Peep Show - Season 8

Bobby42 · 03-12-2012 12:03AM

Not a great episode at all. No real memorable funny moments at all. Kinda going trough the motions really.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 03-12-2012 12:47AM

yeah wasn't terribly impressed with this episode at all

Mr.Nice Guy · 03-12-2012 01:25AM

I didn't like the last series much. I thought the latest episode was okay. Not a lot of laughs. It felt like they put the funniest bits of it in their adverts.

mikom · 03-12-2012 01:33AM

Not great so far this season.
Fresh meat was into it's stride by episode 2.

briany · 03-12-2012 03:12AM

The strokes weren't as broad as last week. It was back to the pure dysfunctionality of Jeremy and Mark and on that level it was still very funny. That's the bread and butter of the series anyway. The velvet spoon, the dick skirt, Mark Crorigan, high powered publisher's meeting at a takeaway van, rent....man, Napoleon and the internet. Lots of funny asides and observations in that episode. I enjoyed it.

jefreywithonef · 03-12-2012 05:07AM

That was poor in all honesty. The first episode provided a good few laughs but this one wasn't very good at all. Mark falling for vanity publishing doesn't seem credible and Jez in bed with the life coach was a poor imitation of that Nancy episode where they tried to break all taboos. A steep fall after a strong opening episode.

That line about Gerard being a "boring Dracula" was great though. As was this line from the first episode: "you couldn't beat me on earth so you're ****ting on me from above, like a dead, jealous pigeon". Great similes. :pac:

adamski8 wrote: »

Just re watched season 7 again. It great, especially the xmas episode! Totally disagree with the poster talking about its faded. Using alan partridge as an example! Thats still going atm and hasnt been funny for a decade

Listen to the audiobook of I Partridge; it equals if not surpasses the brilliance of I'm Alan Partridge s1. That and MMM constitute a fine revival of brand Partridge. And it's all down to two new writers, the Gibbons brothers, coming on board with a fresh palette. Looking forward to the film in August.

I wonder if Bain and Armstrong would welcome another main writer - they do seem to be retreading old ground this season so I think it's needed for future storylines. Simon Blackwell (The Thick Of It, Veep, Four Lions, In The Loop) has written a few episodes in the past, maybe promote him.

seligehgit · 03-12-2012 11:01AM

Have to echo people's sentiments,it was a so so episode but there was some seriously good one liners.

MakeEmLaugh · 03-12-2012 02:25PM

I much preferred this week's episode to last week's. Loved when Jeremy commented on Jeremy "stirring your coffee very quietly without chinking the sides so I can't hear and you don't have to make one for me". Those are the type of gags Peep Show used to excel at.

And, Christ, Jeremy's life coach was a MILF...

Technocentral · 03-12-2012 03:47PM

Unlike the rest here I loved this episode, way better than last weeks, and the whole story of Marks ****ty printed out book was hilarious! Some great lines about paper being short of supply like when your man who was scamming Mark said "Salman Rusdie is pissing blood over at Jonathan Cape".

Skid · 03-12-2012 08:10PM

I thought it was weak. It was very out of character for Mark to be duped by Vanity Publishing (which even Super Hans and Jeremy could see was a scam).

Some good one-liners as always, but nowhere near as good as the first episode.

lertsnim · 03-12-2012 09:05PM

The line about keeping the panties dry was hilarious.

TheStook · 04-12-2012 01:27AM

I think Mark was oblivious purely due to him wanting desperately to have his book published at any cost, to one up Jez and his Life coaching aspirations perhaps.

But yeah, very out of character.

I want more Super Hans

Duggys Housemate · 04-12-2012 01:37AM

Skid wrote: »

I thought it was weak. It was very out of character for Mark to be duped by Vanity Publishing (which even Super Hans and Jeremy could see was a scam).

Some good one-liners as always, but nowhere near as good as the first episode.

Not really, he has intellectual vanity - particularly about history. In general 2 solid episodes. I dont think dobby is adding much so far, though.

briany · 04-12-2012 02:04AM

Duggys Housemate wrote: »

Not really, he has intellectual vanity - particularly about history. In general 2 solid episodes. I dont think dobby is adding much so far, though.

I think a hallmark of the series has been that neither lad is above the odd neurosis-led collapse of common sense and, in that state can't see the wood for the trees. Usually the other half can see this quite clearly and much of the humour comes from them dryly commenting on the other's erratic behaviour throughout the episode as well as the viewer's knowledge that it'll all come collapsing down by the end.

starviewadams · 04-12-2012 02:48AM

Thought this weeks episode was far better then last weeks.I like the way Mark has now become the prick,and Jeremy is the one I feel sorry for.Was the other way round in the early seasons.

Also kind of sick of Dobby at this stage.

Father Damo · 04-12-2012 08:47AM

First episode of this series was an out and out classic. Super Hans on fire, Jez as big of an idiot as he always was.

Second one was god awful! Making Jez the sensible one, WTF? I hope this life coach thing is not for the whole series, he is too stupid to make it believeable and the parts of it in that episode were boring as fcuk.

