NEW SEASON STARTS NOVEMBER 26TH
Peep Show is a British comedy that started back in 2003. It hands down one of the most consistently funny and best-written shows I've ever seen. It stars David Mitchell as the tragically neurotic Mark Corrigan and Robert Webb as Jez, his pathetic and self-absorbed best friend and flatmate.
Despite a pretty ordinary setup, the show is unique in its presentation. Every scene is shot in first person, and most of the speaking lines are dubbed-in internal monologues provided by the cast.
The situations may border on the contrived, but the dialog is organic and the show offers a certain familiarity in its characters and monologues. We all know a Jeff, a Sophie, a Dobbie. We wish we worked for Johnson and we all know a Super Hans (or at least we did in college). We are Mark and Jeremy. We have felt their unrelenting self-loathing and basked in their celebration over every minor victory. We love and hate them simultaneously, just as we do ourselves.
The stream of consciousness monologues present throughout the show can be appropriately summarized by the opening credits' Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger:
The show is relatively short, with 6 episodes per season. However, it's incredibly dense and there are so many jokes and characters that even by the 5th season it starts to feel like the writers are retreading old ground. Regardless, every single episode is a gem and worth checking out:I had visions, I was in them,
I was looking into the mirror
To see a little bit clearer
The rottenness and evil in me
Via Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/peep-show
Via Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI0bVERTi1A
It's impossible to pick just a few quotable moments from the show, but here are some good clips for anyone interested in giving this a watch:
Mark cums all in his pants
Mark and Jez go clubbing
Jez and the "bad thing"
Jez poisons Mark
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