Just finished Series 4 and the show is quite good, but I'm bugged by how all similar the storylines are. I know this isn't a plot-centric show but almost every episode is just some scheme related to sex and relationships. Getting a girlfriend, getting laid, getting back with an ex, trying to cheat, etc. Does the show start to exit this box anytime soon? I think my favorite episodes so far are the ones where Mark accidentally befriends a racist and Jez kills, cooks and eats a dog.
it's the one thing that's easiest to convey as an awkward situation. and i'm sure you've realized by now, the sole point of this show is to make you feel viscerally awakward, if by association with the characters
Whilst I like the show this is why I cannot watch the series for extended periods, it starts getting depressing.
OP here and I see what you mean. A few episodes got very dark very fast to my surprise
Which ones would you say got particularly dark? I've binged it a few times and think I must be desensitised to it
Mark started doing self-cutting out of nowhere. I'd call that dark by comedy standards.
>every episode is just some scheme related to sex and relationships. Getting a girlfriend, getting laid, getting back with an ex, trying to cheat, etc.
that's practically just life in the UK, that's all anyone does really
damn. horrifying.
Fancy a shag?
Go on then. Show us ya minge.
>Does the show start to exit this box anytime soon?
No, we live simple and boring lives in the UK. we get drunk and we mate, that's it.
i think shows like this lost any impact when smartphones meant we could see videos of real people getting embarrassed in everyday situations
Also we have an online community and interest cross section. we have access to our specific version of everything, including periodic embarrassing moments involving Cinemaphile and TV actors like snapping stalker pics of Chloe Grace mortez eating lunch
It's a britbong version of cgdct
>Getting a girlfriend, getting laid, getting back with an ex, trying to cheat, etc.
What else is there to do when you are a broke idiot with no skills?
post on Cinemaphile
Does bong life have constant hopeless dystopian nightmare overtones like this show depicts? I've been to the UK once and noticed that everyone walked around with an "it's over" expression.
a decade of Tory rule will do that to you
Will surely be sunshine and rainbows once Sir Keir comes in and pumps our immigration numbers up to a mil a year.
>the only other option is Kier
There is no hope in the British political spectrum. If only Peep Show knew how dire things were going to get
as opposed to the current literal pajeet government?
keir was director of public prosecutions and let jimmy saville off
What do you think the conservatives have been doing fricktard?
>up to a mil a year
They already hit that under the Tories mate.
Different party same story.
>but now we all now how it works
what did he mean by this
Tony Blair government was largely successful in terms of economic policy
lmao no it wasn't.
All Blair did was borrow heavily to fund unsustainable social services.
That's literally the same thing Hitler did in Germany only he started WW2 as the debt repayments were about to hit
you're a fricking idiot
neoliberalism, aka sell off everything, cut taxes for the well off and watch public services deteriorate
typo?
bedwetter
and brexit hasn't helped
Brits tend not to smile at everything, there’s significantly less of the toxic positivity you see in a lot of other countries (like the US), generally people don’t expect each other to pretend to put on a happy face, most usually save that for the pub.
This is such hilarious brit cope.
>toxic positivity
>"we just don't smile at EVERYTHING liek you AMERICANS DO"
buddy hate to break it to you, even your neighbours call you out for being historic doomers.
>neighbours
i assume you mean the scots
genuinely don't know
no, the dutch, the norwegians, the french...sometimes, the danes, spain, portugal.
you're literally further removed from eastern europe than anyone besides iceland but you live it down and larp as them more than anybody.
i'm not from the uk nor was i the guy you were originally responding to, it was actually a genuine curious question
Nope being a gloomy sadist is one of the unified British traits, he probably means the F*ench.
I thought we were stereotyped as downplaying everything both good and bad and being hard to read
that could also apply to the japanese or the danish based off what i've heard
Haven't had many experiences of Danes but I think Japs are quite a bit like us: lots of rules, polite but hide their true feelings, drive on the left, constitutional monarchies
Being British of Danish descent and having spent a little time in Denmark, I'd say Danes are both shyer and less fastidious than Britons on the whole. In some ways they remind me of Germans, without the stick up their arse about efficiency while still being very competent. I liked it there, it was quiet. Flying back into Manchester airport, the first thing I saw stepping off the plane was posters the government had put up proudly indicating that police have bodycams recording at all times. I wanted to die; at the museum I went to in Aarhus, they had a coat rack at the front desk, people were just leaving them there, no locks or anything.
never been to either but I've always assumed denmark would be a better place to visit/live than england
>at the museum I went to in Aarhus, they had a coat rack at the front desk, people were just leaving them there, no locks or anything.
