is fuckin hillarious. Because its so true to life in most of its themes, consequences and situations.
''Its about the private life of Mark and Jeremy, 'two ordinary weirdos'.
Wannabe popstar Jeremy is a lazy man with big ideas, mostly about himself. His old friend and flatmate is the astonishingly tragic Mark, an obsessive loser with a no-pain, no-gain view of the world.
In an inventive twist, Jeremy and Mark's inner thoughts can be heard - whether they be dark, stupid or embarrassingly over-blown. Or sometimes all three...
Full of cringe-making embarrassment and excruciating faux pas, much of the show's humour is best described as 'close to the bone'. But if you like jokes about onanism, sex, death, and misshapen genitalia - this could be right up your alley...''
if your not an american and you can get hold of the dvd (or even if you are) i strongly advise you to get your priorities in gear and get this fudgin dvd.
Great show. It has the same freshness and bizarre truth to it that Spaced had.
To those who havent seen it, its not as gimmicky as it sounds. The unspoken thoughts of the characters whilst in first person isnt jarring at all, because most of the time you've had those thoughts in those situations, and it becomes instantly relatable.
I've only seen a few episodes, the comedy is sometimes is so bizarre, but trapped in reality that it seems normal. For instance, when he was writing the note to the girl in his office that he liked and he drew the stick figures sharing a heart. Then he realized it was corny and he wanted to be edgy so he drew a swastika on the heart.
http://www.tv-links.co.uk/Peep_Show.html
everyone should watch this. it's truly great. Jonathan Demme would love it. i really want to buy it but apparently the complete set is defective at the moment.
It's pure quality. So painful and so funny. Endlessly quotable as well. I second the motion for this to run as long as possible.
I've merged picolas' Peep Show thread with the original one.
Quote from: Garam on February 03, 2007, 07:09:00 AM
Yes, it's fantastic, best British sitcom of the decade so far, and not a weak episode yet.
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"He likes it!"
season 4 has begun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVjmbYImN70
I LOVE THIS SHOW.
basically no synopsis really does it justice or can make you interested in watching it, but watch it anyway. only Series 1 is available on US DVD, so just download the torrents. it took me pretty much all of Series 1 to really warm to the show but after that it was just great all the way through. there are SO MANY quotable lines that it's hard to keep up with them.
to me, it feels closest to Curb Your Enthusiasm/The Office/Spaced.
i love those shows (and actually prefer this to Curb Your Enthusiasm). i also love this show. everyone, please watch this.
Somewhere in England, Garam is throwing out his DVDs of the show but isn't sure why.
series 5 just started. still great.
This is the best comedy on TV.
http://www.hulu.com/peep-show
Now you have no excuse!
Merry Christmas.
YES! I didn't know it was on Hulu!
I see polka has adopted a Peep Show quote for his signature. Who else will take the PEEP SHOW PLEDGE OF 2010.
"I pledge to watch at least 6 episodes of this show in 2010 because it is the best and also because it is now available on Hulu for free (http://www.hulu.com/peep-show)."
Who's with me?
I've watched the first four seasons in the past week, and I'm starting on season five today, so I guess I qualify.
i can't access from this country. so fuck that pledge.
yeah. hulu: :yabbse-angry:
you can watch it on youtube but the aspect ratio is fucked... or just torrent.
All right, all you Peep Show fans who either reside in the US or have figured out one of the many ways to access Hulu content from outside the US, the first season of David Mitchell and Robert Webb's sketch series, That Mitchell and Webb Look, is available to watch on Hulu right now, and it's good shit, so you should get on that. The show is currently airing its fourth season in the UK, so this gives you a chance to find out what you've been missing, then torrent the shit out of the rest of the episodes like I did.
http://www.hulu.com/that-mitchell-and-webb-look (http://www.hulu.com/that-mitchell-and-webb-look)
Here's a handful of sketches to sample:
Lager Beer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwXjm64a3QE&feature=related)
Heartwarming British Underdog Movie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUyK_J_W4BI)
Bawdy 1970s Hospital (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcBOX1JBcjQ)
Quote from: polkablues on August 16, 2010, 02:25:21 AM
one of the many ways to access Hulu content from outside the US
Name two.
Quote from: P on August 16, 2010, 05:19:56 AM
Quote from: polkablues on August 16, 2010, 02:25:21 AM
one of the many ways to access Hulu content from outside the US
Name two.
1. Virtual Private Network (example (http://pcsplace.com/tutorial/how-to-watch-hulu-videos-outside-united-states-us/))
2. Firefox Modify Headers add-on (how-to (https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AY-zDhP4MbQ1ZGs5aHhnal8xZzI2MmRtZDc&hl=en&authkey=CPH9xc0I))
This show is nothing short of brilliant. I can't even imagine where the seventh season will go, but if the writing in the past is any indication, things will go from bad to worse. I'm hard-pressed to imagine any other show that nails despair and Murphy's Law quite like this show. Anytime Mark or Jeremy try to better their situation, they dig themselves deeper into the hole they made by settling back in to bad habits or even just pure misfortune.
