yoel romero when i need inspiration i think of super Hans giving me advice that usually gets me working again because I don't want to get a crack addiction.
A dull, anticlimactic ending. But an ending that was just perfect for the tone of Peep Show. Going out with a big bang would have been untrue to the nature of the show, and it shouldn't have ended any other way really.
@@earthwormjim1837 I was gonna say...! I think Seinfeld took a big risk with that and managed to lose the entire audience. Taking such a chance was respectable. I think most fans neither like nor understand the finale. At first I did not like it either, but after giving it some thought, I do not think that it was such a bad ending after all. Perhaps, that is what Seinfeld/David and Staff wanted.
I think it's very fitting that the last shot of the show wasn't from either of their point-of-view, rather a shot of both of them sitting together, from the audiences point-of-view, as if we are no longer 'inside' them, so to speak.
If you watch that episode when they get lost on them on the moors there's actual a wide angle shot of them from a distance. I thought it was really cool as it suggests that someone was watching them from afar. Pretty creepy.
There was plenty of character development, it just wasn't necessarily positive or stuck. The majority of ocmedies have development in them and aren't funny.
It was always gonna be them together in the end. Not a couple, but bound together by the fact that no one else can stand them. It's beautiful in a sad depressing sort of way.
This series is showing you a toxic relationship. Mark and Jez are terrible friends and should have ditched each other long ago. This show isn't just a comedy its a warning about the importance of being good to other people.
Yeah, they can’t leave each other they are bound together. Both thinking they deserve better but all their aspirations self sabotaged. Its a classic ‘Odd Couple’ sitcom trope, Steptoe and Son, Bottom, Not going out - two losers stuck with each other in their codependance
@@soldatheeroAs much as I love it I did feel the same sentiment in the finale series. Jez was made to be more and more a shit friend and neither of them have a partner or jobs essentially worse than they started not even tell you what we've enabled a little gold for each other
Fresh Meat? You must be joking, that show was terrible. The only comedies in recorded history that anybody could watch again and again are Curb your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld (seasons 4-9 only), and of course this one.
the show started at a random point in the characters lives and ended at a random point. the main characters didn't change or develop one bit over the whole time and ended up in the same position they started in. the show did not feature any glamour or cheesy heartwarming scenes whatsoever. yet it was one of the most memorable shows ever to air.
I'd argue it didn't end at a random point, watching it back it genuinely feels like an actual ending, obviously they'd live on, but with the whole April story wrapped up as well as Jez and the couple he was kind of dating, and then super Hans leaving? It's about as much an ending as a realistic show could have
@@kieran7675 Yeah, the ending wasn't as random as the beginning (although even the beginning was still the start of Mark and Sophie's relationship). Here Jeremy is alone, 40, with no career and no money. Mark is also alone, jobless, and with relatively little money. Their one friend has left the country. It's an utterly depressing and hilarious ending.
@@kieran7675 The Mark and April/Jez and the couple storylines were still plotlines that only started in that season. It would have felt more like an "ending" if Mark's spiteful cowardice would have seen him completely blow it with Dobby while simulaneously trapping him in a loveless arangement with Sophie, and Jez's thoughtlessness to have left him homeless, with noone left to turn to, and facing the realisation that he was completely fucked and it was all his own fault.
"oh god.. i'm so tired..." Honestly the saddest line in the show, this is not the jeremy that started the show but as far as his accomplishments go - he's exactly the same
People say that "oh it's just like real life, zero character development" I think that mark and jez had plenty of opportunities to develop as people. But mark feared change and jez lacked the guidence. So whilst this show isn't about character development, it teaches the danger of character stagnation. Mark and jez will spiral ever downwards in self loathing and pity. Because they refuse anything else.
I think you are correct. There's a complexity too in the characters trying to pursue other things for their lives but constantly falling short because of their behaviours that don't sit with them naturally.
@key999 no not like real life are all. Peep show isn't a documentary. It's a comedy where no development happens. Well rather they develop negatively purely for comedies sake.
@@maxsync183 for some, but people change whether they want to or not. David Mitchell said he'd make a follow up to this where Mark and Jez are in their 60s doing exactly the same stuff. The comedy there is how absurd that is. How could these 2 men who hate each other still be living together and ruining each others lives decade's later?