It's funny because you used to be able to do this in the UK as well. I wonder what happened to cause this cultural divergence between these two European nations. Very curious indeed
>they had a coat rack at the front desk people were just leaving them there
I mean it was literally like that in the UK up til the 90s and possibly into the 2000s in many places.
Yes, there's a reason we drink so much and take so many drugs.
Weather is grim, most cities have dogshit living conditions, the government tries to frick us in the arse at every possible point and the country is becoming less and less relevant in the international setting
it's over
Only if you live in a big town or city. The countryside is lovely. Quiet, great views, clean air, no brown people... everything a man could want.
that's just what they look like
Nah it's alright , most people are moronic npcs though
Basically yes.
The British are a buck broken nation where class structure is adamantium in terms of "rich are rich and can do whatever the frick they want and everyone else is either poor with no chance of escaping poverty or middle class but basically a slave caste for the elite and will never become rich enough to join the ranks of the elite unless by some slim chance you marry into an elite family".
Brits are also indoctrinated at birth into becoming obedient slaves, either wage slaves or soldier slaves, with the later reflecting the military being run by psychopaths who gleefully waste the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldier who are expected to die on orders from above even if the orders are moronic as frick since the military top brass will never admit they fricked up.
There is a lot of corruption too within the elite, a lot of angsts because Britain is no longer the world's top dog after WW2, the economic hell of the 1970s and how Labor fricked up so badly in those years that the Tories effectively have gained a strangehold over power and how even "New Labor" was basically Tony Blair running shit as a stealth Tory.
Very astute, genuinely accurate and comprehensive breakdown of why it's shite here.
The funny thing is though, that despite class being the great divider in the UK we've started importing American social problems and focusing more on race and gender.
It's fricking bleak here, and whilst materially there's a lot of wealth in the country and (relatively) low crime rates, there's an overwhelming cultural malaise and no sign of things getting better any time soon.
haha what a post
yorkshire here, rings 100% true
Where's the dubs anon?
The dubs, where are the dubs?
No dubs?
That was your job! You fricking piece of shit! You're a shithead, that's what you are, a fricking shithead!
Sadly there are several points where it looks like they’re going to shake things up a bit by throwing in things like weddings and kids but the writers clearly get nervous and just push potentially interesting new angles off to the side. At its best it’s hilarious but by the end it feels extremely tired because they refuse to lean into letting things change a bit with time
the whole theme of the show is how they will not change for the better due to constant self sabotage, and the wedding failing show is some of the funniest shit I've ever seen.
>Hortencia!?
>the whole theme of the show is how they will not change
OP here, I've caught on to that, but I don't know if 9 seasons is really necessary for such a basic theme. I'm not even halfway done and I do wish the show would try to change things up, even if it just means new characters.
It's not, the first 5-6 seasons are 10/10. The last few drop down to like a 7. Enjoyable, very good even, but you notice a drop from the golden age.
Huh. Well I guess I'll do my best to really savor seasons 5 and 6 this weekend, then.
>the whole theme of the show is how they will not change for the better due to constant self sabotage
sure but why does it always have to be self sabotaging jobs and relationships, why can't it also be some new bizarre hobby or an episode where they travel out of the country for once. this is an episodic show, they should have the freedom to introduce new elements more often, especially if so many storylines already aren't going anywhere
They're base creatures, they only seek fricking and comfort. episodes where mark branches out and tries to do something like play with gerard's toys or write a book show how he fails because he cannot put effort into things.
>They're base creatures, they only seek fricking and comfort.
I guess I just feel it seems a bit redundant having them both be sex pests. If only Jez were the poon hound and Mark had other concerns that'd be better, but both of them being obsessed with fricking just feels monotonous in some episodes. I wish the show would contrast the two instead of them just being basically the same except Mark actually has a real work ethic.
