for me Red Dwarf V is the best over all season of the show, although I do like almost all of VII too :)
Holoship 9/10 - A wonderful Rimmer episode to start the season with, finally he has a real loving relationship with a woman and he sacrifices all he ever wanted to give her what she wanted, it's a real tear jerker ending that comes out of nowhere and really shows a different side to Rimmer who's usually despisted by all.
The Inquisitor 10/10 - Fantastic! A brilliant script full of witty ideas and it gets time travel right for a change, and the showdown between Lister and the Inquisitor is just genius. Full marks for the innovative use of a severed hand in a sitcom...
Terrorform 9/10 - Another Rimmer episode, this one treats him much more like usual, and the use of the Copocabana music is great. The Taranshula gag too is just outstanding.
Quarantine 10/10 - Just when you think the show can't get any better it does and what an episode too. First of all there's the usual Rimmer humiliation scene, then he goes crazy and wears a dress as he sucumbs to a holovirus and then there's the funny ending as the others get their revenge on him by putting him through what he did to them, marvellous!
Demons & Angels 11/10 - The 'high' versions of the crew are funny but the 'low' versions are much funnier still. It's interesting to see the hippies and then the hells angels and the evil Holly is a wonderful Elvira-esque change to her usual blonde bimbo look. Of special sickening note is the scene where Lister is forced to eat a tarantula, that gives it the extra bonus mark.
Back To Reality 10/10 - The season goes out on the most format stretching storyline so far, making the crew and the viewers think that the past 5 years has been a Total Immersion Video Game (ala Better Than Life) but they're entirely different people than who they thought they were. The guest cast is great too with that guy from Harry Potter and the really weird one from Twin Peaks putting in two memorable and all too short appearances.
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