I really am a bear of very little brain. Just because I wasn’t terribly keen on The League of Gentlemen, I assumed I wouldn’t like Psychoville either. How silly. Well, it’s lucky I’m the good little telly reviewer I am, then, and watched the first episode because I was pretty much hooked from within the first minute. It is, in my opinion, the best thing on TV at the moment by a country mile.

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Last week, the episode made me smile from start to finish – laugh out loud funny, clever and lots of fun. This week, the tone was whole lot darker (even more so than usual), and featured what must be the creepiest scenes committed to film this year – those in which little Freddie became more of a Real Boy than Joy could have ever wished, or at least so she thought.

In this show, nothing is as it seems… or maybe it is, after about four twists and turns. I honestly don’t know any more. That episode freaked me right out. It wouldn’t surprise me to find that Freddie is alive after all.

Away from that storyline, things moved ahead quite quickly. Our suspicions that Dame Eileen Atkins must be more involved than a fleeting appearance in the background now and again were confirmed thanks to discussions between Mr Jolly and Mr Jelly – who, by the way, are absolutely my favourite double-act on TV at the moment. It appears she was a Ratchet-style nurse who used ‘morally questionable’ methods to treat the vulnerable patients in her care – and Mr Jolly took some kind of action against her when he felt enough was enough.

What is more confusing than everything else however (and that’s going some) is how Snappy The Crocodile fits into all this… we know that all the characters are linked by the mental institution, but a rare stuffed animal? They’re devoting a lot of time to it, so it must be important. Or am I just falling for their games and red herrings once again?

Oh and the musical in the wax-works dungeons was utterly, utterly fantastic. This show never ceases to surprise and amaze.