![]() Whilst it was great to see Neil Fitzmaurice’s Jeff appear for a final trademark sneer, it was even more satisfying to finally see Johnson enjoy more than a glorified cameo, as (not for the first time) he unceremoniously severed ties with the hapless Mark whilst delivering a couple of real zingers (“I’m sorry Mark, you just stepped into the arena naked and in a few seconds wild beasts are going to fly to your delicate areas and tear you to shreds”). Mark’s sacking by Croydon’s biggest-balls-to-the-wall bank manager served time on a relationship that Johnson himself had once described as being a power-broking match made in heaven (“I’m going to be Charles and you’ll be my Camilla”). Mark’s desperate attempts to resuscitate his relationship with April via fax was matched only by Jez’s series of increasingly outlandish age-equations in classic Usbourne fashion, Jez’s reasoning bore little resemblance to a cognisant argument, sounding instead more like some mid-life crisis-themed episode of Numberwang.Īnd so began the downward spiral. The episode opened by mining one of Peep Show’s most reliable sources of laughs throughout the years flying defiantly in the face of all reason, both Mark and Jez continued to harbour their own piteous self-delusions. The End Times finally came to Peep Show and inevitably enough, with all the cards finally on the table we learnt that in the sad, self-absorbed lives of Mark and Jez, the more things change, the more they stay the same. At some point, fate takes over a story and even the author himself loses control.” If last week’s doom-tinged episode of Peep Show was the harbinger of a dark fate, this week saw the apocalypse itself unfold in all its lovely destructive glory. Characters often find themselves in unwinnable situations.A renowned novelist (well, an actor pretending to be a renowned novelist in Showtime’s The Affair) once said “if you’ve laid all your cards out in the proper order, the ending should flow. I guess that’s a long winded way of saying that although it’s a “cringe comedy” it’s quite a bit more dynamic usually than most others. He’s got a vested interest in this because he directly vouched for Character A, and there’s no right way to play the situation because no matter what he does he either comes off as untrustworthy or an asshole to his own boss. The comedy of this scenario would come from Character B trying to carefully juggle controlling Character A and diffuse the situation. In Peep show, the same scenario would also insert Character B into the interview as a someone who directly vouched for Character A. The comedy would be in the awkwardness of the perspective of the interviewer. ![]() I guess the best way for me to describe the comedy of it would be that usually shows based on cringe comedy (like The Office, for example) would have a scenario like this:Ĭharacter A is interviewing for a job and pretends to have a mental handicap for whatever reason. The lower production value makes it aged a bit more poorly than those others, but I think the actual comedy has aged better than any of them (despite being an American, so I can’t relate with some things) ![]() It’s only matched by Seinfeld/Curb/IASIP. ![]() Brilliantly written, genuinely one of the funniest comedies of all time IMO. Peep show is my favorite series of all time. R/television's favorite shows of all time (2022 edition) >!Spoiler!!Television!< becomes Television Links ![]()
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