@@amber1862 You know what, I've warmed to it over time. So I can't say I agree with what I wrote there. The Super Hans/Jez interactions in it are pretty funny. You can't trust people Jeremy.
I think the ending simply means that it's going to be the same thing for another few years. In a way, it ended the way it started. Two of them in a flat with a love/hate friendship. I'm guessing Super Hans returned sooner or later as well after his failed moped rental idea.
Yeah, that's what I got from it. It is at least uplifting that they can't get any lower, but also most likely not any higher, just in a mediocrity limbo forever.
Mark was probably a covid hoarder and Jeremy lightly flirted with Qanon conspiracies. Both retrained following the great resignation - Mark is now working with a team half his age writing prompts for ChatGPT to generate captions for tiktoks and Jez sells NFTs based on his music. Neither are happy.
I watched this show on netflix from may-june. Man, I was almost certain I wasn't going to find a british sitcom better then inbetweeners, but I then I found these guys.
Barney Os. inbetweener is world class but peep show just had a longer run which allowed the characters to be a bit more fleshed out. Especially the guest stars
If this was written like an American sitcom, that "outrageous, contagious" song would have been randomly discovered in China and become an enormous hit there making Hans and Jeremy rich. He'd have given Mark a load of money so that he could go back to Uni and study Classical history, and the series would have ended at Mark and April's wedding where surprise guest Nancy would have rekindled her relationship with Jez.
As an American, that’s very accurate. Not gonna lie, we’re suckers for a happy ending. In this case, though, this ending was fine. A happily ever after ending would’ve been weird actually
@@sofiaguerrero0969 Americans like the underdog who wins as much as anyone, but yeah, the show would end with a surprisingly positive bang at the last minute.
Yeah I think there needs to be more british cynicism in our sitcoms. We have IASIP but not a ton of others that just let characters be hopelessly awful.
I get this show has a massive cult following but on the whole it didn't make a huge impact and I don't get why. I can't think of a show I've wanted to watch for 9 series. And this one stayed gold the entire time.
i think it's because it's not a traditional drama or american comedy where they always end on a happy note and have a big happy ending to the show where everything is resolved.
That's kind of the point. Nothing really changed throughout the entirety of the show, which is what made it so hilariously sad, and meant it didn't really have a huge impact on many people. There was no big finale, no happy ending, just misery and awkwardness.
I’ve found when telling people they should watch it that the name ‘peep show’ seems to put people off. Never bothered me but something I’ve noticed. Disappointing really, they’re missing out on a great show.
It's a dark, genuinely funny show without an agenda - if C4 ever thought there was an American market for it they would sell the rights and some shit-tier yank production house would start making Peep Show US, just like skins and shameless and whatever else. Or they would just change the name to dumb it down even more. "Low-rise: A British living-space" it can run for 20 seasons and at the end Jez and Suze get married and he makes a #1 selling album or some sappy bullshit like that. Other than that i think @idot got it - it's an incredibly bleak social commentary that doesn't give any answers or solutions and has no message other than "life kinda sucks". What kind of impact did you expect it to make?
@Dinselt Though if you look at Marks hair he's rocking a pretty obvious combover. I think Robert Webb is probably just going bald a bit more gracefully XD
Jeremy’s face when Mark is giving his speech is such a subtly desperate portrait of mortified realisation and existential panic that underneath the comedy it’s actually heartbreaking. He knows he’s hit 40 having achieved nothing, not even the respect of his closest friend, and worst of all that *things will never change*. Peep Show walks the tightrope between hilarity and the true horror of being alive like no other show.
Jesse Armstrong, the head writer of Peep Show, also explores that lack of character development in his recent worldwide smash Succession. He has gone on record saying that fundamentally he believes people rarely change.
It ends as it began, two people so worried about missing out that they miss out on everything, life is leaving them behind while everyone else moves on. To insecure to make any sort of decision or commitment, self sabotaging because the truth is the don’t want to or can’t leave each other.
