The sixty-eighth TV show: #569 The League of Gentlemen
Thanks to the anniversary season, I've got a good excuse to write about this show. I watched Inside No 9 early on in the list and watched Psychoville on our own. We also finished watching the series a few months before we started on the TV list, so otherwise this would have taken its time.
When I covered Little Britain earlier, one of the big thoughts was that League of Gentlemen did a lot of it better - a few sketches seemed like direct, but worse copies. Now, some things feel a bit dated (LGBT issues were still being explored), but that's something where there is at least some progress and exploration with the themes they explore with their characters.
The series explores a lot of dark characters and themes, some slightly supernatural, some gross, but mostly brilliantly portrayed and memorable. The most interesting is that where these start off as isolated characters, in the third season the storylines mostly started to grow to be interconnected, creating some interesting interactions and making a more interesting ongoing story.
It's dark, it's funny and it's incredibly well put together. I'd never want to visit Royston Vasey... but I'm happy we got to see more of it.