Review by owen-watts

Part of the 2023 celebrations involved burping up a sequence of the older episodes with the some newly written bumper segments with the old actors. By-and-large all of these bits are excellent, and ranged from charming to genuinely heart-breaking, The shows themselves vary depending on who you get, and definitely loose a little something being crammed together into a single long feature. You really need those cliffhangery episodic ending bits otherwise it can all feel a bit overwhelming. It's lovely to rewatch them all in this context though and even the slightly flabbier or dated serials feel a bit "special" here. There was a brief revival of the format the year after to add context to Ncuti's first series finale, beset with the same issues but added some interesting effects.