In the first time in Peep Show history, there is a shot that is not from another human beings point of view. The very last shot is from the TV's point of view, in other words we are the audience watching TV and looking at them through the TV. What an awesome ending 🥳
I'm obsessed with Peep Show. And I always wondered why? Then I realised it gave me the revelation that my life was a comedy not a drama. Pretty relieving stuff.
Damn. What an original and unique way to end a show. Life goes on - deal with it. No typical "happy ever after" or other bullshit. It's great on so many levels.
"Totally meaningless, I'm gonna get rumbled." "That is so sweet. That might be the nicest thing he's ever said." "Ah, we do love each other, really." "I simply must get rid of him." Series ends with Mark burying Jez off-screen after killing him with a pillow on the face.
Is that final shot the only one in the entire show filmed at an angle not from a character? Even 3rd person shots beforehand are implied to be a bystander, but this one is just jarring. Fitting though.
That's what us Brit's do very well I think, poignancy (bitter sweet) to end great comedy sitcom series, going right back to 70's sitcoms. Some great and well loved shows ended this way. Unfortunately there was no youtube, HBO and netflix to share them with our cousins overseas. I have been watching rare gems like this since back then, I am glad our sitcoms are being seen and appreciated more globally now.
The starkest reality: 9 years have passed and they just end right back at square one. All they have to show for it is 9 fewer years left in their life.
Thomas Duffy I think it's the fact that after all these two have been through over the years, absolutely nothing has changed in their lives and if anything things have gotten worse for them. They're still living together in the same flat, neither of them are in a relationship and both of them are unemployed with the only other person they could really call a friend leaving the country. Pretty grim stuff really.
Was flicking through an old magazine from two years ago, saw the final advertisement for the peep show "one last peep" :'( truly one of the greatest shows ever
I miss those two together...Not just Peep Show.... just brilliant writers and performers. Peep Show was a masterpiece and everyone in it gave everything.
I have a feeling that the line “I love how the last line is the same as the first” in the episode with Jeremy’s poem was foreshadowing the fact that Peep Show was going to end in pretty much the same way as it started.
Wasn't keeping track of the eps when I first watched it and actually had a breakdown when I realised there were no more episodes after this... as a result it can never be a satisfying ending, I always associate it with the shell shock of the first time. It's just so sad.
I love that the last shot is the only shot in the entire show that isn't from somebody's perspective, for once its a normal shot that kinda implies the charcters are looking at the viewer for once. kinda unnerving...
Yeah it's a shame I kind of liked their habit of watching Bob Ross but they're doing it only in season 1, they drop that joke in the rest of the serie.
Mark and Jez are in a way polar opposites, because Jez grows as a person because he has to face up to his reality of being a failed artist. He may remain flawed regardless- there is very little genuine character development in Peep Show- but ultimately he has it tougher than Mark as he age, becoming painfully aware of the sheer futility of the diminishing world he painted for himself in his youth. Mark, however, never aspires for greatness, nor desires anything more than to be “accepted as normal” in what he says are the eyes of others, but are actually in his own. And therefore, as his world crumbles because of his own poor, cowardly decisions, he slowly shrivels himself into a nihilistic, paranoid rut; this climaxes in the nadir of him becoming a fantasist- dangerously misled, manipulative, and quite possibly mentally unwell- in the ninth series, as he aggressively pursues April. But despite their extreme differences in series 1, after the pathetically juvenile and naïve Jez has just been dumped by Big Suze and has taken a rent-avoiding refuge in the flat of a serious and well-structured Mark, both Mark and Jez are essentially versions of the same character by Series 9. Mark has rubbed off on Jez by Jez realising his fault and taking his life more seriously, inheriting Mark’s cynicism and desire for a successful career to some extent. Jez has rubbed off on Mark by Mark becoming a sexually desperate, increasingly nihilistic loser, who may still be able to take into account the long term consequences of his foolish actions, but who fundamentally cannot being himself to care anymore. They’re essentially two ends of the same “Siamese” parasitic worm. This article is super cool, please read theoutline.com/post/7344/we-are-trapped-in-an-episode-of-peep-show
I've always said that the ending of this show is worse than any horror film. Imagine your entire life being sat in front of the TV never doing anything with it.