Jeremy Osborne: You can so tell this game is over a thousand years old.
Mark Corrigan: Yes, it's very sophisticated. It's your move.
Jeremy Osborne: I don't wanna play anymore.
Mark Corrigan: Because I'm winning?
Jeremy Osborne: No, not because you're win... I don't even know who's winning! Here, Mark, I'll tell you what, you piss in this bottle, I'll drink it.
Take the pledge, P.
i'm in.
Mitchell and Webb Look has been on Netflix Instant for over a year.
Weird, I've never seen it on there.
i've never seen it on there either.
just blew through all six seasons, I can't believe it took me this long to watch it. It completely blows away any other comedy on today (and that's saying a lot). You can really judge a great show by how much you laugh out loud at it when you're watching by yourself. This show has those laughs in spades. I haven't seen much of Mitchell and Webb look but the few sketches posted above were pretty good.
Show sounds awesome. I'll check it out when I get back high speed for sure.
Yeah, Instant. Look for it.
But the main point is that it's a good show. It has it's ups and downs, but way more ups than most sketch shows and it has a lot of really hard laughs.
Quote from: RegularKarate on August 17, 2010, 10:54:43 AM
Yeah, Instant. Look for it.
But the main point is that it's a good show. It has it's ups and downs, but way more ups than most sketch shows and it has a lot of really hard laughs.
I agree. I would kill for the SNL writers to watch it and learn some lessons on how to structure a sketch.
Series 7 premiere is online now. Airs this Friday.
Torrenting now. Thanks for the heads-up.
Six-minute-later edit: And now watching. Good god, I love the 21st century.
So it's up through the 3rd episode so far. I've been watching it on Youtube, they have the episodes in 2 part chunks.
I'm finding it funny, and also bizarre that the episodes don't always end in clusterfucks now. They sometimes provide a glimmer of hope... particularly the end of the first episode and third episode. And this isn't a bad thing, they're doing it perfectly within the Peep Show environment, it doesn't feel like a new show, but it feels refreshed and new.
Who else is keeping up with the 7th series?
Just watched the third episode, definitely the best of the season so far. Some of Mark's lines about "Kenneth" had me laughing until I couldn't breathe. David Mitchell is a goddamn genius, and I don't mean that in the hyperbolic, "Whoever thought to put yogurt in squeezable plastic tubes is a genius" kind of way, but rather that he is an actual Tesla-level genius, except at comedy instead of inventing shit. So not hyperbolic at all.
Robert Webb is also great, but I've found that I only really like him as a counterpoint to David Mitchell. I watched a couple episodes of his spoof-the-internet series, "Robert's Web", and it was not great. It could use some David Mitchell. Also better jokes.
I'm also very happy to have more Dobbie and less Sophie. I like Olivia Colman, but that character became unbearably shrill and irritating over the last season. If they could continue phasing her out, it would really be doing me a favor. The new girl that Jeremy is pining over is good, but does not hold a candle to Jeremy's true unrequited love, Big Suze.
don't forget Super Hans knocking at Mark's door with a piece of wood. "CRACK."
Quote from: cronopio 2 on December 17, 2010, 03:59:00 AM
don't forget Super Hans knocking at Mark's door with a piece of wood. "CRACK."
Or the fact that Mark has the envelope right by the door.
God, I love this show. I laugh out loud just reading you guys remind me about it.
Fuck, this show is still so good. But I have to wait another year for more episodes! Six-episode seasons are the worst thing to come out of Britain since colonialism.
I work with this guy who does a lot of random freelance stuff on all kinds of TV shows and movies and just works at the theater for consistent pay. One day I told him he might like Peep Show, it seemed like his sense of humor and he was like "Oh, God no." I asked why but lo and behold, he had worked on a pilot for an international rip off of it for the states. It was pitched to Spike TV and, as you can tell, it did not go through.
I mostly half believed him about it, but today he just brought me a DVD of the pilot they shot for it. It's loosely worked around the second episode of the first season where Mark meets Valerie at the party he takes his groceries to (though in the pilot, he's actually taking a shit and doesn't lock the door and she barges in to raid the medicine cabinet and they hit it off).
It's horrible, to say the least. But for those of you really into Peep Show, it would be an absolute blast to see. Does anyone know a good, free program for ripping video from a DVD? I could grab some caps from it at the very least, but it's definitely not much to look at... the two guys playing Mark and Jeremy are incredibly uncharismatic.
Use Mac The Ripper, share this with the Internet. I'd heard about this for a while, would be really curious to see it.
Was this the version with Josh Meyer and Jonathan Galecki, or the version with complete unknowns?
i think constantly about how good the writing on this show is. at least 3 times a day.
