Peep Show (2003)
- Directed by
- Jeremy Wooding
- Genre
- sitcom
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Length
- 9 seasons, 54 episodes
- Rated
- TV-MA
- Rating
- 8.0 of 10 from 438 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Two dysfunctional flatmates in South London navigate their sad lives and failed ambitions. Mark is a socially awkward loan manager and Jeremy is a lazy aspiring musician. The show uses point-of-view shots and voiceovers to reveal their unfiltered thoughts.
cringe-comedydeadpanawkwardunfilteredcynicalneuroticmundanedarkly funny
What happens
Peep Show is a British television sitcom starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb, and created by Andrew O'Connor, Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain. The series was written by Armstrong and Bain, with additional material by Mitchell and Webb, among others. It was broadcast on Channel 4 from 19 September 2003 to 16 December 2015. In 2010, it became the longest-running comedy in Channel 4 history in terms of years on air. The show uses point of view shots—giving the programme its title—with the thoughts of main characters audible as voiceovers. Peep Show follows the lives of dysfunctional best friends Mark Corrigan (Mitchell) and Jeremy "Jez" Usbourne (Webb) , who share a flat in Croydon, South London. Mark is a pessimistic, socially awkward loan manager who dreams of being a historian, while Jeremy is a perpetually unemployed layabout and failed musician who lives in Mark's spare room. The show has been described by Bain as portraying "the stubborn persistence of human suffering", while Armstrong said it was "about oddball male friendship, perhaps even 'masculinity'". Despite never achieving high viewing figures during its original run, Peep Show received consistent critical acclaim and has since become a cult classic. In April 2019, three years after its final episode, the series was named the thirteenth greatest British sitcom in a poll by Radio Times. It has also been described as one of the best television programmes produced in the 21st century, and one of the best comedy series of all time. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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