Horror film implies people have to put themselves into a situation. There are millions, if not hundreds or thousands, millions of such Marks or Jez who bascially wasted their whole life and now can only look forward to dying. But as grim as it sounds - at least they have each other.
I had no idea this was the last episode when I watched it, concluding a month long binge of the show. I was so confused when the next episode didn’t autoplay lol
I’m rewatching the series again now. I guess my 6th time. lol. I still find myself cracking up in the middle of night watching it! A lot of people just don’t get the show. I suppose it’s because it’s about 2 losers who never grow or prosper in any way at all. But that’s the beauty of the show. No teary eyed episodes. No sweeping emotional music to tug at your heartstrings. Nope there shall be none of that. Just characters being ground down to the emptiness of their lives. Absolutely brilliant!
Getting around the ending after 3 years of watching the Peep Show hit me. I'm going to try at life even if most people I reach out to feel like cardboard. In the end most of us are lonely and reminiscence on that one time we managed to get together and do something. Just like how Mark kept up with mates who never really liked him or were similar, final scene was with Hans ffs. One day, I'll run into my Hans and love him dearly
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No resolution, no satisfaction, zero personal growth in the entire nine years, just like real life :)
Yeah, it teaches us that you need to do real effort and hard work to keep yourself from still being shit. Most of the is not worth it.
That's a very British approach to comedic narrative, Kyle. And maybe even philosophy.
Basically English always sunny in Philadelphia.
@Andrew Smith I know. I'm English. 😂
Pretty nihilistic.
"Laters" - and there goes the greatest side character in TV history
"Crack!"
"Here you go"
"Cheers"
*Wood falls to the ground*
@@AH-vr1ix such a simple man....
Up there with Trig, Leon and Kramer.
Him and Alan are so frelling good it's kind of hard to understand we got 2 side characters in the top 5 of all tv history from this show.
I wonder how his moped rental business fared.
i used to watch this show so much that i would think in mark's voice. lmao
SAME
Wasn't Marks voice, but I'd narrate my own life the same way. Made life a bit more fun, as if it's all just one long episode.
I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE I just like to make every annoyance in my life become that bitter sense of sarcasm
LOL I have literally done this...funny to see I'm not the only one
yoel romero when i need inspiration i think of super Hans giving me advice that usually gets me working again because I don't want to get a crack addiction.
I like to think that after leaving the flat, Super Hans immediately got in his van and drove straight to Macedonia in one go.
He might even jog there
@@UploaderGuy3000 Barefoot too, they're nature's trainers after all.
Then faked his death hiking in the Balkans but is secretly hiding out in Purely from creditors under an assumed name.
I think he ran...He got his practice by 'accidently' running to Windsor a few seasons back!
you mean Greece
A dull, anticlimactic ending. But an ending that was just perfect for the tone of Peep Show. Going out with a big bang would have been untrue to the nature of the show, and it shouldn't have ended any other way really.
Yes, great point
So true
I thought they were gonna all end up in prison 😂
@@earthwormjim1837 I was gonna say...! I think Seinfeld took a big risk with that and managed to lose the entire audience. Taking such a chance was respectable. I think most fans neither like nor understand the finale. At first I did not like it either, but after giving it some thought, I do not think that it was such a bad ending after all. Perhaps, that is what Seinfeld/David and Staff wanted.
that was the point
I think it's very fitting that the last shot of the show wasn't from either of their point-of-view, rather a shot of both of them sitting together, from the audiences point-of-view, as if we are no longer 'inside' them, so to speak.
+jim betley huh, I didn't notice that. Is that the first time that's happened? o.O
+Hoppimike As far as I'm aware, yeah I think so!
If you watch that episode when they get lost on them on the moors there's actual a wide angle shot of them from a distance. I thought it was really cool as it suggests that someone was watching them from afar. Pretty creepy.
@jim betley - That comment is VERY rainbow rhythms
Ooh that's cool! I'll have to rewatch that!
Absolutely zero character development hahahaha, nothing changes from the first season, very good, love this show
Yeah, it should have felt dissapointing, but it really seems fitting for the show. Incredible how the writers could pulled it off.
pun intended?
Liam Curran well jez becomes gay
That's why the humor feels repetitive
If there is character Development
The humor style will change
There was plenty of character development, it just wasn't necessarily positive or stuck. The majority of ocmedies have development in them and aren't funny.
