Returning to work after what should have been their honeymoon, Mark meets Sophie again, and unsurprisingly the entire office is on her side. If “On The Pull” was the episode that hooked me in the first place, “Spin War” showed it still had life in it after Mark and Sophie’s wedding. Mark carrying his shopping through most of the episode is a particular highlight, and the sheer bleakness of the two sexual encounters is pitch perfect for the show. This is the episode that got me truly hooked forever on Peep Show as more than just that internal-monologue show. The both end up going home with their dates, and having sex, but it’s not a particularly enjoyable experience for Mark or Jeremy. One is next door neighbour Toni (Jeremy’s early obsession), the other is Valerie, a young goth he met at the party. Mark and Jeremy go to a party, and end up going on a date with two girls to a bowling alley. This may be the perfect episode to introduce someone to the show. Jeremy’s debut with the band ends predictably in a humiliating fashion, and he ends up gatecrashing the dinner party and outing Mark as a simple bank worker, not a student. Mark still ends up going back to April’s room, but misses his chance, as April lets him know they have 3 years to be together.Ī brilliant episode, it felt like the entire characters of Mark and Jez were perfectly distilled into a 27 minute episode – before the reappearance of April in the last season, which could give it even more significance. Professor? He looks more like a Doctor to me. When the band gets a gig in Dartmouth, and Mark and Jez head south (the band don’t want Jez to travel with them) where Mark poses a mature student to spend some time with April, and they are invited to a dinner party with Professor McLeash: At the same time, Super Hans joins a band, and Jeremy tags along, allowed to play maracas. Mark meets April (Catherine Shepard), a pretty, shy, awkward soul salewoman, and so obviously becomes obsessed, and follows her to Dartmouth University when he finds out she has moved away. And yes, I refer to them as “seasons”, and the show as a whole is a “series”.ġ0 – “University Challenge” (Season 2, Episode 4) Firstly I haven’t seen all of them, and secondly I want to give the episodes (and last season) time to breathe before I include them. NB: this was written during the last season of Peep Show, so I’ve not included any of the last 6 episodes. Has the quality remained the same? I guess only by reading my list will you be able to find out… And the supporting characters are some of the most memorable in sitcoms, with Olivia Colman and Paterson Joseph becoming bigger stars than than the series’ leads.Īs the main players have gone on to bigger and more lucrative things, the output has become more sporadic, which has built expectations with each passing season. Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain crafted scripts that straddle both the mundane and the unbelievable. To celebrate Britain’s best current sitcom coming to an end, here’s my Top 10 episodes.įrom the first episode, I was hooked on Peep Show. The original premise of being able to hear the internal thoughts of the two main characters – and the POV camerawork – was entertaining enough, but the show would not have been able to sustain on just this gimmick.ĭavid Mitchell and Robert Webb have great chemistry (check out their sketch show if you haven’t already) and they make Mark and Jez into two of the best/worst characters on television.
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