Inside Men Review: "Episode 1.04"

For the first three episodes of Inside Men’s four episode run, the show told us the story of three very different men executing one big crime. Inside Men showed us the slow and steady changes of this trio over the course of a few months. With the exception of a few minor mistakes, the show was successful at building tension towards an event we already knew played out successfully. But with the final episode, Inside Men makes plenty of missteps to make up for the lack of them in the series and ends on one of the least satisfying and confusing finales in recent memory.  read more

Inside Men Review: "Episode 1.03"

In this penultimate episode of Inside Men, Marcus is given the task to purchase masks for the robbery that will be going down in a few months. While the “inside men” might need masks for the robbery in September, they’ve all been wearing masks since the moment they decided they would rob their business, a cash counting house. With this third episode, we start to see the masks these three, and the ones around them, have had to put on, and showing how hard it may be to take off these masks in the end.  read more

Inside Men Review: "Episode 1.02"

In the second episode of Inside Men, the question arises many times, although not forcibly so, about how much you can trust someone. Even though the three titled “inside men”, John, Marcus and Chris, have worked together for quite some time, now their relationship dynamic has changed considerably. To a certain extent, they can trust each other, for if one peg falls, the rest goes with it, but now they have to decide who will be their “outside men”.   read more

Inside Men Review: "Episode 1.1"

It seems like television in the last decade or so has decided to favor the downtrodden, quiet, unassuming characters looking for something more. Those characters whose demeanor is silent, yet inside rages an uncertainty, the darkness bubbling to the surface. Take for instance, Dexter or science teacher-turned-meth lord Walter White on Breaking Bad. These are people tired of getting kicked aside, pushed around, sick of the bullshit. BBC’s newest miniseries Inside Men, features three such characters fed up with the way that life has treated them thus far and decide to do something about it.  read more