It was always gonna be them together in the end. Not a couple, but bound together by the fact that no one else can stand them. It's beautiful in a sad depressing sort of way.
Like a couple then
This series is showing you a toxic relationship. Mark and Jez are terrible friends and should have ditched each other long ago. This show isn't just a comedy its a warning about the importance of being good to other people.
@@lmn6440 first 4-5 seasons were fun then it gets more and more depressing and downright annoying. still funny at times but just not as fun
Yeah, they can’t leave each other they are bound together. Both thinking they deserve better but all their aspirations self sabotaged. Its a classic ‘Odd Couple’ sitcom trope, Steptoe and Son, Bottom, Not going out - two losers stuck with each other in their codependance
@@soldatheeroAs much as I love it I did feel the same sentiment in the finale series.
Jez was made to be more and more a shit friend and neither of them have a partner or jobs essentially worse than they started not even tell you what we've enabled a little gold for each other
This is one of the only comedies that stays just as funny when you watch it again and again
+Gabe Thornes I think "Fresh Meat" stands up well too. Same writers, Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain.
Fresh Meat? You must be joking, that show was terrible. The only comedies in recorded history that anybody could watch again and again are Curb your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld (seasons 4-9 only), and of course this one.
+MrBlaoblao amen
Always Sunny is one I can watch over and over as well. I agree with your picks too, MrBlaoblao.
I'm Alan Partridge and Curb Your Enthusiasm both still have me in fits of hysterics every time, even though I've watched both countless times.
the show started at a random point in the characters lives and ended at a random point. the main characters didn't change or develop one bit over the whole time and ended up in the same position they started in. the show did not feature any glamour or cheesy heartwarming scenes whatsoever. yet it was one of the most memorable shows ever to air.
I'd argue it didn't end at a random point, watching it back it genuinely feels like an actual ending, obviously they'd live on, but with the whole April story wrapped up as well as Jez and the couple he was kind of dating, and then super Hans leaving? It's about as much an ending as a realistic show could have
@@kieran7675 Yeah, the ending wasn't as random as the beginning (although even the beginning was still the start of Mark and Sophie's relationship). Here Jeremy is alone, 40, with no career and no money. Mark is also alone, jobless, and with relatively little money. Their one friend has left the country. It's an utterly depressing and hilarious ending.
@@kieran7675 The Mark and April/Jez and the couple storylines were still plotlines that only started in that season.
It would have felt more like an "ending" if Mark's spiteful cowardice would have seen him completely blow it with Dobby while simulaneously trapping him in a loveless arangement with Sophie, and Jez's thoughtlessness to have left him homeless, with noone left to turn to, and facing the realisation that he was completely fucked and it was all his own fault.
@@kieran7675 yup, they both ended up alone with all they're bridges burnt but each others.
"oh god.. i'm so tired..."
Honestly the saddest line in the show, this is not the jeremy that started the show but as far as his accomplishments go - he's exactly the same
It is very sad
People say that "oh it's just like real life, zero character development" I think that mark and jez had plenty of opportunities to develop as people. But mark feared change and jez lacked the guidence. So whilst this show isn't about character development, it teaches the danger of character stagnation. Mark and jez will spiral ever downwards in self loathing and pity. Because they refuse anything else.
I think you are correct. There's a complexity too in the characters trying to pursue other things for their lives but constantly falling short because of their behaviours that don't sit with them naturally.
@key999 no not like real life are all. Peep show isn't a documentary. It's a comedy where no development happens. Well rather they develop negatively purely for comedies sake.
thats so sad and true
So in other words, "oh its just like real life"
@@maxsync183 for some, but people change whether they want to or not. David Mitchell said he'd make a follow up to this where Mark and Jez are in their 60s doing exactly the same stuff. The comedy there is how absurd that is. How could these 2 men who hate each other still be living together and ruining each others lives decade's later?
Peep show never needed a 'stand out' or 'brilliant' episode, it was so consistently funny, its average was so high ALL of the time.
That episode where they eat Mummy, though...
S. Saint. Claire. Not a big fan of the episode with the crazy american girl who gave Jez a pub. But everything else was gravy.
