I’m really enjoying Psychoville – there’s nothing quite like it on television at the moment (actually, apart from League Of Gentlemen, there has never been anything like it ever. Funny that) – but if there’s one criticism that has been bandied around it’s that each episode so far has seemed almost like a sketch show, with little, tantaslising bits of pieces of the characters. It takes a very skilled group of writers to fuse together myriad characters and storylines each week, and in my eyes messrs Sheersmith and Pemberton have managed it. Now, with the third episode, the story started to unravel, and we even found out how this disparate group of nut bonces being terrorised by the masked man first met.

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They say pressure does terrible things to someone. They say that especially in sport, when someone has all the skill in the world bottles on the biggest stage. I’m not saying Lomax, Mr Jelly et al are sportsman (far from it, although David might make an effective central defender for Plymouth Argyle), the pressure exerted upon them by the anonymous notes was certainly starting to takes its toll.

Last episode saw the masked man ratchet up the pressure by sending round videos to our group, although they seemed to be just fine doing their own heads in thank you very much. As the became more and more unhinged, we found out more about them – how Mr Jelly and Mr Jolly first became rivals (thanks to a brilliant flashback sequence) and were treated to a full-on clown fight (scary!), it was hinted why Joy had gone off the rails (a fraught relationship with husband George that bore no children), and Lomax (my least favourite character) getting closer to his coveted Snappy.

As for David and Maureen, and David, they were seriously buckling under the strain. David and Maureen continued their murder spree, while David, the day after the night before his humiliation, used his special powers to knock out Debbie.

If anything, this episode was more about the story than laughs, although the scene where Maureen force fed David sausages at the dinner table was very funny indeed. The two big talking points? The video itself, which showed all the characters gathered in a mental institution performing a musical number (so that’s where they met!) and the revelation that one of the letters was actually meant for Mr Jolly and NOT Mr Jelly (in the video, Jolly was revealed to be a doctor at the mental hospital).

There was also a great little bit when Joy and George were arguing over baby Freddie, George saying that he had had enough. He called baby Freddie a lump of rags or something, and the food that Joy was trying to feed it was thrown onto the floor. When they looked back at Freddie, the doll was staring straight at George with contempt. Joy, laughing, said: “See, it’s working!”

Is Freddie really alive? Brilliant.

Look out for next week, there’s a very special guest…