Finales tend to collapse under the weight of their own significance - but not when it came to Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith's masterpiece
Finales tend to collapse under the weight of their own significance - but not when it came to Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith's masterpieceJune 13, 2024 12:20 am
The half hour story unfolded as a star-studded greatest hits that nodded both to its illustrious past – notably the very first episode “Sardines”, bringing back Tim Key and Katherine Parkinson – and to the duo’s future. Replete with a thousand in-jokes to be sifted through more thoroughly for years to come, the episode took place mostly in a club toilets where each door was labelled, inevitably, No 9.
Instead, it spent a full half hour referencing itself: its cultural significance, its BAFTA success, its pitiful BBC budgets, and the glittering array of guest stars – the majority of whom had gathered here for a celebration of the show’s history. But mostly the action remained in the toilets. Katherine Parkinson and Tim Key shared a cubicle to trade professional bitching while trying – and, in the case of a clumsy Key, failing – to snort cocaine.Before long 89-year-old Anne Reid eagerly joined them., arrived to regale Shearsmith with future programme ideas while relieving his bladder.
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