Not a matching one, sadly for intrigued fans."

Keith Pratt

The struggle to NOT big-up certain episodes is heavy!.... We might as well be in Zanzibar ffs 🙄

danny gibson