>i wish chocolate was strawberry
great thread m8
literally not an argument
>I wish this show was a different type of show
What's to argue against?
i never said that either moron
Maybe How I met Your mother is more up you're alley buddy
saw two episodes thought it sucked ass
right because peep show would never do something so exaggerated, childish and silly like jerking off to elves or getting fricked in the ass by your girlfriends' dildo strap on lmao. fricking idiots.
>why can't it also be some new bizarre hobby or an episode where they travel out of the country for once
British shows don't really do this
Should they introduce poochie the dog too? God lord do I fricking hate Americans.
>wanting new activities is le burger cartoon goyslop
is this also why britbongs have such shit food? complete allergies to anything even remotely new or exciting?
Not everything in the real world is sunshine and rainbows, fricking yank
Where did I ask for more optimistic content, moron?
I just wanna frick and suck
Real life has repetition and routine. Its deep art n shit.
It took me a while to figure out that Mark was a really terrible person
How?
Oh no, I think we found one of the absolutely dreadful losers that self inserts as Mark. Poor moronic butthole
It's not super obvious at first but I feel like you realize around 10 episodes in that he's more than just an obsessive stalker (or at least stalker wannabee) and is genuinely just an evil coward. He lacks the spine to act on the vast majority of evil shit he desires in his head.
>show about two losers living in a flat doesn't have diamond heists and a full-scale recreation of the Battle of Helm's Deep
Woah.
Post your favorite line. Mine has to be Men with Ven.
Series 5 episode 1 when Mark says he'll physically stand in Jez's way from banging Big Suze because of his chlamydia and Jez goes "If I have to frick you to frick her, then I will."
lmao which episode?
S09E01
think what it's doing to the mechanism
Good choice
Then I now pronounce you man and wife
>Mark and Sophie sob
sucky fricky is not a long term plan
FOUR NAAN JEREMY, FOUR?
That's insane.
I know how they feel. You buy classic but classic keeps changing
You dick pull!!
>TUMOR THE SIZE OF A PINEAPPLE
Also all the conversation Mark and Jeremy have in the church, in the marriage episode.
Season 9 was such a letdown
>1 of the 2 main characters has homosexual fantasies about le professional respectable Black person
>the other main character later also gets homosexual
Stopped watching there, sorry I'm just not britbong enough
You stopped watching because it hit too close to home for you
>peep show
>fresh meat
>this country
>the thick of it
>inbetweeners
>dead pixels
>monkey dust
>this is England
>people just do nothing
>bad education
>back
Which other British kinos are worth watching?
not television but in the loop. made by peep show and thick of it writers
darkplace obviously
IT crowd is very comfy
The IT Crowd is so fricking good. I remember way back people would dismiss it as "The Big Bang Theory for bongers".
People compare Big Bang theory to IT crowd? What a cope. They are miles apart aside from that asinine laugh track.
Do people really go “Nerds+Comedy, must be some version of BAZINGA”
You should check out the US Pilot for The IT Crowd.
>Joel McHale as Roy
>Two annoying yank c**ts as Jen and Debnam
>Moss is inexplicably played by Richard Ayoade reprising the role
I'd rather watch the German version.
>german Roy is in prison for raping a teenager
for some reason I can't get into the IT crowd, same with veep but I'll give it another go
In that case, start with the second season of IT Crowd.
veep doesn't kick into high gear until season 3. first 2 seasons are decent but nothing special
Spaced by Edgar Wright.
Spaced
Garth Marenghi's Dark Place
Mighty Boosh (for your early 00's LOLRANDUM xD humour)
Keeping Up Appearances
Yes, Primeminister.
Waiting For God
Keeping Up Appearances
Allo Allo
Never heard of Waiting For God. What i's about?
Monkey Dust for UK dystopia kino
I'm Alan Patridge season 1 (travel tavern)
Is there anywhere I can stream this if I'm a burger? Seems like something I would enjoy
https://1337x.to/torrent/4589851/Peep-Show-2003-Season-1-9-S01-S09-Extras-576p-1080p-DVD-AMZN-WEB-DL-x265-HEVC-10bit-AAC-2-0-Ghost-QxR/
soap2day
watch32
putlocker.pe
You can buy the box set online
I hope you pirates are proud of yourselves for stealing from the staff that made it
The whole show is just on yt
I love this show but there are several scenes which I just find too hard to watch because the cringe is too intense
I don't think I've seen anything that bad yet but I've come close multiple times.
