Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #211 in DVD
• Released on: 2009-11-02
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 150 minutes

DVD Description
Peep Show features Mark (David Mitchell) and Jeremy (Robert Webb), two flat-mates living in south London. Mark is a credit manager and the more financially successful of the two, often pessimistic about life and anything to do with Jeremy’s next big ‘idea’. Jeremy rents Mark's spare room and usually has a much more optimistic and energetic outlook on the world than Mark. His self-proclaimed talent as a musician is yet to be recognised, and he is seen as a lazy waster with dodgy friends and not as popular or attractive as he would like to think himself.

In series 6 Mark and Jeremy are still sharing a flat in post-credit crunch Croydon while there is a whiff of desperation surrounding them. Having discovered that Sophie (Olivia Colman) is pregnant they have to face up to the possibility that either one of them might be a father. How will this effect Mark’s pursuit of Dobby (Isy Suttie)? And will it help or hinder Jeremy as he falls for his dream woman, dope-dealing-musician-activist Elena (Vera Filatova)?

Extras on the DVD include an exclusive behind the scenes glimpses from those involved in Peep Show and cast interviews. The must see for any fans of the series, an animation feature on ‘how Peep show is made’ and deleted scenes from series 6.

Customer Reviews

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Series 5 saw a bit of a dip in quality in my view. I thought that maybe the format was tired or perhaps the apparent conclusion of the Mark and Sophie relationship signalled the end. Thankfully, series 6 has blown the cobwebs to smithereens in three ways:

Firstly, they've remembered what brought series 2 and 3 alive - new principal characters, in particular Elena, the friendly neighbourhood drug dealing bisexual Russian brings a whole new dynamic to the show, bewitching both Jeremy and the viewer.

Secondly, whilst the Mark-Jez relationship remains firmly stuck in first-day-at-infant school gear, many of the individual characters are allowed to break free of previous conventions and rules: With JLB blowing up, Mark flirts with what he might be, instead of railing against what he has become; Johnson's manic drive finally spills over into something a little darker, and even Jez plays against type by occasionally caring for others' feelings after sweetly falling in love.

Finally, the jokes are relentless. Sight gags, set-up and pay-off gags, embarrassment and recognition stuff - this we kind of take for granted. But the use of language - and in particular the A level command of swearing - is just on a different level here to previous offerings.

The series sparkles with the sense of writers and performers really enjoying themselves. I love that the main supporting characters (Sophie, Dobbie, Big Suze, Superhans, Johnson) appear only intermittently - and only then where a major plot development justifies their involvement - series 5 seemed overburdened by a need to update us on Sophie's decline for instance. In summary, a fantastic series, some great performances and still the most true-to-life realisation of the horrible awkwardness of what it's like to have to pretend to be a grown-up.

These guys are great!
We are lucky to have David Mitchell and Robert Webb. They are the outstanding talent of British comedy and TV.
The latest series of Peep Show is fantastic: more relevant and hilarious than ever!(The Alan Johnson character has developed into an even more crazed Alpha male...great performance by Paterson Joseph; and Elena is great character -a capricious, sexy Russian who keeps Jez on his toes).
On a separate note, Robert Webb's recent dissertation on modern poetry on BBC2 was superb.
Hopefully we'll see more intelligent, perceptive, sensitive and very funny people like Mitchell and Webb on our TV screens, but in the meantime let's appreciate these two shining lights.
Keep up the great work guys!
JP :)

RETURN TO FORM!
The first series of Peep Show was so densely written, so full of original, hilarious detail that it seemed nearly impossible to continue in such top form. And, in fact, the intervening series, while engaging and funny, became more traditional, more predictable, more situation-y and joke-y. But what a recovery with Series 6! The pace is fast again, the ideas connect at odd angles, the writing is dense, the characters are as unaware and self-destructive as they have ever been. And the writing is flat out dazzling -- no dead babies here -- hitting a rapid stride that sets the vulgar right next to the subtle in an unrelentingly funny gait. We just watched all the episodes straight through and will begin afresh tonight. Who says a comedy is only good for two series?