@@mbvglider
- Did you have to eat it though?
- I was wondering that - at the time it *really* felt like I *needed* to eat the dog.
@@BDaMonkey I'm going to section you so hard.
@@amber1862 You know what, I've warmed to it over time. So I can't say I agree with what I wrote there. The Super Hans/Jez interactions in it are pretty funny. You can't trust people Jeremy.
I fucking love how Hans’ last ever line is just “Yee. Laters.”
I think the ending simply means that it's going to be the same thing for another few years. In a way, it ended the way it started. Two of them in a flat with a love/hate friendship. I'm guessing Super Hans returned sooner or later as well after his failed moped rental idea.
you're aside about super hans made me laugh. That probably ~is~ what happens !
Yeah, that's what I got from it. It is at least uplifting that they can't get any lower, but also most likely not any higher, just in a mediocrity limbo forever.
Failed Moped Rental, is what he and Jez called their band when came back!
Super Hans' moped rental really took off big time. It now has franchises all over the Balkans, we won't be seeing him anytime soon.
@@zodrob7 Yeah, who'd have thought calling it "Mopaedo" would've been a hit?
'We love eachother really' .... 'I simply must get rid of him'
That really sums it up.
I believe that, as of 2022, Jez and Mark are still living together in comfortable misery.
I think Mark is doing very well on panel shows these days and has also married a beautiful former poker player (the one!)
100%
@@mark9294 Except actors aren’t actually their characters are they?
Mark was probably a covid hoarder and Jeremy lightly flirted with Qanon conspiracies. Both retrained following the great resignation - Mark is now working with a team half his age writing prompts for ChatGPT to generate captions for tiktoks and Jez sells NFTs based on his music. Neither are happy.
@@Garbageman28Mark probably killed himself
such a depressing show hahahaha, the way it just ends with them on the couch the same way it started, only 10 years later, brilliant
I watched this show on netflix from may-june. Man, I was almost certain I wasn't going to find a british sitcom better then inbetweeners, but I then I found these guys.
great show. a classic
love these exact two and thought just the same!!!
+Barney Os. You should check out Not Going Out and How Not To Live Your Life, if you haven't already. They're another 2 great British Sitcoms.
Barney Os. inbetweener is world class but peep show just had a longer run which allowed the characters to be a bit more fleshed out. Especially the guest stars
Barney Os. THE OFFICE
..Heartbroken that the show has ended. This show got me through my 20s.
Peace Dweller Same
Chance would be a fine thing. A fine thing indeed.
(Me too, dude. Me too.)
Look on the bright side - so, presumably, did your 20s! ...at least I think it's the bright side.
It got me through my depression. No kidding.
the final shot is actually the t.v watching them
Dragon lair beautiful, isnt it.
In Soviet Russia, TV watches YOU
@@NotQuiteFirst No.
Is it HD Ready?
Nope, look at Mark’s eyes.
The final scene made me sad because it was finally over :(
"We do love eachother really"
GoodmorningCaptain I simply must get rid of him...
If this was written like an American sitcom, that "outrageous, contagious" song would have been randomly discovered in China and become an enormous hit there making Hans and Jeremy rich.
He'd have given Mark a load of money so that he could go back to Uni and study Classical history, and the series would have ended at Mark and April's wedding where surprise guest Nancy would have rekindled her relationship with Jez.
As an American, that’s very accurate. Not gonna lie, we’re suckers for a happy ending. In this case, though, this ending was fine. A happily ever after ending would’ve been weird actually
@@sofiaguerrero0969 Americans like the underdog who wins as much as anyone, but yeah, the show would end with a surprisingly positive bang at the last minute.
Yeah I think there needs to be more british cynicism in our sitcoms. We have IASIP but not a ton of others that just let characters be hopelessly awful.
And thus the real happy end is that is isn't an American sitcom.
@@jensablefur155 And the Office bottled a beautiful sad ending with the Christmas specials, we're no better than the Americans
Possibly the worst, yet most fitting ending to a show.
I get this show has a massive cult following but on the whole it didn't make a huge impact and I don't get why. I can't think of a show I've wanted to watch for 9 series. And this one stayed gold the entire time.
i think it's because it's not a traditional drama or american comedy where they always end on a happy note and have a big happy ending to the show where everything is resolved.
