Inside Man spoilers follow.
David Tennant's BBC drama Inside Man gripped viewers with its third episode tonight (October 3), with many fans labelling the miniseries a "deranged," "Shakespearean" show they couldn't wait to see how it ended.
Inside Man is a twisty, turny, labyrinthine series following a prisoner on death row in the US (Stanley Tucci) and Janice (Dolly Wells), a woman locked in a cellar in an English village, who cross paths in the most bizarre ways.
The almost-farcical like nature of the show has gripped viewers as they try to work out why these complex characters are doing what they're doing and how the interconnecting storylines all connect. Episode three, in which police interrogated Tennant's Reverend Watling about Edgar's suicide note, raised the stakes even higher.
Watling's wife Mary decided that they needed to kill Wells' Janice via a heater that leaked carbon monoxide, while she forged an email from Janice to her sister cancelling their Skype call.
Reverend Watling, however, locked Mary out of the house to stop her from being involved in the mirror and placed the heater in the cellar with Janice before sealing the door shut.
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Little did he know, however, that his son slipped inside the cellar beforehand. The episode ended with a massive clinger as it looks like Janice and Watling's son are heading for death.
Viewers were absolutely hooked by the episode, with one fan writing: "I’m pretty sure #InsideMan is the most Shakespearean thing anyone has written for 400 years. Uncomfortable as all hell but so genius."
Another wrote: "#InsideMan is so good and very twisty. Great story threads and cast. Lots of OMG moments. I don’t want it to end."
Someone else agreed that the show is Shakespearean by nature and compared the series, created by Sherlock co-creator Steven Moffat, to Hamlet: "I'm getting Hamlet vibes. It's like a Shakespearean tragedy."
In particular, viewers were hooked by the episode's outrageous cliffhanger, which suggests that tragedy could be afoot for Reverend Watling and his family.
The series' fourth and final episode will air tomorrow at 9pm on BBC One and it's safe to say that fans will be tuning in to see how this tangled web of drama sorts itself out.
"I am DESPERATE to know how this all ties together because NO CLUE," wrote one viewer.
Another fan wrote: "I will definitely be here tomorrow for the last part of #InsideMan, perhaps to put my foot through the telly."
Inside Man airs on BBC One.
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