Peep Show (2003)

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   WhiteSox1

   There were 3 kinds of crisps!!! 12 years 6 months ago
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   mightysparks

   Are you trying to piss on my bonfire? 12 years 7 months ago
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   Siskoid

   David Mitchell and Robert Webb weaponized their sketch work into Peep Show, where they play unlikely flat mates, one uptight to the point of emotional crippling (guess which?), the other a dumb and venal layabout. The conceit (to explain the title) is that we see everything through someone's eyes, whether a main character or a passerby. When we're in the leads' heads, then we may also hear what they're thinking (I would have liked a weirdo episode where we hear the recurring guests' thoughts instead, but maybe that would have broken the mold). If your nastiest thoughts were exposed, you'd probably come off as a terrible person too, but these guys act on those thoughts more than they should, and you can squarely place this comedy in the cringe column as a result. I find Mitchell's character personally relatable, but the only thing that saves his and Webb's characters is that almost everyone else is just as bad or worse. It can be quite a pill to watch these in the span of a few days like I did. 9 seasons, 64 episodes, it got a little depressing by the end, in spite of the laughs. A great cast surrounds our hapless losers, including Olivia Coleman before she was as big a star as she is now, Rachel Blanchard (the Conchords' "Most beautiful girl in the room", and Paterson Joseph, whose performance as the bullshitting superboss makes me think that, yes, they were right to consider him for the role of Doctor Who at around this time. 3 months 3 weeks ago

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