It was massive when I was in uni. Almost everybody watched it.
That's kind of the point. Nothing really changed throughout the entirety of the show, which is what made it so hilariously sad, and meant it didn't really have a huge impact on many people. There was no big finale, no happy ending, just misery and awkwardness.
I’ve found when telling people they should watch it that the name ‘peep show’ seems to put people off. Never bothered me but something I’ve noticed. Disappointing really, they’re missing out on a great show.
It's a dark, genuinely funny show without an agenda - if C4 ever thought there was an American market for it they would sell the rights and some shit-tier yank production house would start making Peep Show US, just like skins and shameless and whatever else. Or they would just change the name to dumb it down even more. "Low-rise: A British living-space" it can run for 20 seasons and at the end Jez and Suze get married and he makes a #1 selling album or some sappy bullshit like that.
Other than that i think @idot got it - it's an incredibly bleak social commentary that doesn't give any answers or solutions and has no message other than "life kinda sucks". What kind of impact did you expect it to make?
I know everyone is talking about Mitchell and Webb ageing, but can we just acknowledge that Super Hans has not aged a single day 😂
I know! He's looked the same since 2003 😂
It’s incredible. He’s looked exactly the same for 20 years. If anything, he looks younger now!
He had quite a significant amount of plastic surgery done
he looks perpetually a rough 41 and has since season 1
They both finished way they started single sat in the flat
No, it started with Jez dancing in front of the mirror.
In the beginning Mark had a job at least. Here he is completely fckd
Best friends ever. I'm gonna miss the El Dude Brothers so badly.
Sircosick100
EH EH EHHH
Awkward EH ... EH...
Cant believe its over. Thank you for such a great series! :-)
What the hells wromg with your head
@@PwnZombie huh?
I wonder if Super Hans made it to Macedonia?
simonal1989 That should be a spinoff
simonal1989 probably ran there:)
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
@Jagen: No, FYR Macedonia, Republika Severna Makedonija, but not Macedonia
He toured Britain with the Big Beat Manifesto
Somehow mark managed to look the same age throughout the entire show
He lost quite a bit of weight.
Idk go straight from the last to first season I think both have aged noticeably
@@forsterchurch6242 yeah, you're right although Mitchell has aged a lot better than Webb.
@@forsterchurch6242 Yeah I agree, Mark looks like a baby in the first season
@Dinselt Though if you look at Marks hair he's rocking a pretty obvious combover. I think Robert Webb is probably just going bald a bit more gracefully XD
It's quit sad that the show ended with both Mark and Jeremy on a life-time low, but in many ways it's real life.
i love how it ends just how it all began. "are we gonna be alright?"
Jeremy’s face when Mark is giving his speech is such a subtly desperate portrait of mortified realisation and existential panic that underneath the comedy it’s actually heartbreaking. He knows he’s hit 40 having achieved nothing, not even the respect of his closest friend, and worst of all that *things will never change*. Peep Show walks the tightrope between hilarity and the true horror of being alive like no other show.
Jesse Armstrong, the head writer of Peep Show, also explores that lack of character development in his recent worldwide smash Succession. He has gone on record saying that fundamentally he believes people rarely change.
It ends as it began, two people so worried about missing out that they miss out on everything, life is leaving them behind while everyone else moves on. To insecure to make any sort of decision or commitment, self sabotaging because the truth is the don’t want to or can’t leave each other.
In the first time in Peep Show history, there is a shot that is not from another human beings point of view. The very last shot is from the TV's point of view, in other words we are the audience watching TV and looking at them through the TV. What an awesome ending 🥳
Weirdly enough this is exactly how succession ended
I'm obsessed with Peep Show. And I always wondered why?
Then I realised it gave me the revelation that my life was a comedy not a drama.
Pretty relieving stuff.
When I see the comments on most videos I realize I miss the true understanding most of the time and it's starting to worry me
Damn. What an original and unique way to end a show. Life goes on - deal with it. No typical "happy ever after" or other bullshit. It's great on so many levels.
