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Peep Show

Started by Vince the Shirker, September 04, 2024, 06:11:58 PM

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chrispmartha

I usually do a full rewatch of Peep Show every few years, this thread has just reminded me I'm due another.

frajer

Sophie: I don't want you to resent our child. And when our child looks at you, I want them to see a happy, contented role model. Not some grey-faced, dull-eyed drone who's hated his job and his life for years.

Mark (inner monologue): Must ring Dad.

The Bumlord


Gulftastic

The Jez shagging Sophie's Mum plot is brief but brilliant. The scene where Mark finds out is one of the best in the whole series.

Sebastian Cobb


sevendaughters

Freedom, loyalty, commitment, monogamy. In a sense, that's the final taboo, isn't it?

There Be Rumblings

Quote from: extraordinary walnuts on September 05, 2024, 09:22:52 PM


That scene is so extraordinarily, understatedly brilliant.

No explanation or context given, just the whole family suddenly joining in with their ritual, that they've obviously done every year on Sophie's birthday since she was a little girl, without once stopping to think how weird it might look to outsiders. Also showing us more about Sophie's background than she's ever let on, that at heart she's still just the daddy's girl who dreamed of being a princess, despite how she strives to present herself.

All that from just a few seconds of coming down some stairs in a silly hat.

Incredible character work.

AngryGazelle

It's Ramadan over at his place but he's no muslim.

Red82

I can't believe people are so depressed and wounded by Peep Show.  Are you sure you're all remembering it right?  It's hardly Stroszek or an M Gira short story.

It's a fairly light hearted comedy series.

Quote from: There Be Rumblings on September 05, 2024, 10:38:51 PMThat scene is so extraordinarily, understatedly brilliant.

No explanation or context given, just the whole family suddenly joining in with their ritual, that they've obviously done every year on Sophie's birthday since she was a little girl, without once stopping to think how weird it might look to outsiders. Also showing us more about Sophie's background than she's ever let on, that at heart she's still just the daddy's girl who dreamed of being a princess, despite how she strives to present herself.

All that from just a few seconds of coming down some stairs in a silly hat.

Incredible character work.

It's an amazing scene. Everything in it is funny to me. The way Mark looks at Jez when the music starts, the way her brother "dances"... holy shit

Sebastian Cobb

That scene makes me feel viscerally uncomfortable.

jobotic

Thought I'd watch Series 3 again as I don't remember it that well at all.

"They say they want you to talk about your feelings but really they want you to beat and gouge your rivals"

idunnosomename

first two are genuinely superb, three starts to slide (never should have shown us Big Suze), four onwards I don't really like as they're too grotesque for the most part, but they're very rarely outright bad. Series 7 was a late peak, with what I've said before is a nice bottle episode where they're stuck in a porch ("Seasonal Beatings", ep. 5).

Four naan, Jeremy? Four? That's insane.

tourism

Quote from: Red82 on September 05, 2024, 10:48:33 PMI can't believe people are so depressed and wounded by Peep Show.  Are you sure you're all remembering it right?  It's hardly Stroszek or an M Gira short story.

It's a fairly light hearted comedy series.

no it's bleak and obvs a million times more relatable to anyone on cab than stroszek or whatever

Series four onwards is like I'm Alan Partridge series two or Curb beyond season five - absolutely all over the place but still funny enough that it doesn't really matter.

p.s. I like the episode when they eat the dog.

Jerzy Bondov

You said she was a knucklehead and she should knuckle down or you'd knuckle her fat head.

The Mollusk

"I was stuck at HSBC doing the 9 to 5."

"Yeah. Now you've got your room at the centre and you're making your masks."

Incredible world building for a character who has about three lines in one episode. Innocent enough to sound not entirely horrible but simultaneously so bleak and troubling in its vagueness, managing to frame the freedom of creative expression as worse than being a banker somehow.

mr. logic

Quote from: The Mollusk on September 06, 2024, 07:40:46 AM"I was stuck at HSBC doing the 9 to 5."

