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Peep Show Series 5 [2008] | ![Peep Show Series 5 [2008]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Nlz23yeEL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Becky Martin
Actors: David Mitchell, Robert Webb, Rachel Blanchard, Olivia Colman, Matt King
Studio: Channel 4 DVD
Category: DVD
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Rating:  12 reviews
Format: Pal
Language: English (Unknown)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region: 2
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 180 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 6867441018797
ASIN: B000X8WIAO
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: June 16, 2008
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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.
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 "You're Never Alone With A Mobile Phone ..." May 8, 2008
m.bison (Cheshire, UK)
17 out of 22 found this review helpful
Five series in now and, for me, the Peep Show is still the best thing on British television. After 4 seasons, nevermind 5, you might expect a slight dip in quality, as everything you love about the show slowly fades and the brilliant characters become caricatures. Thankfully, this hasn't happened and the latest batch of episodes is as funny as ever.
No other show makes me scream the house down with laughter or has at least 20 memorable quotes per episode, but this isn't what makes The Peep Show so special. You fall in love with the show because you relate so strongly to the plight of these two young men, as they try to make their way through the trials and tribulations of love and life in modern Britain. Mark is reserved, inhibited and uptight, while Jeremy says and does all the things we wished we had the nerve to say and do. The two main characters may be very different, but they both, in turn, reveal all the anxieties and insecurities that plague us when we try to get on in life and/or find someone to settle down with. They drag these neurotic grey areas of life into the light with intelligent, insightful and downright hysterical dialogue and secret narrated thoughts ... and THIS is what makes the show special.
 Stop it and stop it now! June 3, 2008
Moonraker (London)
10 out of 67 found this review helpful
Enjoyed the first four series enormously but this series looks jaded and some of the script seems like it was written by fifteen year old schoolboys. I'm thinking of the sperm clinic and the twenty pound note scene particularly. Not even the remotest bit amusing just a pathetic attempt at shocking. In this series Jeremy just comes across as an annoying idiot with absolutely NO redeeming features whatsoever.
"Oh Yes, She's The One" June 7, 2008
DL Productions UK (Merseyside, UK)
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
David Mitchell and Robert Webb are back for the fifth instalment of Peep Show, an award winning show in first person style filming. With Mark leaving Soph jilted at the alter, and Jez trying desperately to get his ex back, what a treat we had in line for series 5?
This series we see Mark trying to finally divorce Soph, and make a play for a geeky co-worker, known as "Dobbie", who loves first person role playing games and anything IT really, sounds perfect for Mark doesn't it?
Jez is trying hard to get a record deal: but with Superhans being the way he is, and them not actually being that good, means that the future isn't bright for these two, so he has to seriously consider his future.
Soph's still very upset about Mark leaving her, and even has a few flings, including co-workers and people Mark knows.
This isn't a bad series, but it's not as good as the past series to me. The storylines are good - but they keep ending too conveniently for the length of the episode, or sometimes you get the feeling they're unsure about whether series 6 will go ahead, or if they'll get wrong and die hard fans will be annoyed. The series does work well, but at times you wish they'd stick with a storyline, like Dobbie finally going out with Mark, but you do wonder, does he really just want Soph anyway?
The extras on this look good, a behind the scenes with the boys and girls of Peep Show; the Peep Show relationship tree, which maps every relationship there has been in Peep Show from episode 1 of series 1. There's also Soph's POV, which are scenes filmed in her point of view, which will apparently make up series 6, not sure how that works, maybe C4 have given them another series? There's also deleted scenes, which should be a treat in itself.
This DVD is well worth getting if you like Peep Show, as it's very funny, especially Mark's comments and the way he goes about things. I still think this show is great, and that it's one of the best British situational comedies.
The Megatron! June 21, 2008
DangermouseZilla (Doncaster, Yorkshire, UK.)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
All too often a great comedy series starts to turn stale because it ran for one or two series longer than it should have done. The last series of Red Dwarf left a bitter taste in the mouth, whereas Spaced left it at two series and finished on a high.
Peep Show has gone on for perhaps two series more than most would have expected, but more surprisingly, it's still better than most of the other stuff on telly.
From the very first episode you know that this hasn't lost any of the magic. This series maintains the high quality of writing we've come to expect from Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain. There are points on this DVD release where I've had to rewind back a few moments to re-experience some lines which had me in stitches. It's not very often that I laugh out loud at the screen and have to rewatch bits, but because the characters are so familiar, and the delivery is perfect, you really appreciate the genius behind the show.
As with the previous series, the joke is very much on Mark. He tends to finish up more down-trodden with each episode. His life seems to become more tragic as he is mocked, exploited, and left to philosophise on where he is headed. Mark is very much the star of series 5 with Jeremy making less of an appearance than usual. And this seems fair considering that Mark has spent the 4 series before this chasing Sophie, only to jilt her at (or rather, just after) the alter before this series began.
There's an added 'will they, won't they' thing going on with the only serious story arc of the series - female office geek Dobby, and with any other SitCom you'd be guaranteed a predictably happy ending. But with Peep Show you never know what's going to happen. It's the realism in the midst of outrageous scenarios which help this stand out. You can't help but have affection, and identify with the characters because they're so real.
You don't finish watching this series thinking that it looks tired. You watch the credits on the last episode roll and realise that you feel more endeared to the characters than ever before, it leaves you wanting more.
 a little drop in form July 7, 2008
sean paul mccann (ireland)
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
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.
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