Criticism generally works by pointing out something undesirable and wishing it were better - i.e. different.
The main premise of the show is that the characters trap themselves in loops of self destruction. He's not even arguing that it's done badly, just that he doesn't like that premise. What discussion is there to be had around that? I don't go into fishtank threads to say that I prefer non-livestream shows.
Sigh. For like the fourth time, I like the premise of self sabotage, it just gets boring seeing it only applied to women and sex over and over. Let them be failure doofuses over something else for a change like playing a sport, trying to quit drinking, trying to be the alpha male, etc. Imagine if the only thing Tony Soprano talked about in therapy was his marriage and his sex life. Shit would get old fast.
>typing the word sigh
While I'm reticent to try to convince an obvious homosexual to see reason, what you described happens. Mark tries to be an alpha like Johnson and ends up confused about his sexuality because he's such a frickup. Jez tries to run a pub but is unable to exert any willpower against super hans. Mark makes a genuine friend who shares his interest but uses him being racist as an excuse to distance himself. Jez tries and fails constantly to be a musician. Now have a nice day and then go back to plebbit.
>1 episode about a pub
>a couple episodes about music
>25 episodes about fricking (gay boss bromance counts)
wow anon you sure showed me, i feel so owned and outsmarted
I'm not going go through the gimmick of every episode, your prolapsed colon has already proven you can't be satisifed. You should watch the new seasons of it's always sunny in philadelphia. They do wacky things like go to ireland! Much more your speed.
>I have no argument or evidence
Concession accepted.
It’s a great show but the last few seasons are pretty awful.
yeah they're not great
I think 1-6 were outstanding, 7 was ok then the last two were pretty weak
the social commentary is so poor compared to the early seasons and the characters got flanderised to hell
You're right, it's just the same formula stretched over 9 seasons. It's why it's not as relevant as other British comedies despite having 54 episodes. Father Ted & IT crowd only had 25 episodes, and even the Inbetweeners only had 18. The show obviously has its moments but when the focus of the show is having unlikable characters in cringe situations it gets boring quickly if you binge it
Seasons 5-7 are the peak of the show. That's a minority opinion, for some reason most agree that season 4 is the peak. I've never understood why, for me season 4 was fairly meh outside of some 10/10 episodes.
You should give The Thick of It a try instead if you want a political comedy, same writers worked on that as well. Incredibly underrated, wish there was something else like it that isn't Veep.
I like the thick of it fine, my only criticism would be that pretty much every character talks in the exact same voice with the verbose insults
On the other hand, that is also what makes it one of the most quotable shows to exist.
> talks in the exact same voice with the verbose insults
Only Tucker and Jamie are like this, though. And Jamie is basically Malcolm junior.
I'm planning on watching Thick of It right after Peep Show. Already seen Veep too
The Thick of It is better than Veep for sure. I still liked Veep a lot, and I really didn't want to be one of those "it fell off after season 5 because the original writers left" homosexuals going in, but I guess I wound up being one of those homosexuals because the show went from a 9/10 to a 7/10.
There are two hour-long specials in between seasons 2 and 3. Watch them before season 3, a lot of people miss them which sucks because they're hilarious.
Thanks for the heads up
Sex with Dobby in the stationery cupboard.
the best ep is when Jez and Superhans join the cult
Honestly, as a brit the only thing that keeps me from killing myself is the idea of going every summer to Spain, get wasted and frick colombian trannies. I wish I was joking.
>colombian trannies
omega based. i love sara salazar
I never felt so much loved as that night I spent in Madrid with Sofia, a she male from Medellin that was looking for a better life in Europe. Those women know how to make you feel like a man
why spain and not brazil or colombia
probably correct
>words give me the ick
ywnbaw
>why spain and not brazil or colombia
I'm poor and a London-Madrid flight can cost you 40 pounds with Ryanair. Plus Madrid and Barcelona are full of wiener hungry southamericans looking for a better future
ahh fair enough. i should visit spain then one of these days
these any many other tv made shows weren't meant to be binged, they were meant for you to wait until a specific time of night and tune in with every one else, then wait until next week , then wait a year or more before the next season, so this show and many other tv made shows just aren't very good when you binge watch them
Disagree, 2-3 Peep Shows to the dome is comfykino
its a show to watch when it comes up on tv not to binge watch, ya fkin moron.
