Complex sentence: The episode, he claimed, was indicative of a "mid-series lull", and though "occasionally funny", "fell some way short of what we have come to expect from Pemberton and Shearsmith".
Split into simpler sentences: The episode, he claimed, was indicative of a "mid-series lull". Hawksley, though finding it "occasionally funny", thought it "fell some way short of what we have come to expect from Pemberton and Shearsmith".