YMMV / Inside No. 9

• Complete Monster:
  • "To Have and to Hold": Adrian is the emotionally abusive husband of heroine Harriet. Belittling and controlling Harriet every chance he gets, Adrian has a dark secret: years ago, Adrian kidnapped the cleaning woman Agnes and keeps her imprisoned where he tortures, beats, and rapes her, having fathered a son from this. Said son, Levi, is kept imprisoned, beaten, and abused, with Adrian even raping Agnes in front of him.
  • "Wise Owl": Wilf is a child-molesting sociopath who even molested his son Ronnie, abusing him so frequently that he neglected his daughter and caused her death in a fire. Wilf proceeded to blame Ronnie for the fire, having him institutionalized and destroying his life for decades.
• Magnificent Bastard:
  • "The Referee's a W***er": Martin Rutherford is a corrupt referee hellbent on promoting his team, City, to the top league of English football. Upon the final league match of the season, Martin sets about sabotaging a game between Rovers and United in order to dock points from them by orchestrating a magnificent Zero-Approval Gambit: enlisting the help of several incompetent officials to assist him with the game, Martin sets out to sow division amongst them by having the weakest one, Oggy, approached and bribed. He also makes sure to do the same to Phil, a junior referee who Martin knows will inform the authorities to save his career. Attempting to ruin the playing of United's star striker, Calvin, Martin seduces him and then falsely gives him a Love Confession right before the match in order to rattle him. Once on the field, Martin causes chaos by making deliberately poor refereeing decisions, until finally abandoning the game twelve minutes from time after successfully turning the crowd and the players against each other, causing each team to be docked points and ensuring that City will be promoted. Remaining completely above suspicion the whole time, Martin celebrates his victory upon being left alone, having accomplished everything he set out to do.
  • "Misdirection": Gabriel is a talented amateur magician determined to take revenge on Neville Griffin for murdering Gabriel's grandfather Willy Wando and stealing his magic trick. Using the concept of misdirection, Gabriel fools Neville into thinking that he is trying to expose him for the murder of Willy whilst actually planning to frame him for the murder of his wife. Using a series of tricks whilst remaining above suspicion, Gabriel manipulates him into handling a razor blade, revealing the combination of his safe by planting a tracking device on his ring and turning off his security camera late at night. Obtaining everything he needs, Gabriel then murders Neville's wife and plants the razor in Neville's safe before informing the police, resulting in Neville being jailed for life.
• Memetic Mutation: In "Wuthering Heist", Columbina breaks the fourth wall and says, "I bet you're loving this on the Cook'd and Bomb'd forum", a Shout-Out to the Chris Morris/comedy forum Cook'd and Bomb'd. CaB posters responded by posting 'hi Reece/Steve' and 'I bet you're loving this on the X forum' throughout the Inside No 9 series 6 thread.
• Narm: The ending to "Tempting Fate", in which Keith and his son are killed from the apartment blowing up. As dark as it may seem, the way it was portrayed made it hard to take seriously.