Peep Show: season six, episode three

Jez under the thumb, Mark as tour guide, and the return of Dobby. Is number six the best Peep Show series yet?

Peep Show Episode 6.3 Review

I think it's safe to say series 6 is already better than last year, and is close to eclipsing the excellent third series if it maintains this quality.

Episode three of this sixth series of the black comedy starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb shows why this is still the funniest British sitcom on TV at the moment. Self-serving Jeremy (Webb) realises that he's in love with Elena (Vera Filatova) and decides to be less selfish to win her affection.

Jez is in love with his beautiful neighbour Elena - and an in-love Jez is a totally gorgeous, optimistic thing. "I don't want to tempt fate," he tells Mark contentedly. "But I think everything's going to be totally great for ever." That line demonstrates just one of the long list of things that's so brilliant about Peep Show. This is a comedy where every word, every comma, every tiny curl of the lip has been precision-tooled to perfection and yet it all looks so effortless.

For Mark, his dream job comes perilously close to actually becoming a reality as Dobby offers him the chance to become a walking history guide.

In other words, everything's about to be totally great for ever for Mark, too! Or not..

Jeremy is in love - so in love that he makes a special trip to Hastings to buy his girlfriend a loaf of her favourite spelt-flour bread. As bakery-based romantic gestures go, you have to admit, it takes some beating. Meanwhile, Mark's devotion to Dobby, the "anxious, self-hating man's crumpet", as he ungallantly describes her, only increases when the full horror of his impending parenthood with Sophie gradually dawns on him. But there is a little light in the darkness, as Mark decides to try for a job leading tourists on guided walks detailing the "mercantile history of the East End... no frills, no wigs, no spin, just telling it like it was." There are so many moments to treasure, most of them unprintable. But if you like your comedy literate, filthy, black and despairing then nothing but Peep Show will do. It's just brilliant.

Peep Show Episode 6.2 Review

Another terrific episode, taking its cue from the great tradition of British farce. For the majority of this half-hour, events were contained within Mark and Jez's tenement block, as the pair grappled with a malfunctioning new boiler and a terrible lie...

Peep Show: Series six, episode two

Mark and Jeremy never keep the girl, but the fact that they get any girl in the first place feels like something of a stretch.

Peep Show series 6 episode 2 review

Another solid episode this, if not a barnstorming one, but I sense some belters to come.

Peep Show! It just gets better and better with every series, doesn't it? This one is fabulous, the filthiest and the funniest thing on telly at the moment by a mile. I'm already worrying about when it finishes: a Friday night without half an hour inside Mark's and Jeremy's sordid minds. Best line in this one goes to Mark: "Why do you insist on seeing the anus as some sort of human USB port, waiting to have all kinds of hardware plugged into it?"

Into its sixth series, you feel that Peep Show could and should be with us for decades yet, like Last of the Summer Wine, only funny. This week, Mark trains his ever-desperate sights on the ever-wonderful Dobby (Isy Suttie) while Jeremy finds love with the entirely unsuitable Elena, a Russian lover of music and poetry. Sophie, however, appears when it's least convenient and spills the beans about her pregnancy. Long live the Croydon dystopia.