Peep Show (now with added Mitchell & Webb Look)

Sunday's not a bad day for it actually.

So, what did anyone think? I did laugh, but it was no great shakes.

It was pretty good but not great, Jeremy in front of the therapist was probably the best bit. There's a bit too much clunky quipping in Mark's inner monologue now, I'm sure it wasn't always like that.

Still don't actually believe that Gerard is dead.

Johnson's speech at the funeral was terrible. I didn't really enjoy the episode much at all, and can't think of a single good line, though one thing did make me giggle (not a very good return from 20+ minutes, really)

It doesn't really help that they become increasingly pathetic as they get older and the writers are aware of that. What works when the characters are in their mid-20s becomes increasingly desperate when they're in their mid-30s.

i only do robotic food, i can't do analog

I like Peep Show, although this was the first time I'd seen it in a very long time and yeah, not great - seemed to be harking back to the dark days of series 4 when situations would get so far-fetched they no longer seemed to have any grounding in real-life, which for me is part of the point and spirit of the show. But y'know, breaking the microwave, confronting the therapist; there was no "ah, we've all done that" acknowledgement, it just seemed zany for the sake of it.

What works when the characters are in their mid-20s becomes increasingly desperate when they're in their mid-30s

Hey now

It was average. The first episode of any given series of Peep Show is often a bit sub-par though.

Yeah it was a bit business as usual. The whole prolonged curry bit had me laughing irl though.

Oh yeah that was funny. Always good when Mark gets properly spiteful.

yeah the curry bit was good actually, and jez not being sure whether his cover had been blown or not for a bit.

i don't really expect hilarity from Peep Show anymore. It sort of trundles along as a comedy institution now. I quite enjoyed that episode though

Oh I don't know, season 7 had its hilarious moments.

Sorry, SERIES 7. Must avoid Americanisms in a Peep Show thread.

p excited to see this (i am an americans so I guess it will have to be by illicit means). But chap OTM that the season openers of Peep Show are almost always subpar.

Series 8 is bound to be tons better than that frickin' magicians movie which I failed to endure on Netflix a couple of months ago...

Also no one is mentioning Dobby PLEASE CONFIRM S8 HAS DOBBY

s8 has dobby

Dobby, 1x Johnson, no Sophie

Still hoping for the return of Toni.

she's the beautiful poison, my friend

Rewengeh!

True to form, second episode a lot better.

"this must be the greatest quantity of squeezable mustard ever present at a literary lunch"

the velvet spoon routine...

It's still leaving me a bit cold. I just didn't buy Mark, the most suspicious man in the world, falling for that fake publishing deal. No matter how desperate he might have been, he'd have picked up that Denmark isn't in the Euro.

I like Jeremy gradually trying to assert himself as the more sensible one though.

I feel like the context was that, no, Optimally-Performing Mark wouldn't have allowed himself to be fleeced like that but Desperate, Bathroom Supply Selling Mark might well lose his sense of judgment.

Can I just say: I'm always glad when they bring things around and show Mark and Jez being, y'know, actual friends who care about one another.

Yeah, I agree. The ending was actually quite sweet.

By the way, has everyone spotted Zhara from last series talking to Yoda with a Northern accent in the new Vodafone ad?

"...plus, it's not like Napoleon is wiping his bum with pages of MY biography, so I am, to an extent, maybe...winning?"

Was a good one this week.

yeah the third one was good. superhans was great.

Back in the game with this one.

"9/11 was good news. Not good news obviously but… good 'news'."

Really good episode that one, waaaaay more solid than ep.2 even if it did lack a line that caused me to literally piss myself like the chitty chitty bang bang one did last week.

The problem with the first couple was that the situations just weren't very funny. Paintball episodes are kind of modern sitcom bankers though, really enjoyed this one.

How does an americaner shot s8? I'm dyin' here.

Peep Show only works when the situations and reactions are believable. Jez has gone from being a narcissistic layabout to a deluded, borderline sociopathic nihilist. Mark has also turned into an active cretin. Despite their faults, the two characters were sympathetic; you empathised and rooted for them in most situations, but as with S4, much of this series revolves around them doing ridiculous, unbelievable things.

xpost Some kind soul or another has been thankfully uploading the s8 episodes to YouTube.

ha cool i didn't even check there cause I figured it would have been stamped out right away!

the velvet spoon routine had me dying, perfectly captures that feeling of being startled when caught trying to be sneaky

series 8 appears to be on hulu as well

God bless you hulu.

"Demanded the Ramsgate blowjob?"

"Mumford & Sons"

Just re-watched that episode before ep 4. Both classic.

Yeah, episode four is really excellent.

the pizza line ahahahsahaahaa

Episode 5 is up on 4OD, by the way.

dead gerard

haunting me from beyond the grave, like a boring dracula.

That Freecycle gag was excellent. Total callback with the Barchester Chronicles too

Episodes 3 and 4 have been great.