![]() ![]() ![]() I suspect, at bottom, that my devotion to Peep Show has to do with a gimmick. Even children’s shows, to review Cartoon Network's current offerings, are edgy these days. "Dark comedy," once a genuinely subversive kind of humor barely nudging its way into the periphery of the mainstream, has become in this decade the dull intentional standard for any comedy not literally shown on broadcast television and pitched to medical supply companies as a fine opportunity for reaching the catheter demographic. It isn’t the combination of the two elements, either. When Sam Bain, who wrote the series along with Jesse Armstrong, was asked what sociological themes he hoped viewers would take from the series, he answered, "The stubborn persistence of human suffering." It was funny. Failed vice presidential candidate turned Speaker of the House Paul Ryan’s beard is hilarious, and I never want to see that again. But then one of them I’ve only seen half of.īut lots of things are funny. Of the half-dozen movies I call my favorites, I’ve watched only one of them twice. I’ve rarely even second-screened a single episode of anything, unless, and begrudgingly still, in the service of showing it to someone else. I am not an obsessive viewer of anything I have never seen another television series more than one time through. But by this time next year, it would not be unreasonable to assume I will have seen them each at least a dozen times. At present, I have only seen the final six episodes once. In the seven years between then and now, there have been very few weeks in which I have not watched at least one of its 54 episodes, and few months in which I have not rewatched the entire available series. I have been watching Peep Show since 2008. Despite the series' regular lip-sucking-sound grotesquery of kissing and sex shot entirely in the first person, it was unsexy to the end. In the end, we got to watch those two men - Mitchell’s Mark Corrigan and his co-star Robert Webb’s Jeremy Usborne - age all the way into their 40s.Īfter nine seasons, which all told required 12 years under notoriously lax British television production ethic to complete, Peep Show aired its final episode on December 16, 2015. "Which seems to me to be writing a check with the title," he went on, "that the content - constant footage of two pallid men in their 30s aging in real time - will emphatically fail to honor." Taken along with the late-night slot on Channel 4, the first-time viewer would not be unreasonable to expect titillation." "I’ve never been personally that crazy about the name of the Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show," David Mitchell, who is incidentally the star of Peep Show, said in a 2011 YouTube video.
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