Peep Show. Image shows from L to R: Mark Corrigan (David Mitchell), Jeremy Usbourne (Robert Webb). Copyright: Objective Productions
Peep Show

Peep Show

  • TV sitcom
  • Channel 4
  • 2003 - 2015
  • 54 episodes (9 series)

Sitcom starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb as a pair of socially dysfunctional flatmates with little else in common. Also features Olivia Colman, Matt King, Paterson Joseph, Neil Fitzmaurice, Elizabeth Marmur and more.

  • JustWatch Streaming rank this week: 254

Press clippings Page 32

Last in the simply superb sixth series. The nuptials of Elena and Gail draw close, but Jeremy still holds out hope. Meanwhile Mark, fearing Jeff will usurp him, takes driving lessons so he can ferry his gestating former wife to hospital at the crucial hour. With series seven currently under construction, it's comforting to know it isn't the last we'll see of these most excruciating antiheroes. Performances, writing, drum-tight plotting: it's all gone up a notch this year. In the words of Partridge, "Come back Peep Show and play another song."

The Guardian, 23rd October 2009

It's sadly the last in the series of the sharp-witted sitcom and Mark (David Mitchell) is worried that Jeff (Neil Fitzmaurice) is becoming a potential rival father to his unborn child. So he decides to learn to drive in order that he can take Sophie (Olivia Colman) to the hospital when the baby arrives.

The Telegraph, 23rd October 2009

The finale of this latest series ends on a cliffhanger but not before boiling point is reached when Mark's lies about passing his driving test bite him on the backside. With an unwanted baby and an unresolvable love triangle testing the patience of our anti-heroes, this has probably been the bleakest series yet (tonight Mark seriously considers a one-way ticket to Argentina and a face transplant for the sake of his sanity). Nonetheless, it's also been an absolute hoot.

Sharon Lougher, Metro, 23rd October 2009

When you're a Peep Show lover, it can be baffling that more people don't fall down and worship one of the current 24-carat gems of British sitcom. More than a million viewers return to it each week, but in telly terms that makes it a cult rather than a roaring hit. You wouldn't be surprised if half those regulars spent their days proselytising, trying to win converts to the cult, one viewer at a time, but I've a feeling it's no use: Peep Show is destined to remain an underappreciated, filthy, sharp-witted, semi-hidden gem. Tonight's final episode (of what's been a belting series) starts in low gear, but ends up as fabulously farcical as ever. Mark is alarmed enough about becoming a father, without the dreaded Jeff trying to edge him out and mum Sophie threatening to call the child Tarquin Oliver Nimrod, a name that sounds, as Mark moans, like "the member of a decaying European dynasty". To earn naming rights, he agrees to learn to drive so he can take Sophie to the hospital on the big day. It's a process that goes almost as badly as Jez's attempt to put the kibosh on Elena's wedding. In other words, not well.

David Butcher, Radio Times, 23rd October 2009

The current crop of Friday night comedies really define the channels they're on. And Peep Show is quintessential Channel 4 - original, daring, current and appreciated only by a tiny minority.

Another series has absolutely flown by and the final episode brings Jez and Mark to yet another crossroads in their perpetually disappointing lives. Sophie is about to give birth to Mark's baby (Tarquin? Geoffrey?) and Elena, the current love of Jez's life, is about to marry her girlfriend, Gail. While Super Hans makes another brief, but brilliant appearance, Mark is persuaded to take driving lessons so that he can drive Sophie to hospital when the time comes, and Jez finds himself fighting off murderous impulses to kill Gail.

In years to come, Peep Show will be seen as the pinnacle of comedy it obviously is. In the meantime, there's series seven to look forward to.

Jane Simon, The Mirror, 23rd October 2009

Peep Show series 6 episode 6 review

If they're handing out awards for drunk acting anywhere, somebody please put Robert Webb forward. He single-handedly provided this episode, and, indeed, this or possibly any other Peep Show series, with five of the funniest minutes I have ever witnessed in British comedy.

Mark Oakley, Den Of Geek, 23rd October 2009

Peep Show series 6 episode 5 review

Is this the strongest series of Peep Show ever? It's certainly the most self-assured.

Mark Oakley, Den Of Geek, 19th October 2009

Peep Show: season six, episode five

A party brings plenty of internal monologues - and just the right amount of revulsion.

Julia Raeside, The Guardian, 17th October 2009

Peep Show Episode 6.5 Review

Overall, it almost goes without saying that this was a truly marvelous episode, packed full of memorable moments and lines of dialogue - from Mark's iPod suddenly "shuffling" the party music to a dull speech, Jez describing Mark as "a fusty, sweater-wearing no-fly zone with a ten-foot carrot up [his] arse", the throwaway shot of Super Hans making his snake dizzy in a salad mixer, Mark's unspoken quest to discover who blocked his toilet, and Jez agreeing to be Elena's "human mannequin".

Dan Owen, Dan's Media Digest, 17th October 2009

Mark's (David Mitchell) impending fatherhood fast approaches in this sitcom about two hapless flatmates whose horrid luck provides consistent amusement for the rest of us. He and Jeremy (Robert Webb) decide to throw a party, each seeing it as an opportunity for romance. Jeremy tries to make his casual lover Elena (Vera Filatova) jealous. Mark, meanwhile, hopes to finally hook in his long-term object of infatuation, Dobby (Isy Suttie).

The Telegraph, 16th October 2009

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