Can you believe it's exactly twenty years to the day when the cult classic British sitcom Peep Show (2003 - 2015) first aired on British TV? To the unintitated, the series focused on the lives of two former university friends sharing a flat in South London. The pair: Mark Corrigan (David Mitchell) and Jeremy "Jez" Usborne (Robert Webb) would often provide access to their intimate thoughts and opinions via offscreen internal monologues and POV shots from their eyes to the audience. This would in turn amplify all the awkward and cringeworthy scenarios in the lives of its two losers. This pathetic odd couple, nicknamed the El Dude brothers, would also share their true contempt with each other on a regular basis.
It wasn't enough that Peep Show would contain two iconic morons like Mark and Jez, it also boasted a veritable rogues' gallery of halfwits, nutjobs and other losers. Legendary supporting characters would include: Super Hans (Matt King) - Jez's best drug addicted mate and fellow band member; and Alan Johnson (Paterson Joseph) - the Gordon Gekko style senior loan manager at Mark's place of employment, JLB Credit. Both of whom deserving enough to have their own spin-off shows, in my humble opinion.
Ten Personal Highlights from Peep Show:
"There Ain't No Party Like a Super Hans Party!"
"The Last Beamer Out of Saigon"
"People like Cold Play and voted for the Nazis!"
Ballet Shoes, Squarepusher CD & Whiz
Not sure which I find worse at this point in time: the current time on the Doomsday Clock, or the continued threat of a U.S remake of Peep Show being in the works. You can change the original theme to an American one, but Peep Show will always irrevocably be a British comedy and thus much of its core humour and its many nuances would be lost in translation; just like that horrible version of The Inbetweeners (2008 - 2010). Is nothing sacred?
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