"Yeah. Now you've got your room at the centre and you're making your masks."

Incredible world building for a character who has about three lines in one episode. Innocent enough to sound not entirely horrible but simultaneously so bleak and troubling in its vagueness, managing to frame the freedom of creative expression as worse than being a banker somehow.

Also the implication that Superhans, who likes doing drugs and having sex with her, guided her towards that obviously suicidal life choice.

Red82

Quote from: tourism on September 06, 2024, 06:44:56 AMno it's bleak and obvs a million times more relatable to anyone on cab than stroszek or whatever

I don't find it bleak.  Even the sectioning episode is hilarious to me.

Maybe some Cab members are heavy depression sufferers so they see everything as bleak.

Utter Shit

Have a third go, maybe you'll finally make the impact you're looking for.

Jerzy Bondov

Listen love, a little tip. You're on the edge now and you need to pick the right way. Because one way's heaven, and the other, well, probably best not to think about that right now but it's fuckin 'orrible yeah

iamcoop

We are gonna have parties in this place that go beyond fun, and actually get really really nasty

mrpupkin

Always thought it a shame that Toni disappears after series one, one of my favourite non-el-dude-brother characters. Felt perfectly of the Peep Show universe in a similar way to Hans and Johnson, if that makes sense. Anyway, great lines, great performance.

Yes, we can see your hairy chest, and no, we're not impressed

You know he single-handedly created WOMAD?

Tony lost his licence to mind when he went off with a SCRUBBER CALLED LINDSEY

Jerzy Bondov

Toni is in series 2 as well. Ha! What an idiotic boob.

edit: She was great. Elizabeth Marmur was down to the final two to play Fran in Black Books did you know. She's retired from acting and teaches communication skills now.

Utter Shit

Quote from: Jerzy Bondov on September 06, 2024, 10:22:16 AMToni is in series 2 as well. Ha! What an idiotic boob.

edit: She was great. Elizabeth Marmur was down to the final two to play Fran in Black Books did you know. She's retired from acting and teaches communication skills now.

On a related note, Michelle, the woman that I assume was intended to be a sort of replacement Toni (either from Jez's perspective or from the writer's perspective) was the voice of Lara Croft in the early Tomb Raider games.

On an also-related note, at work I went to a communications workshop run by David Schaal, aka Jay's dad from the Inbetweeners, Glyn from the Office. If I'd have booked any other time slot that day it would have been him presenting the workshop, but he had some  NOBODY present mine instead.

timahall

I think it's weird that Toni is only mentioned once again after series 2.

The Mollusk

She's the beautiful poison my friend

Ornlu

Peep Show is incredibly, hard-hittingly bleak. For example, if you've ever been in a relationship that you entered out of convenience, or familiarity (I'm not proud of that), but were too much of a coward to really be honest to both yourself and the other person, so it continues until something as serious as marriage (thankfully not in my exact case). ("Well that's it. I've ruined my life. You only get one life, and I've ruined mine.")

Or if you've ever had an actual promising relationship derailed by the interloping feelings of someone cooler, slimmer and more conventionally attractive, and you know in your heart there's no way of stopping the inevitable resultant heartbreak. ("I'm sorry, what the fucking hell are you talking about?")

Or even if you just generally desire a carefree life where you have lots of casual sex with many different women, but know that you're too conventionally unattractive or shy or spineless to ever, ever achieve it, while you witness your friends pull it off regularly. ("I knew it! Everyone is secretly fucking behind my back!")

It hits upon these (particular-type-of-)male neuroses perfectly, mercilessly and relentlessly, in a way that I'd never seen fully realised in a piece of media before.

"Am I evil? I don't feel evil."

Ferris

You know the credo, Mark: sickness equals weakness.

The Bumlord

"Why do the people who want to talk about things always win? Why can't the people who don't want to talk about things win?"

Comes to mind fairly often.

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