Peep Show (now with added Mitchell & Webb Look)

Season 5 is brilliant - so glad they turned it around after the totl drop in quality in season 4. My fave episode is the magic mushrooms/toilet door one from Season 3.

BTW if anyone's thinking of getting any of the past series on DVD then you can buy the season 1-4 box set for peanuts on HMV... £18 delivered

http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=2590;-1;-1;-1&sku=703800&WT.ac=offer_of_the_week-PBODY-offer_of_the_week_2-703800

Gah, it was £16 as well...

Pretty fucking great.

"Not proper rape, like up the bum or anything."

Jeremy's become too much of a dick as a character. Good Superhans and "Mark isn't very good at being an intellectual" lolz though, so they're getting the basics of the show right.

Jeremy's total cuntishness toward his mum could've been subtler. Great episode nonetheless, this continues to be the darkest since S2.

i dunno. i thought that one was a bit overplayed -- ciphers rather than characters. like some of the more excessive bits of the last series, it just didn't quite hang together as an entirely credible sequence of events.

the nicholas lyndhurst gag made me choke laughing, mind.

Aye, I know some people who've been cunts to their mums, but Jeremy was just a step too far last night, I think.

it just didn't quite hang together as an entirely credible sequence of events

This is what I've thought about the whole series really.

Not that credability is necessary for laughs of course, just that they were more believable, now they're just horrible.

Yeah but the scene with Mark at dinner with Jeremy's mum and that dude was sort of amazing.

*i would literally stab a baby*

And I've got a tiramisu!

I was in stitches through most of this episode, esp Mark doing 'the pause'.

"don't pause, Mark, you're not Davina"

Older people are still people, they're just people who think that when they open a window on the computer, the previous window's disappeared for good.

More than any other, this series has been about Jez and Mark spitefully sabotaging each other.

so this season is "mark goes girl crazy" with a different "one" every week?

I don't think you can really say that was Mark going girl crazy. Dude was a rape victim.

This was easily the funniest episode in, well, years. Also bonus points for containing the funniest Superhans moments ever. They've cottoned onto the fact that the humour in Superhans isn't having him do pure druggy slapstick but instead just laying it on thick with the faux-authoritative pronouncements. His cure for cancer stuff had me in stitches very early on, plus the way he went "rape, classic case".

OTM.

Superhans surely ripe for a spin off series where he's a detective or something.

Would pre-order dvd right now.

what's odd about this show is how ludicrous the plot is but how great and real some of the guest characters seem to be.

Now caught up with almost every episode - have only series 4 ep 6 and series 5 ep 1 to watch, which we'll do tonight.

I wouldn't say series 4 is quantifiably 'worse' than 1-3, but the dead dog thing is very, very close to being a jump-the-shark moment, and makes other things (getting Matt the personal trainer sacked, etc) look worse by reflecting badly upon them with hindsight. The desperation in Jeremy's eyes as he took a bite out of the dog made us laugh, but it wasn't a... it was laughing because it was ludicrous and stupid rather than because it was funny, you know?

Looking forward to seeing how the wedding goes...

i think i saw in the credits that this ep wasn't written by bain and armstrong BTW

The latest episode or the dog-eating episode?

sorry, the recent one.

Dom right about Jeremy, he now has no redeeming features, so isn't as funny

Jeremy that is, errrrrrr, not Dom

I can kind of accept Jeremy becoming less sympathetic / more psychotic over the arc of the program; he's been completely divorced from society and most normal social contact for five years now, it makes sense that he's going pretty insane.

Completely divorced from society? He's had two totally hot girlfriends for a start!

Exactly! Nothing normal about that!

(zing retracted)

I wouldn't say series 4 is quantifiably 'worse' than 1-3, but the dead dog thing is very, very close to being a jump-the-shark moment, and makes other things (getting Matt the personal trainer sacked, etc) look worse by reflecting badly upon them with hindsight. The desperation in Jeremy's eyes as he took a bite out of the dog made us laugh, but it wasn't a... it was laughing because it was ludicrous and stupid rather than because it was funny, you know?

Totally OTM.
Also I think there needs to be a Jeremy episode where he tries, properly, for a bit, to do something normal. I liked when he did Mark's stag do for him.

Yeah; that effort he made, putting all Mark's favourite things together, was really touching. of course he fucked it up, but he's Jeremy.

It was touching when he got Mark that violin with Johnson's stolen credit card as well. He loves Mark more than vice versa.

It's reciprocal love, they are both incapable of living without the other, Mark just doesn't realise it.

That's the message of this series, yeah. They do seem to be laying it on a bit hard though. Some suggestions that they're taking a lot of inspiration from Curb Your Enthusiasm and its "series arcs", which is visible in at least the last two series.

I'd never have dreamt from the first 4 series that I'd be finding Peep Show borderline erotic - but first the Dobby scene and then the dominant band manager yesterday...

Maybe it's helping me to re-connect with a overlooked sordid part of myself.

Please tell me you're not including wanking over a banknote in that.

ha ha - ailsa, I nearly spat out my lunch laughing!

No - for some reason I only seem to empathise with Mark's inadequacies..

Which sadly probably confirms that Guardian comment that all blokes watching Peep Show would like to be Superhans, believe they're probably more Jez, but are actually Mark.

all blokes watching Peep Show would like to be Superhans

Haha WHAT?!

the other time jez tried to do something normal (that i can remember) was when superhans got him a job in a recording studio - loved that episode

This episode was excellent.

It was so Series Two. I loved it. We haven't had such an outright episode-stealing female supporting character since ... probably the defendant in Jeremy's jury duty episode.

"mummy, coffee, hurry fucky uppy"

I like how the only reason they got a deal in the first place was because Psycho Dominatrix Woman had a load of record company budget to spend before the end of year, might as well waste it on these losers.

"sitting on a rock, crying and wanking"

That was a great flight of fancy, that sex therapist plane crash thing.

I think my favourite line came when Mark was mulling over the virtues of being told what to do in bed. "Is this humiliating? It is a bit humiliating. I guess the upside is that what I was doing before was humiliating in ways I wasn't even aware of".

Sixth series has been commissioned. I fear it may be one too far.