Peep Show: Season 01
The first season of the bawdily hilarious British sitcom Peep Show uses advanced camera and sound techniques to provide a "p.o.v." squint at contemporary manners and mores, as conveyed through the eyes and the innermost thoughts of two twentysomething losers. Mark (David Mitchell) works at a dull job in a duller office, where he obsesses over his co-worker Sophie (Olivia Colman)... (read more) -- who, alas, prefers the company of go-getter Geoff (Neil Fitzmaurice). Mark's roommate, Jeremy, aka "Jez" (Robert Webb), aspires to be a pop star (his band has already gone through several names, among them Hair Blair Bunch and Spunk Bubble), but lacks such qualities as ambition and drive. Jez' dream girl is Toni (Elizabeth Marmur), the divorcée who lives next door. In the course of the season's six episodes, a third party threatens to disrupt Mark and Jez' friendship, prompting Jez to briefly consider moving in with his manipulative musician buddy Super Hans (Matt King) -- who repays this "compliment" by bedding Toni; Mark manages to embarrass himself in full view of Sophie, Geoff, and half of South London when he gets stoned at the wrong time and wrong place; and finally, Mark finally gets Sophie to go out with him to a funeral, while in a related development Jez uses the imminent death of his uncle as an excuse to lay hands on Toni. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Producer(s):
- Barry Read, Philip L. Clarke, Philip Clarke