Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #209 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-06-16
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 180 minutes

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The multi award-winning and critically acclaimed comedy returns to DVD for a fifth series. Peep Show continues to delve into the innermost thoughts of Mark (David Mitchell) - the conventional one seething with inner rages and desires - and Jeremy (Robert Webb) - the loose cannon full of expressed rages and desires - but seething with even more rage on the inside.

Mark and Jeremy are entering their 30s with failed marriages behind them, few prospects, and a sense of impending crisis. Time is running out for them to sort out their lives. Jeremy’s mother appears on the scene and it soon becomes clear why he’s ended up as he is. Mark goes speed dating, and discovers money can buy you love. Jeremy and Superhans (Matt King) play at a Christian Rock Festival; the flat suffers multiple burglaries and the boys endure their worst ever night out – at the theatre.

Extras:
BEHIND THE SCENES with Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong guiding you through the production process, from how they get ideas for the series, read throughs and rehearsals with cast, to shooting on set and on location to the final product!

PEEP SHOW RELATIONSHIP TREE – your guide to whose slept with whom throughout all the Peep Show series’… this is a trip through Mark and Jeremy’s love lives throughout series 1-5, with clips and graphics to explain the various connections!

DELETED SCENES

SOPHIE’S POV – existing scenes from episode 6 written by Sam and Jesse from Sophie’s point of view.

Synopsis
The fifth series of the gloriously un-PC comedy PEEP SHOW finds Mark and Jeremy returning from Mark's honeymoon in Mauritius and into the aftermath of his wedding day 'jilting'. As Mark is thrown reluctantly back into the dating scene--with predictably cringe-worthy results--Jeremy's lack of cash sees him turning back to his mother. The show's refreshing lack of 'lessons being learnt' and characters 'growing up and moving on' is present as ever, with Sophie, Jeff, Big Suze and Johnson all returning to complicate matters further.
What makes PEEP SHOW stand out from the comedy pack is its finely honed script and strong lead performances by David Mitchell and Robert Webb. The fact that viewers are able to hear the innermost thoughts of Mark and Jeremy as they encounter various problems makes their characters all the more vulnerable, sympathetic and often just plain pathetic. The result is a well-observed comedy for anyone who spends life at the mercy of their own hesitant thoughts.

Customer Reviews

a little drop in form
Series five of peep show continues on from where series four left off and builds the story nicely but at the same time there is a wee drop in form here that means the show loses its consistency for perhaps the very first time.
The series starts well but falls a little with a puerile feel to it at times that beggars the belief that is a brilliantly written show,some of this feels wrong,the episode with the australian lodger being average to say the least,the laughs are still here and there but not everywhere,and that again is a new development.
The story arc here is good though and of the six episodes i would state that 4 are still gold with two maybe drowning in childish antics that arent worthy of these two great characters,still better than most of whats around these days,3.5 stars.

still goin strong
5 star quality comedy yet again. The only small complaint about this series is that there ain't enough Johnston (bar episode 6). Long term fans won't feel let down. Buy it now u fools!

A step down.
In an interview on the special features of That Mitchell And Webb Look Season One, Robert Webb said that he didn't want to use the Gervais tactic of make two great seasons and then end a show. Thank goodness he didn't, because while season 3 of Peep Show was slightly below par, season 4 might just be the show's funniest season. However, perhaps that's where they should've left it.

Season 5 of Peep Show, the first-person perspective program which gives voice to all the darkest and filthiest thoughts we daren't discuss, is not up to the previous four series' standards. In previous seasons, while Jez and Mark made terrible decisions, the viewer felt that it was a terrible decision they would have made. In season 5, things seem to get very, well, sitcom-y. Often, the correct way forward is so blindingly obvious that even someone was perverse as Mark, the ultimate loser, should be able to see it. And when they make the wrong decision, rather than enjoying the downfall, there is a depressing inevitability to the proceedings that means at the midway point of numerous episodes you end up thinking 'well, how can they screw this up?'

However, while Peep Show is no longer up to its own lofty standards, it is still one of the funniest shows on TV. The first episode is worth the asking price alone for its array of quality lines and situations ("We're actually having a fight! This has been brewing for years, hasn't it?"), and scattered through the other episodes are some brilliant moments.

Also, in stark contrast to the cliched nature of the mid-season episodes, the closing episode (and more specifically, the way in which Mark and Jez deal with it) is vintage Peep Show and redeems any wrongdoing from earlier on. Well worth a buy, but only if you're already a fan.