peep show season 2 episode 5!
Added 2025-07-22 00:53:38 +0000 UTCI HATE MARK.
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Would love if you switched it up to something different like IT Crowd/Chewin The Fat/Skins or did polls for movie reactions. In my opinion Peep Show ain’t worth doing for 54 episodes consecutively 🙂
Declan Gates
2025-07-26 09:42:37 +0000 UTCI hope so!
Lalo Salamanca
2025-07-25 10:57:37 +0000 UTCThey're supposed to be annoying.theyre the opposite of eachother,but they still make nothing but bad decisions.and that's what keeps it interesting.
Matthew Roberts
2025-07-24 18:45:42 +0000 UTCAny inbetweeners this week?
sam olliffe
2025-07-22 19:38:30 +0000 UTCAs much as I love David Mitchell and Robert Webb, I’ve never been able to get into this show. Their characters just annoy the crap outta me! 😆
MarkCity10
2025-07-22 18:16:03 +0000 UTC...but this wasn't a very good episode. Season 4 is where it all happens.
Alan
2025-07-22 11:19:29 +0000 UTCit doesn't play out any of the ways you expect it :) British humour is often about losers, and the jokes are very subtle. Quite different to US humor.
Alan
2025-07-22 11:09:16 +0000 UTCKlaire, Mark is just one in a long line of men in British sitcoms who is portrayed as the stereotypical male loser, dating back to the mid 1950s with the late, great Tony Hancock in “Hancock’s Half Hour.” As you’ve seen by now, British sitcoms are completely different to American sitcoms, especially when it comes to how characters are conceived and written. American sitcoms usually have wisecracking characters that are mostly upbeat (whatever life throws at them) who either end up getting the girl or at least come out on top by the end of the episode. That’s because Americans, in general, are positive people, whereas us Brits seem to view life in a much more cynical way, and that pessimism comes out in our sitcom writers as well. I’m sure it’s a hangover from the Victorian age and Jane Austen novels where the male lead is seen as this brooding, sexually repressed male who can’t talk to women. It’s a stereotype that has become fixed in British society. We don’t like to offend. We don’t want to be pushy. We don’t get ideas above our station and we know where we are in the pecking order of life. There are going to be winners and losers in British sitcoms. The winners are usually the side (supporting) characters you hate, and the losers are going to be the lead characters. Some of our best sitcom characters over the decades have been abject failures when it comes to their love life, or just being able to deal with what life throws at them in general. Hancock’s Half Hour (set in 1950s/1960s London) Tony Hancock, always dour and depressed because he can’t find a woman to love him. He’s thwarted in life at every turn and shares a flat with a mate who he knows is better and more confident than he is. Steptoe & Son (set in 1960s/1970s London) Harold Steptoe, sexually frustrated and longing to leave his father who he lives with. Always wants to better himself but is angry he can’t leave because his old father depends on him. Either life or his father stops him at every turn. Dad’s Army (set during World War II in an English seaside town) George Mainwaring, Captaining old men to defend British shores from German invasion. A pompous little man, often put in his place by his Sergeant who is more cultured and refined than he is. That’s just 3 examples, but there’s so many more to choose from!
Andrew Roberts
2025-07-22 10:35:17 +0000 UTCI have a friend who hates Peep Show, reasoning that the male characters are the sort of men she spends her life trying to avoid, and Mark might be the worst offender. I assume she watched this episode with the same look of irritation that you did. Re. Jeff, there was an extra on one of the DVDs where his actor said that he didn't think Jeff was too bad a guy, but Mark brought out the worst in him. Not that he's exactly a great person either, but he's definitely worse through Mark's eyes.
Charlie
2025-07-22 09:28:30 +0000 UTCNot sure if PS was written this way, but the 3 main male characters are the 3 categories of stereotypical dickhead blokes? Mark - the ‘nice guy’. Never gets any and is tragically pathetic, who deals with rejection very badly. Doesn’t get women don’t do nice. Jez - constantly horny and nothing of substance, just like an overgrown teenager. Geoff - the ‘alpha’, all talk and bite, but a completely overbearing, bullying prick with it.
Mick
2025-07-22 02:42:43 +0000 UTCDifferent strokes for different folks. Mark is the best thing about this show IMHO, I think he's one of the funniest characters in TV history. I wouldn't want to hang out with him, but watching him awkwardly stumble through life? I think it's fucking gold!
Jay
2025-07-22 02:26:49 +0000 UTCI have to agree that it isn't an enjoyable episode, Klaire, so thanks for sitting through it, barring the bit where you actually had to walk out in annoyance at Mark 🤣. I'm not sure if it is your hatred of him rubbing off on me, but I found him equally annoying in this episode too. On the other hand, I agree that both Jez and SuperHans are comedic masterpieces and continue to be throughout the series. In fact, Jez manages to take his character to the heights of pathos at times, to the point that I've found myself veering wildly between wanting to laugh and cry. Wait until Mark and SuperHans try to put him off marrying Nancy while they are at a hospital A&E! I'm still pretty sure it hasn't entirely hit its stride either. Rest assured that Mark never, ever gets it together, but maybe he just gets less annoying over time as you realise he deserves your sympathy for being such an irredeemably annoying loser! PS "Das Boot" really is about 4 1/2 hrs long, entirely set in a German U-Boat in WW2 and subtitled, but is utterly riveting. I bought a copy for a friend whose girlfriend is a snooty Indian with a notoriously short attention span, but he said even she stayed up late to watch it and was utterly riveted. I swear there were times during the film where I felt I'd been incapable of breathing for minutes at a time as the crew began to suffocate!
Eddy
2025-07-22 02:10:56 +0000 UTCYour reaction to cringe is adorable. I sincerely apologise that we are putting you through this. But don't stop. ;)
Jára Zimmerman
2025-07-22 01:12:23 +0000 UTC
