Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Time to end Peepshow?

I'm a big fan of the TV comedy Peepshow. Having recently watched all of the sixth series, I would say that it is still going strong and whilst not quite as ground-breaking or as excruciating as it used to be, it remains an often audacious and wonderfully awkward series. It is still on a high, and therefore it should stop. Series 6 should be the last series.

Fawlty Towers, Black Books, Spaced and The Office got it right. They stopped whilst they were still on top of their game. As opposed to something like Red Dwarf that went on for far too long. And in the process managed to become neither funny nor interesting. Peepshow could very easily suffer a similar drop in quality - Series 5 certainly wasn't as good as the preceding ones, although Series 6 is more of a return to form - and we'll be left with an unfunny series unsuccessfully trying to ape what went before. There will be lots of demand for another series of Peepshow; yet the producers should leave the fans wanting more.

Besides, the final scene of these season could be the perfect way to sum up the series. What better way to end this show than having the final moments (spoilers ahead) depicting a heavily pregnant Sophie, who is most probably in labour, having to drive herself to hospital because Jeremy is too drunk to drive and Mark isn't capable of doing so, yet is still offering things (tissues and directions) that he simply does not have and cannot do? To me, that is the essence of Peepshow, and they should leave it there.

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At 2:19 pm , Blogger Costello said...

Agreed. Having found the previous season to be quite middling i thought that they'd perhaps jumped the shark a bit and should have ended with Mark and Sophie's catastrophic wedding. That said, this season is not too bad so far.

 

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