Still, next week they go on a weekend away with Hans, so it cant not be hilarious

MrJoeSoap · 04-12-2012 09:37AM

Father Damo wrote: »

First episode of this series was an out and out classic. Super Hans on fire, Jez as big of an idiot as he always was.

Second one was god awful! Making Jez the sensible one, WTF? I hope this life coach thing is not for the whole series, he is too stupid to make it believeable and the parts of it in that episode were boring as fcuk.

Still, next week they go on a weekend away with Hans, so it cant not be hilarious

Certainly has all the ingredients of a classic...

Simon, Dobby's ex-boyfriend, invites Mark, Dobby, Jeremy and Superhans to join him and his friends for a paintballing weekend. Mark is convinced that Simon is using the weekend to get back with Dobby, while Jeremy believes he can life coach Neil, Simon's best friend.

pickarooney · 04-12-2012 09:56AM

Very weak episode all round. Jeremy's story had no laughs and it was obvious where Mark's was going. At least we finally know how to spell Jez' last name.

Cienciano · 04-12-2012 10:07AM

Deleted User wrote: »

You mean like when they were hanging out with 2 girls and Jez started eating their dead dog's charred leg on a boat?

One of the best moments in tv history

Morzadec · 04-12-2012 11:30AM

Agree it was average enough, and Mark falling for the scam was a bit unbelievable - but hey it's a sitcom and I'm willing to suspend my disbelief.

There was a few good lines in the episode as there always is even with the slightly more mediocre episodes.

I agree with the poster who said that Peep Show has declined slightly since Series 5 - however they still produce some very funny stuff and I still look forward to every episode and am never disappointed. As I say you'll always get at least a few laughs.

Long may it continue. It hasn't gone the way of the Simpsons yet, even if it's not reaching the very high peaks of the earlier series.

spank_inferno · 04-12-2012 03:21PM

Slightly unbelievable alright.

Mark should be cynical enough to spot the publishing scam despite his overpowering desire to believe.

Jezz bedded that cougary life-coach a bit too easily.
Again too obvious.
Had she been 15 years older and wheel-chair bound it would have been more.. "Typical Jezz".

Still though, bad Peep Show is still better than 90% of sitcoms.

Duggy747 · 04-12-2012 03:32PM

spank_inferno · 04-12-2012 04:19PM

Dobby is a practice girl.

Which should't get her down, she provides a very important role!

jefreywithonef · 04-12-2012 05:33PM

It's a pity she's turning into another Sophie.

Technocentral · 04-12-2012 05:44PM

I'm a member of the Dobby Club! Love her geeky put downs, would be a big loss if she wasn't a central character anymore, great comic timing.

briany · 04-12-2012 05:59PM

Technocentral wrote: »

I'm a member of the Dobby Club! Love her geeky put downs, would be a big loss if she wasn't a central character anymore, great comic timing.

Dobby's probably the most down to earth female mainstay that there's been in Peep Show. She's generally considerate, a bit self deprecating, up for a laugh and is pretty enthusiastic about things. She's not bossy or narcissistic like almost every other female love interest character that has been in Peep Show. She's the most decent character in the whole thing I say.

MakeEmLaugh · 04-12-2012 07:24PM

briany wrote: »

Dobby's probably the most down to earth female mainstay that there's been in Peep Show. She's generally considerate, a bit self deprecating, up for a laugh and is pretty enthusiastic about things. She's not bossy or narcissistic like almost every other female love interest character that has been in Peep Show. She's the most decent character in the whole thing I say.

She also did provide one of the greatest ever Peep Show quotes.

Mark: “Good old alcohol.”
Dobby: “Facilitates the talking of shite!”

Mocha Joe · 04-12-2012 07:27PM

MakeEmLaugh wrote: »

She also did provide one of the greatest ever Peep Show quotes.

Mark: “Good old alcohol.”
Dobby: “Facilitates the talking of shite!”

That wouldn't make my top 50 Peep Show quotes.

She seems to have lost interest in Mark a bit. I don't think they'll be together at the end of the series.

Father Damo · 05-12-2012 09:31AM

briany wrote: »

. She's the most decent character in the whole thing I say.

I am going to be shallow and demand she get booted and they bring back the ridiculous hotness of Nancy or Big Suze. I actually thought they were funnier characters anyway (Nancy being an equally idiotic living in the clouds female version of Jez, Suze being so over the top posh in some of the sh1te she came out with)

Footoo · 05-12-2012 10:16AM

Father Damo wrote: »

I am going to be shallow and demand she get booted and they bring back the ridiculous hotness of Nancy or Big Suze. I actually thought they were funnier characters anyway (Nancy being an equally idiotic living in the clouds female version of Jez, Suze being so over the top posh in some of the sh1te she came out with)

Well the actress that plays her is related to the royal family as far as I know. She has the title of 'lady' and everything, so I'd say she's just being herself tbh

But I agree, Big Suze was great. Her overenthusiasm when they tied up the burglar was one of the funniest non Mark annd Jez monment in Peep Show.

Peep Show - Season 8

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