Peep Show

Origin and Year: United Kingdom, 2003	Director: Jeremy Wooding
Section: British Nostalgia	Runnning time: 6 x 25 min
28.09.2024 at 11.00	Screening place: Television institute Dominikánská 11

Some will tell you Peep Show is one of the best comedies of all time. Others will tell you it is a show about toxic masculinity in a time before it was cool. The creators of this legendary title would then probably tell you that Peep Show is about existentialism, loneliness, and one weird male friendship. The fact is that the heroes of this comedy, broadcast from 2003 to 2015 on Britain’s Channel 4, are two friends and housemates, Mark and Jeremy. Mark works in an office and would like to consider himself an intellectual, while Jeremy does nothing and wants to succeed in the music business. Mark has a crush on his charming colleague Sophie, while Jeremy is in love with Toni, the cool neighbour next door. That they are both a bit desperate, we could probably tell just by watching. But Peep Show is built on “breaking down the fourth wall” – Mark and Jeremy talk directly to us and let us in on their thoughts, so we know their desperation immediately. The longest-running comedy in Channel 4’s history is the result of the collaboration between writers Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong, who you may know as the creator of the popular Succession. Now a timeless classic of British humour.