I finally started watching this... the style is definitely weird at first. I can't wait to reach the part where I'm comfortable with the characters. So far so good though
Series 2 Episode 1. You will definitely be settled by then.
You were all right. This show is beyond funny. Every fucking line is a quote.
Thanks you so much Xixaxers!
Edit: just finished season 2 ... I can't remember loving a show so much
Awesome! Yeah Series 2 is really when it snaps into place. Every episode has so many lines where I'm like "I have to write that down" but forget.
So Peep Show series 8 is supposedly coming out this fall, but in the meantime, I'm catching up on Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong's other show, the college-set "Fresh Meat". I'm four episodes in, and it's pretty great. It reminds me a lot of Judd Apatow's excellent "Undeclared" (with the added bonus of no goddamn Jay Baruchel), not just in setting but in tone and character. Less free-wheeling and absurdist than Peep Show, but just as good at nailing the humor inherent in odd people interacting with the world at large. Jack Whitehall is a massive star in the making as well. He's one of those actors with the ability to wring comedy out of any line.
So basically, has anyone else watched this, and if not then someone please do so, because I would like to talk to people about it.
Polka, where are you watching it?
I torrented it. As far as I can tell, there's no legit way to view it stateside yet.
Just finished the first series of Fresh Meat. This show is legit, you guys.
Acquiring it now. Can't wait to watch.
According to Robert Webb's twitter, they have officially begun filming series 8 of Peep Show. Like literally an hour ago.
gah!!! stop calling it series. it's a SEASON goddamn it. the british idiots who came up with that terminology got it wrong alright? they are too big to admit it but it is just WRONG.
australia uses the same fucked up word for it and it's the one time i hate a UK version of a word over the american version. believe me, every other time the american version of a word is absolutely stupid, so i understand why you want to adopt the "right" version of the english language, but this time.. no.
just.. no.
I agree completely, this is one bit of etymology the US got right (the opposite of how we use "entrée" to mean the main course). I use "series" when I'm talking about British shows mainly out of politeness, but I'm more than happy to say fuck it.
The new SEASON of Peep Show is supposedly starting later this month. Meanwhile, Fresh Meat (did anyone get around to watching that?) is in the middle of its second season, and it's still fantastic.
Peep Show's back.
Polka, I watched both series of Fresh Meat and love it. Not quite as bitingly funny as Peep Show but I've grown to love the characters which makes up the difference. Series 2 ended on such a cliffhanger, it'll be a bummer to have to wait for more eps. I prefer it already to uh, any comedy on American TV right now, I think. VERY NICE RECOMMENDATION.
I also watched the first ep of the Peep Show S8. Still great.
The first couple episodes of the new season of Peep Show were good but a little underwhelming, especially after such a long wait. The last two episodes have been gold, though.
I'm really digging this season. The Jez/Dobby/Mark triangle is pretty amazing.
Super Hans as Mark's boss is a hilarious development. I also loved Jez's conversation with Dobby about Venetian Snares vs. Aphex Twin. Her answer is PERFECT.
Final series starts airing in the UK next Wednesday.
I hope it's a good last hoorah cause I thought series 8 was pretty shit.
why do you guys call them series when they;re seasons, what do you call whole shows
We used to call them programmes, but we call them shows now since we're becoming increasingly Americanised.
We don't call them seasons because our shows don't generally last whole seasons (of the year - 13 weeks or more).
I make the distinction when referring to American shows, call them seasons. Honestly I don't think it's that big of a deal but I try to keep the British way of saying things most of the time, cause I resent everything defaulting to the Americanism, and believe that diversity isn't such a bad thing.
Series is really more accurate anyway now that so much American TV has moved toward the British model.
The British usage of "brilliant" has subtleties that I'm not comfortable with, though.
It's back - it's good!
Not 'brilliant' though.
"this is against the geneva convention!"
"I 'eard the Strokes before you..."
"Shall we...do a Litvinenko?"
Actually pretty damn good. Series 1-3 quality.
The way they ended Sophie's arc is so hysterically cruel. Mark is a terrible person. Also, the decision to shoehorn SuperHans into almost every episode this series is a good shout. He's Peep Show's Kramer. Almost everything he says is hilarious.
One episode left. I'm going to miss this show. I was 15 when I first started watching it. I feel old.
This final season is really going out in a blaze of glory. I'm going to miss it too. The weirdest thing for me is not how the show has changed much (which it hasn't) but to think of how much the landscape of TV (at least in America) has changed all around it. When I discovered this in 2007, there was truly nothing else like it on TV so it was easy to declare it 'the best' where now it's hard to even keep up with the amount of shows that are good/interesting or worthwhile in some way. Still, Peep Show holds a special place in my heart. I'd love to go back and rewatch it someday from the beginning but when to find the time...