Peep Show
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Series five
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Episode 1/6
Mark's marriage to Sophie failed after ten minutes and now he's back at the flat getting drunk and maudlin on wedding champagne. So at this early stage, can Jeremy help him rediscover the joys of single life by taking him on a double date? And after the duo become victims of crime, what chain of events leads Mark to be sitting on a child in the hallway of their flat?
RT Choice (Alison Graham, 2 May 2008)
[ ]I adore Peep Show and I adore Mark and Jeremy, an amiable pair of misfits trapped in a squalid, mutually destructive friendship. Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain's script is packed with the kind of quotable funny lines that should be on T-shirts, and Mitchell and Webb are both just marvellous.
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Episode 2/6
Mark and Sophie are back at work after their non-honeymoon. The news that Mark jilted his bride has, of course, spread throughout the office, so he decides to approach this potentially difficult situation as a PR exercise - "I'll Mandelson her". Meanwhile, Jeremy once again falls under the spell of the depraved Super Hans as their band plays its first gig.
RT Choice (Alison Graham, 9 May 2008)
Be warned - if you're of a delicate disposition, you might have to watch this from behind a very heavy gauze. Or maybe even hide in the spare room for the duration. Yes, it's that filthy. But it's literate and clever. Really, it is.
So prepare for more gut-wrenching embarrassment as estranged newly-weds Mark and Sophie return to work[ ]
[ ]there are endless, appalling humiliations, not just for Mark[ ] but also for his useless flatmate Jeremy[ ] Peep Show might be mucky, but it's also splutteringly funny. -
Episode 3/6
Jeremy has no money and getting a job is out of the question - "there just aren't that many media positions out there". But if he can't pay rent, Mark wants him out of the flat. Could a sperm bank be the answer? Meanwhile, Mark is keen to convince Sophie that his life has moved on since their brief marriage and invites his appalling new Australian "girlfriend" to his birthday party.
RT Choice (Alison Graham, 16 May 2008)
[ ]It's one of those episodes that piles teeth-stripping humiliation upon humiliation[ ] -
Episode 4/6
Jeremy's mother comes to visit for a family funeral, bringing along her boyfriend, an ex-military man who Jeremy deeply resents and Mark idolises (It's Paddy Ashdown! It's Indiana Jones! It's Indiana Ashdown!). Desperate to impress, Mark endures an extraordinary ordeal, while Jeremy, learning that he's in line for a rather large inheritance, is characteristically quick to hit the self-destruct button.
RT Choice (Alison Graham, 23 May 2008)
[ ]As always, the poisonous dynamic between [Mark and Jeremy] very quickly destroys all their hopes. If there's a bleaker, cleverer, funnier comedy on television, I've yet to see it. -
Episode 5/6
It looks as if Jeremy and Super Hans's dreams of indie-rock stardom are about to be realised when their band, Curse These Metal Hands, gets a manager - a dreadful, appallingly forthright woman with whom Mark instantly falls in love. But things start to crumble when the band are booked to play a Christian rock festival and Mark comes along as a roadie.
RT Choice (Alison Graham, 30 May 2008)
[ ]It's yet another 30 minutes of profane joy stuffed with tiny comic jewels -
Episode 6/6
After taking a personality test, Jeremy realises that rather than a musical genius he is, in fact, "a misguided d***head". So he joins a cult, changes out of all recognition, and finally decides it's time he moved out of Mark's flat. Could this be the end of the "El Dude Brothers"? Meanwhile, Mark endures a disastrous final liaison with soon-to-be-ex-wife Sophie before Johnson orders him to top it all off by firing her.
RT Choice (Alison Graham, 6 June 2008)
[ ]There are so many almost weepingly funny moments, it's hard to single one out[ ]