I haven't been binging it and don't know why everyone keeps bringing this up. The last show I binged was Babylon 5
Internal Monologue: Just 10 more minutes, 10 minutes is all I need then I'll be back to posting on Cinemaphile. Heh a quick visit to /gif/ never hurt anyone, and the (You)s here are so easy. A BBC here, a troony there and ah yes a cumshot thread that should get the (You)s rolling in. Now a quick powerwank and I'll get back to harvesting JLB approved (You)s, but which thread? Oh chubby amateurs, the anxious self-hating man's crumpet. Now if I can just-
>Corrigan!?
Johnson?!
>Is that...normal posting Mark?
*closes /gif/ tabs*
Absolutely Alan, I was just reading some posts on /b/ haha you know what they say Cinemaphile is blue /b/!
>I think not Corrigan, that was far too many pornographic thumbnails even for /b/. You were on /gif/ again.
Alan no, it's not like that.
>How many times do I have to tell you Mark, we run a clean shop here. Blue (You)s only, there's no margin on pink (You)s.
Alan, I can't-
>Can't stop? I understand Corrrigan, you're a coomer aren't you? It's ok we've all been there.
Internal Monologue: A coomer?! Surely he can't think this poorly of me.
Alan I'm not a coomer, it was just one (1) wank.
>It's never just one (1) wank Corrigan. One (1) wank turns into one (1) wank a day which quickly becomes one (1) wank an hour. Come with me we're going to Cinemaphile you need to learn about nofap and semen retention.
Internal Monologue: Oh no, not Cinemaphile. I'll admit their zinc based load supplement stack did improve my life but they're just so gay it's hard to take them seriously on anything else. Not that I'm a homophobe, but their obsession with pictures of shirtless men is just not my cup of tea and I've only recently recovered from the bullying after they tricked me into posting my physique.
>IM NOT SICK BUT IM NOT WELL
>Cinemaphile is blue /b/!
Jaz, slowly: Mark, Cinemaphile is the blue /misc/.
>Corrigan, it's up. Did you see Amazon released the Lord of the Rings trailer? Black dwarves Mark, with a queen to boot.
R-right Alan, so...yes massa and dey hea posts?
>That's right Mark, and you saw that swarthy hand touch Galadriel's hair right?
Faenor BTFO?
>Precisely. I want you to get on Fiverr and engage those Indian bread bakers, there's bound to be extra jannies around right now and they'll be deleting our threads faster than we can make them.
The Indians are refusing to work with you since you started posting Good Morning Sir threads, remember?
>Phillipinos then, we can afford them for this. We've got until September to milk this trailer for (You)s Corrigan, you've still got the stomach for this right?
Internal monologue: The rangeban on my VPN expired yesterday, maybe I'll stick to phoneposting for now I don't want to waste a VPN ban on something that isn't porn do I?
Of course Alan.
>IM NOT SICK BUT IM NOT WELL
>Mark get in, the janny found my sneed posts. I need you to post dicky in the euphoria thread to distract him while I post two separate walled and mogged threads. Those should get us some (You)s but are ultimately just a distraction for janny so I can post a picture of a pornstar and imply that she's an actress. Imagine the (You)s Corrigan.
Internal Monologue: Oh god why does he always give me the euphoria threads, those gay zoomers are starting to convince me that "she" is hot.
Right away Alan.
>By the way, I really liked Jeff's proposal to merge Cinemaphile and /gif/ into a kind of mega board and I've asked him to email it through to asiatic moot this afternoon.
Internal Monologue: WHAT?! JEFF! Oh no...if the /gif/ posters are allowed on here it'll be wall to wall troony porn threads, I'm barely keeping it together as is. Any time I see a picture of a woman I zoom in and check for an adams apple. Maybe it'll just be easier to give in and enjoy it...ha chance would be a fine thing. No, for me, it's the Nigella Lawson mommy threads. Must find a way to stop Jeff before he finds a way to smuggle sissy hypno onto my board.
