Peep Show (now with added Mitchell & Webb Look)

"well that was actually probably my favourite line of the two!"

Perhaps inevitably it was a bit of a disappointing last episode - but what a fantastic run since 2003. I'm really going to miss it.

The last one oddly enough was the weakest. The kidnapping was a bit too ridiculous.

But the thing I felt I'd miss was Super Hans. I was marvelling at his eyes.

yeah it was a bit weak. jesus christ 'toast of london' is an awful show

That didn't feel like a last show, but then anticlimax seems appropriate.

I haven't actually seen it yet, though im not worried about spoilers, but i can't imagine a finale of peep show being anything other than underwhelming or anticlimactic. wouldn't be in the nature of the show to have a resolution, certainly wouldn't be consistent for them to have a happy ending, and in keeping with the general futility and self-inflicted misery of the el dude brothers' sad-sack lives i fully expect the show to end with them in much the same state as when the show started.

That all makes sense but it just wasn't that great an episode in general. I'm not pissed about it but I thought it deserved something a bit better.

I liked it a lot (tho agree ANOTHER kidnapping a bit ott) but bloody recording chopped off what I assume was the last couple of lines :(

**SPOILER**

I almost thought Mark was going to win for a bit although I guessed who'd sent the text

**MORE SPOILERS**

Yeah I guessed who sent the text but thought they'd actually gone

Thought it was a good ending tho.

The last line is important.

"have you been pissing in my piss?"

series 9 began stronger than it finished def, thinking back to hanses party & bagging up the prior rmmate bloke lol

I really enjoyed this as a finale, reminded me of the Father Ted finale a bit, this glimmer of light that things might actually change, but no, this purgatory lasts forever. I'm glad they didn't sugar the ending.

Loved the reveal that when it comes to relationships and living arrangements, Hans is way more Mark than Jez.

It was a perfectly fitting finale, I wasn't expecting some pull out all the stops extravaganza. There was probably the closest it's ever come to sentimentality in the central relationship, but all served with dollops of trademark cynicism and misanthropy.

A favourite bit(s) of mine that I often think of is Jez being disgusted by the Elgar bank note in two different scenes.

"Butter the toast, eat the toast, shit the toast. God, life's relentless."

"This is basically like watching porn, except I can't see anything, I haven't got a hard on, and I want to cry"

Anyone watching Mitchell/Webbs "Back" ?

I didn't know it existed. Would probably be pretty hard to divorce myself from thinking of them as Jez and Mark.

completely agree. The show presents them as fundamentally similar to those characters, but range is overrated anyway. Some good laughs, but not excellent like PS so far

I mentioned it on the Rolling Comedy thread. Felt like a pair of slippers where your toe sticks through and you can't find anywhere fresh to write on the sole with biro.

Made me chortle a couple of times, but yeah most of time I was thinking "What's Mark doing living in some village? Why are he and Jez pretending they've got different names, what are they up to?"

Did you guys have the same reaction to Sir Digby Chicken Caesar and his trusty sidekick Ginger?

Thanks for the heads up. I had no idea they were doing a new thing.

I can't believe ppl upthread were down on the mark's wedding episode. One of the best television episodes of anything ever

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D40- I agree.

I recall some ridiculous "I bet they're fucking tories" talk upthread.

Would probably be pretty hard to divorce myself from thinking of them as Jez and Mark.

OL OTM, it's not like they didn't have thriving, visible careers outside of Peep Show during Peep Show

yeah but everything they've done outside Peep Show has been awful

Counterpoint: you are wrong and what you said is wrong.

i think you'll find he's right.

I forgot to mention that they're also awful people

their careers outside of peep show: that mitchell and webb look and the bobbins film magicians, david mitchell writes for the guardian and appears on panel shows, robert webb wrote for the telegraph, and wrote a memoir, appears on panel shows

Awful people?

their careers outside of peep show: that mitchell and webb look and the bobbins film magicians, david mitchell writes for the guardian and appears on panel shows, robert webb wrote for the telegraph, and wrote a memoir, appears on panel shows

Don't forget their ads for Barclays bank.

I recall some ridiculous "I bet they're fucking tories" talk upthread.

they'd both probably consider themselves sensible centrists; RW a confirmed blue labour blairite sort & I'd guess DM an old school liberal by inclination, but ofc in ilx discourse both of these = tory

"but ofc in ilx discourse both of these = tory"

I'd probably stop clicking on ILX if it didn't have any posters that didn't hate on these odious, unfunny smug-cunts. Yours, a barrel of laughter and self-confessed "comedy lover" and lover of laughing etc...

dm in real life is like mark corrigan minus the charisma

his recent memoir was featured on R4 last week, it sounded like some real trite and dull shit. And this wasn't coloured by my complete dislike of these 2. It was awful writing, honestly!

Whose memoir? I'm sure they've both written memoirs and, if not, will probably have dashed one off for the Christmas market by the end of this month. I suppose reading about their terrible struggles to make any sort of living from performing, acting, writing, journalism, appearing on panel shows etc might be insightful to some any person looking to follow them into the terribly tough dog-eat-dog world of the British media.

It was DM's, and he is dealing with his masculinity issues + his tough upbringing on the mean streets of Lincolnshire. It is very "edgy", well maybe shit is the right word!

You mean RW not DM. Sorry just saw an article about RW and masculinity being retweeted a lot recently.

er.. that'll be the one.

He is a terrible writer, so any plaudits he is getting for tackling "serious issues" in that book are seriously misguided imo.

Again with the "odious"

Thanking u all for coming into a thread dedicated to something you don't like and letting us all know that you don't like it. This is some hot content.

Actually I think the thread is primarily dedicated to something people do like

Yes, I do like Peep Show, I even quite liked That Mitchell and Webb Look, but these two, especially Mitchell, are only what's bleedin' wrong with this bleedin' country.

yeah I think Peep Show is incredible. I don't have much feeling about Webb but Mitchell is a fucking annoying bore.

I definitely find the "tellin' it like it is" rants annoying* but I've found enough of his soapbox videos interesting and funny. Totally disagreed with a few but I don't think they're all to be taken seriously.
Occasionally you find out something that seems uncharacteristic: he thinks people should fart in public without embarrassment and necrophilia doesn't really bother him.

*buy I hate anyone taking that tone regardless of what they're saying. Most people who've been given a weekly platform to rant are going to get on your nerves.

I liked Peep Show but it's depressing as fuck - comedy torture porn, almost.

I'll happily watch it in five-minute YouTube chunks, but I can't handle it as a binge show. The nihilism gets tedious.

To each their own, of course.

But it's interesting that M&W have such a cosy reputation based on this unredemptive and brutally sad show.

As their individual, mediocre BBC-panel-show dickishness, it's not my thing, but they don't really seem worth the energy of hate.