From Channel 4's Series 3 intro (http://www.channel4...._show/show.html)
Meet Mark and Jeremy. Mark's the sensible one, a professional brogue-wearer with a slightly disconcerting interest in World War Two. Jeremy is the loose cannon, a lazy waster with dodgy friends who dreams of becoming a musician but can never get his act together (or up in the morning).
As ever, their deepest, darkest thoughts and feelings are revealed as they try in vain to find their place in the modern world and to find love and fulfilment. After two years, Mark finally gets together with his beloved Sophie but is distraught when she's relocated to Bristol. He tries everything to maintain their relationship, from mild stalking to a botched session of phone sex.
Meanwhile, Jeremy tries to get over his disastrous marriage to American beauty Nancy by embarking on a series totally misjudged relationships. Along the way he falls for a troublesome defendant while he's on jury duty, and - horror of horrors - Mark's younger sister.
Also in this series, Mark and Jeremy are forced to deal with intimidating plumbers, insane friends, and must face up to scary teenage muggers and disappointing threesomes
From the BBC guide to comedy
Jeremy (Jez) and Mark share a flat in a high-rise block, Apollo House. Jeremy thinks himself something of a rebel and is determined to make it big on the music scene, like his pal Super Hans seems to have done. The chances are, however, that it's not going to happen. Mark is an office worker hopelessly pursuing his colleague Sophie, a sensible, down-to-earth woman who just might, under the right circumstances, agree to date him. Then he blows it by trying too hard and by being overbearing. Also on the scene is the boys' next-door neighbour Toni, a straight-talking girl whom they both fancy, on and off. On the surface, Jeremy and Mark are quite horrible people; underneath they're even worse. We know this because the viewer is privy to their inner monologues, hearing the secret thoughts that often contradict their spoken statements, thoughts that are littered with sexual desperation, bitterness, bile and obscene fantasies.
This, at least, was the first series, and things were little improved in the second, when Mark finally succeeds in wooing Sophie only to stuff it up when she discovers he has hacked into her emails, and Jeremy also messes up, finally getting to sleep with Toni (now his boss at a media sales agency) but falling hopelessly in love with Nancy, a gorgeous American. Nancy weds Jeremy (for visa reasons) but this marriage of convenience only brings Jeremy deeper frustration.
Quirky, clever and extremely dark, Peep Show was a true original and pushed the theatre-of-embarrassment envelope further than ever. Aside from the 'inner monologue' device, another innovation was to force the viewer to look exclusively through a character's eyes: every shot was from one or other of the characters' POV, sometimes in extreme close-up, which gave the show a curious intimacy and added a level of intensity to the already in-your-face scenes of anger and madness. (Some of these scenes were captured via a small camera strapped on the actor's head, which literally did record their POV.) The two lead actors were game in portraying such loathsome yet undeniably funny characters, and the rest of the cast succeeded in capturing the unique flavour of the piece. Not for the faint-hearted but spicy fun for those with the stomach for it.
Peep Show quickly attracted a buzz, and by the start of the second series had won the Golden Rose of Lucerne and been nominated for a Bafta award.
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The Bluth's couldn't be saved, let's not let a similar thing happen here.
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