>IM NOT SICK BUT IM NOT WELL
>Magicians
>Fresh Meat
>Back
The writers really struck gold with the Peep Show gimmick, didn't they? It's like they're constantly nudging me saying "haha see, we're all really cynical, right?" when no, not really.
>Magicians
?
>Fresh Meat
comfy
>Back
also pretty good
You're not meant to marathon this show anon.
You're meant to watch an episode once a week after your wagie session and laugh at how you're better than them.
If you identify with the characters at all, or feel any second-hand embarrassment, you are not fit for this world
>>IM NOT SICK BUT IM NOT WELL
and yet tons of shows older than peep show can be binged just fine
>you are not fit for this world
I always knew thi, can't be worse than mark
>PARANOIA PARANOIA
>And that's why I've asked asiatic moot to range ban all IPs from non-white countries from the site, and obviously that would include mediterraneans, you understand Mark?
Internal Monologue: I really am sick of him /misc/ posting on my nice comfy blue board, but then again he's the only real friend I have on this damn site. Still better company than the trannies and the coomers.
Y-yes I suppose it is better this way Daryl.
Internal Monologue: Don't set him off whatever you do Mark. Don't ask open ended questions, don't mention the war and definitely do not mention israelites.
>Hey, what are you up to later on? Fancy swinging by the paki shop for some vindaloo and we can grab a few jars of lager, my shout mate! I've got a favour to ask you too.
Internal Monologue: Oh god no.
>See I got banned from Twitter again and I've used all my burner phones on accounts already but I urgently need to tweet something. Can I use your phone number to setup an account mate?
Can't you just buy a burner from Mr. Patel?
>He's barred me from his shop for yelling REDEEMED while he was scanning my lotto tickets. Please mate, it's fairly urgent.
What could be urgent about a tweet Daryl?
>Abigail Shapiro is pregnant Mark and I need to tell her brother I want to frick her and suckle on her engorged, khazar milkers.
Internal Monologue: Oh here we go, not again.
You're not going to post anything antisimetic are you Daryl? The police actually came to my flat after I gave you my wifi password.
>Course not mate, just a bit of banter for old mate Ben. Or as I like to call him Binyamin which is the israelite version of Benjamin, they like to do that you know adopt an Anglicised name to conceal their j*wish ancestry. It's a form of crypsis mate, we call them crypto j*ws.
Internal Monologue: I don't understand this fixation he has on Abigail Shapiro, I thought he hated israelites. How on earth did we go from talking about Stargate to this? I just wanted to do some comfy Daniel Jackson posting.
>IM NOT SICK BUT IM NOT WELL
So does this qualify as a sex scene? He did end up creaming himself.
I liked Dobby before they turned her into a slob and pretended she was always a slob.
>People like the Peep Show episodes post-Dobby
I don't know what the masses like - but I feel like her introduction (and the characters who came with her) brought down the show hard.
Big Suze is still my poshfu.
I feel like they could never settle on exactly who Dobby was. Sophie's transformation feels natural; her life crashing with Mark's, her more selfish, negative traits becoming more readily apparent as his surface. Dobby seemed to be a slightly different person towards the back half; in season 5 and 6, she was genuinely a bit of a weirdo, which made her more compelling. In season 7, it gets more unstable, and by season 8 she's a generic hipster.
I think when jlb closed down and mark started to date dobby is where 'something' changes for me
Personally, for some reason I hated season one but really liked season two.
i gave up getting laid like 20 years ago. this show sucks.
In the true detective threads, I suggested that season 5 of TD star Mitchell and Webb as their peep show characters playing Rus and Marty. Frick it, it doesn't matter anymore
when jeremy went gay is when the show started its decline
So the first episode?
I mean fully gay, wasn't it quite late in the show?
you just don't get the show
give up now
just started season 5 and it's hilarious, moron
kino show
I hope that fricking yank burns. the one that jez cheated on FRICK HER
TOTAL YANK DEATH
so are we all brits or are them some others here?
When you're single in your 30's it's quite accurate.
>Jez kills, cooks and eats a dog
>enjoying this Jump The Shark episode
You disgust me.
>every episode is just some scheme related to sex and relationships
that's life for normies
Realistically the show should've ended after Mark and Sophie's wedding. There were still plenty of good episodes after that but episode seemed like the most fitting resolution for the characters.