Spaced
- TV sitcom
- Channel 4
- 1999 - 2001
- 14 episodes (2 series)
Cult Channel 4 sitcom. Tim and Daisy decide to pose as a professional couple in order to find a decent flat to rent. Stars Simon Pegg, Jessica Hynes, Julia Deakin, Nick Frost, Mark Heap and more.
Streaming rank this week: 351
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Your next box set: Spaced
If you've ever rented a grotty flat, done a rubbish job or watched a lot of 90s telly and films, you'll love Spaced.
Vicky Frost, The Guardian, 30th October 2009Revisiting this flatshare comedy, quirkily written and acted by Simon Pegg and Jessica Hynes, is an unalloyed pleasure. Although it's ten years old (noooooo!), Spaced is still effortlessly cool and funny, with edits and camera tricks that are now used by every Tom, Dick and Harry. This one introduces us to non-couple Tim and Daisy, as well as manically intense artist Brian and dipso landlady Marsha. Pegg and director Edgar Wright went on to make popcorn classics Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, but this was better by miles: honed, joyously inventive and sweet as a nut.
Mark Braxton, Radio Times, 19th October 2009Spaced: Pure comedy gold
Its 10th anniversary is upon us and it's a good time to remember how the sitcom eschewed traditional rules in its quest for laughs.
John Plunkett, The Guardian, 24th September 2009'Spaced' brings the slacker to the small screen
This summer, I came to the realization that working from nine to five, Monday through Friday, is referred to as the "daily grind" for a reason. Even though I was working at an internship that I loved, with people I enjoyed, doing work that I felt was important, I still had a hard time adjusting to a schedule that didn't allow for afternoon naps and FailBlog breaks. I was filled with nostalgia for the time, only a few months earlier, when my days started at 11 a.m. and my afternoons were filled with macaroni and cheese and Comedy Central.
This nostalgia was a contributing factor to my newfound, yet deep and abiding, love for the short-lived British sitcom Spaced. The show was created by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, the geniuses behind Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, two of my favorite movies of all time. Pegg and Jessica Hynes (who played Shaun's female counterpart, Yvonne, in Shaun of the Dead) star as Tim Bisley and Daisy Steiner, two post-adolescent slackers who pretend to be a couple in order to rent a flat whose advertisement proclaims it to be for "professional couples" only.
Alex Israel, The Phoenix, 10th September 2009