Peep Show: Series 6

The return of Peep Show is always something to be championed, but it now comes with a tentative fear attached that the quality will continue to peak as it did in the heyday of the early series.

Any show with six series under its belt will inevitably suffer a dip and Peep Show finally succumbed with the crushing disappointment of the recent fifth installment, jumping the proverbial shark with the Niles and Daphne type conclusion to the Mark and Sophie relationship.

Proverbial man-children Mark (David Mitchell) and Jeremy (Robert Webb) are left without jobs as JLB Credit self-implodes leaving Mark without his cherished managerial position and Jez having just joined the "farmyard phone pigs" finds himself unemployed on his first day. Reduced to working for Super-Hans and managing to insult his old boss in a typically toe-curling way, Mark is still caught between kow-towing to authority and attempting to ingratiate himself to his peers whilst Jeremy is attempting to become more than just friends with new neighbour (and part-time drug dealer) Elena. Meanwhile, the paternity of Sophie's baby is still to be determined.

The supporting characters are limited to more muted roles this series and the writing is still strong (though the fact that the series only has 'additional material' from Mitchell and Webb often comes as a surprise since the lines spill out of the protagonists mouths so naturally). The performances of the duo still excel in their woefully downtrodden loser personas, though the rewatch value is slightly less here than in previous years.



Extras: Behind the Scenes, Cast Interviews, How Peep Show is Made, Deleted Scenes.

Released on DVD on 2nd November 2009 by 4DVD.

Written by Simon Cole.