Psychoville

Psychoville Preview

This Thursday, Psychoville - the latest comedy-horror from Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton, half of the team behind the gets-better-every-time-you-watch-it League of Gentlemen - reaches its deadly and disturbing denouement.

Psychoville 1.6 Review

Everyone's drawn to Ravenhill Hospital in the penultimate Psychoville, an episode that rediscovered the sense of pace and development from the earlier episodes. I have high hopes for next week's big finale after this, so hopefully Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton won't let us down...

Psychoville episode six: "I'm waiting"

It's all back to the Institute as our heroes are hampered by handcuffs, decapitated heads and Sonia from EastEnders. Well, no one said it would be an easy ride ...

Psychoville - we know what they did

If you were watching last night's episode of Psychoville you may have heard an announcement saying you could watch the final episode on red button. This was a mistake following a little misunderstanding and we would like to apologise sincerely on behalf of all those concerned.

We think the black gloved stranger may have had something to do with it.

Psychoville episode 6 review

Was the sixth episode of Psychoville the best one yet? It's certainly sets things up for a cracking finale...

In its scary, sinister, creepy but very funny way, League of Gentlemen Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton's beautifully made and brilliantly performed comedy thriller has been one of the TV treats of the summer. This coming Thursday it reaches its climax with some suitably awful goings-on as all the characters find out why they've been summoned and who summoned them.

It's the penultimate episode of a series that shows no signs of returning to Planet Normal any time soon. All the characters are worried that their mysterious blackmailer is "deeply disturbed" and "bordering on the psychotic", which brings to mind pots and kettles of the blackest variety. As the story unfolds, they are all drawn to a disused hospital in readiness for a macabre showdown. But before that can happen, the Mother & Son team of serial killers (Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton) are preparing to dispatch one final victim. Mum wants to buy an indoor barbecue in readiness for the occasion. "I thought we could do something special," she says, "and eat her. What do you think? I've bought some red onions." "That's disgusting," her son replies. "I don't like red onions."

Have you lost your virginity yet?" asks a lecherous colleague of pantomime dwarf Kerry. "If you have, can I play with the box it came in?" A tempting proposal, but Kerry's got bigger fish to fry tonight as she attempts to foil Robert's plan to trick Debbie into marriage. In doing so, she'll force him to confront the truth about himself & reveal her own true nature. Elsewhere, Messrs Jelly and Jolly's fragile alliance looks set to founder & the Sowerbutt's murderous idyll is threatened by a trip to the DIY store. The sinister and the bathetic continue to jostle amusingly and compellingly for space as Psychoville nears its end. There are fewer laughs in tonight's episode and no formal invention to match the Gatiss / Pemberton / Shearsmith three-way of episode four. But it remains a gloriously grubby and painstakingly crafted creation which will remain worth following right until the inevitably bitter end.