Peep Show (now with added Mitchell & Webb Look)

Even as a non-UKer it seems to me quite clear that TTOI >>>>> Veep, just so much more vicious and wonderfully black-hearted. And funny.

I really wish David Mitchell would never ever talk as Peep Show is awesome.

Yep, the fact he's a less charismatic Mark IRL kinda damages the show's legacy.

i need to watch ttoi like now.

Is Webb similarly a chill dude like Jeremy?

oh yeah, the reason i haven't watched the thick of it is that hulu puts an ad on every six minutes.

Veep wipes the floor with The Thick of It.

absolutely. banged on about this at length elsewhere on here but TTOI is flawed in so many badly-written and depressing backslappy ways (esp later series) that Veep completely isn't. (and sorry to sound like a dick, ailsa, that kneejerk "you ARE joking right? i mean guys guys, this guy is CRAZY, right? everyone agrees with me on this right?! right?!" response is just one of them).

but yeah this is about mitchell and

a niche of self-consciousness about your values that refuses to criticize them and instead plays them as irony in the hope that other people will think you're joking about being a cunt

fucking nails it.

I braved ttoi, ads and all
This is brilliant, vile and very very funny

No, that's fair enough. I found the first series of Veep (haven't seen the second) to be too slapsticky vs the bitterness of TTOI, but my initial reaction was a bit overboard though, it's true, and it did improve as the season went on.

Is Webb similarly a chill dude like Jeremy?

Pretty sure he's a Tory so idk.

he's probly made a small fortune from no discernible talent, i'd be pretty chill in those circs

Pretty sure he's not.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7599102/General-Election-2010-Who-are-these-floating-voters-Most-people-decided-how-to-vote-years-ago.html

I think one problem with Mitchell's schtick is that he's not actually old enough to remember the things – culture, atmosphere, social conventions - that he's supposed to be nostalgic about.

The 'David Mitchell' type, which David Mitchell plays, hasn't felt at home in Britain since at least the 60s. People actually living through the 1960s, whether they're for or against the changes they see around them, at least have a perspective informed by direct experience of social change.

But for the DM type, the good old days are always something that should have happened long enough ago to be dimly remembered, but recently enough to have a reality, so that it's like a longing for something you knew, rather than an idiosyncratic attachment to historical artefacts. But the actual, historical watershed moment - the 60s - is a long, long time ago. So it becomes deeply suspicious to see people like DM going around 'remembering the good old days'.

Xp, thanks for correcting me. I could have sworn I remembered an interview in which he was saying he was voting for Boris Johnson but maybe I'm mixing him up with someone else.

Final series starts 11th of November.

!!! That snuck up out of nowhere!

so looking forward to this. Last series was the first one where I thought p much the whole series was a bit off the boil, but it's still better than most other current stuff.

Looking forward immensely. Will be weird when it's finished though, it's been on tv for over a third of my life.

Yeah, last series just kind of...stopped in a really awkward way. Peep Show gets a lot of slack from me, though, for being overall one of the best shows of all time.

My first Christmas in the US, I watched the Peep Show Christmas ep and all was right again

I take it back about s8, the paintballing one was ace

Yayyyyyy

don't ever watch this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Yredc3ayOE&feature=youtu.be

Ouch. That Big Bang Theory dude and Seth Myers' brother? INSPIIIIRED CASTING.

First episode was a riot.

this was p good i thought, yeah. nice slot for tim key. the scene where they fantasised about poisoning him was hilarious.

no way to get this in US except torrents huh?

Yeah, many laughs to be had. Right back on form.

sober hans

"It's degenerated!"
"I knew it would."

no way to get this in US except torrents huh?

It's on Youtube right now.

thanks

last night's was even better

Oh shit I completely forgot!

jez's speech was great. another good episode.

toast of london was p funny too.

i never liked toast but after seeing matt berry on vic & bob i've softened to him and i'll admit to liking this one - it's got more heart than i had credited it for

good episode. i lol'd hard at jez's face when hans tells him to freestyle the speech. also the twins!

We ended up immediately rewinding the scene when Superhans asks Mark to be his best man. Three times. "You're a meat-and-potatoes, straight-up-and-down, Beef-Wellington, Don’t-trust-the-Argies, dick-in-the vagina, cheddar-cheese and chicken-tikka-masala-man".

Hans is owning this season so far.

"I can move move move any mountain"

Mark's reaction to "Simon" was great.

hiding in a bathroom, crushing candy and quoting shakespeare; the confused high-point of western civiliation

We ended up immediately rewinding the scene when Superhans asks Mark to be his best man. Three times. "You're a meat-and-potatoes, straight-up-and-down, Beef-Wellington, Don’t-trust-the-Argies, dick-in-the vagina, cheddar-cheese and chicken-tikka-masala-man".

― Matt DC, Friday, November 20, 2015 10:12 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao

Feel like they're going all-out with this series

Yesterday's was fantastic

Yeah, absolutely hysterical. Particularly Mark not blinking.

yeah it's going out on a high so far. yesterday's felt like vintage peep show. they've had a few good episodes were an awkward, mismatched gathering in their flat involving different levels of subterfuge and quickly descends into recriminations and that was as good as any other.

they've had a few good episodes were an awkward, mismatched gathering in their flat involving different levels of subterfuge and quickly descends into recriminations and that was as good as any other.

This week's was the best of this series thus far. A bit on the broad side but they've earned the right to have fun with things at this point. I'm seriously going to miss these characters.

this week's really was all-time wasn't it

i had forgotten how much peep show had pioneered the art of uncomfortableness in modern tv comedy - not exactly cringe comedy a la the office but something stronger

"I'm eating a Fruit Corner, Jez"

or something like that. Killed me.

best episode in living memory