It's not especially original. Lots of big notable sitcoms have ended with life just going on as per usual. Everybody Loves Raymond springs to mind.
@@zufgh wrong. this was done in a very unique way
@@frank9367 Oh okay well that's proved me wrong.
@@zufgh indeed
I love the nod to the ending of Withinail & I with the wolves on the TV.
A bonus episode with them going on holiday to visit Hans in Macedonia would be legendary
You should start a gofundme petition. i'll chip in :D
You can stop talking your nonsense on my time.
"Totally meaningless, I'm gonna get rumbled."
"That is so sweet. That might be the nicest thing he's ever said."
"Ah, we do love each other, really."
"I simply must get rid of him."
Series ends with Mark burying Jez off-screen after killing him with a pillow on the face.
Is that final shot the only one in the entire show filmed at an angle not from a character? Even 3rd person shots beforehand are implied to be a bystander, but this one is just jarring.
Fitting though.
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There have been a couple but I think they were mistakes
The scene where Super Hans is sucking off Jez, "the bad thing," is in 3rd person.
there was a shot in the episode where mark accidentally proposes to sophie of mark and jeremy walking in the moors
joseph mullan someone said it was meant to be a cow or fox lol
Postcinct ss
"he's not a great man, he's not a wise man, he's not always.. a good man" lmfao
This hurts me so much. They will return, they have to.
Not the funniest scene in the world, but very poignant. Middle finger to all the happy ending American sitcoms!
I was very satisfied with the final scene. Perfectly summed up their relationship, can't live with each other, can't live without each other.
That's what us Brit's do very well I think, poignancy (bitter sweet) to end great comedy sitcom series, going right back to 70's sitcoms. Some great and well loved shows ended this way. Unfortunately there was no youtube, HBO and netflix to share them with our cousins overseas. I have been watching rare gems like this since back then, I am glad our sitcoms are being seen and appreciated more globally now.
Yeah like the Blackadder season 4 ending (the world war 1 series) ending, holy shit that hit me deep
Damn I wish this show was still on!!! I was lucky enough to not find this show until 6 months ago and then watched the entire series in 2 weeks!!!
I agree but my names earl didn't have a happy ending earl finds out joys son is actually his and crabmans son isn't his
I've watched every episode at least 4 times, not kidding. I need a season 10 very badly, i think im going mad.
Fkn mental
omg me too man, this show is a work of art. pure genius
Fair play, it's fucking good
Aristas only 4?
4 Times ? That's Insane.
The starkest reality: 9 years have passed and they just end right back at square one. All they have to show for it is 9 fewer years left in their life.
It was 11 years.
I love this. Ugly, vitriolic, devoid of any sengiment or meaning whatsoever. The show never abandoned it's post in it's 9 seasons.
this makes me so depressed and I don't even understand why
Thomas Duffy I think it's the fact that after all these two have been through over the years, absolutely nothing has changed in their lives and if anything things have gotten worse for them. They're still living together in the same flat, neither of them are in a relationship and both of them are unemployed with the only other person they could really call a friend leaving the country. Pretty grim stuff really.
I love how none of the characters wind up having any legal repercussions for kidnapping and threatening a man.
Jojo Carli well they might but the show doesn’t go that far
That's why Super Hans fleed the country
I'm actually quite glad that they went back to exactly where they were at the start. It actually fits quite nicely
one of the best shows ever with one of the best endings ever
7 years later I'd bet they're still in the same chairs in the same flat
Was flicking through an old magazine from two years ago, saw the final advertisement for the peep show "one last peep" :'( truly one of the greatest shows ever
I miss those two together...Not just Peep Show.... just brilliant writers and performers. Peep Show was a masterpiece and everyone in it gave everything.
This show gives me some overwhelming nostalgia man. 😩 Everything about it, like a window taking me back to some of the best years of my life!
Haha I am a Englishman living in Australia, I tell Aussies to watch this show all the time! One of the true brilliant English comedies!
I'm an Australian living in... Australia and I love this show. One of the greats.
I’m sure we all had a friend who just left our lives with a “laters” like Super Hans with their mad schemes.
I doubt Hans made it out of the country.
I love Mark's raised brows in regards to Super Hans at about 3:02.
I have a feeling that the line “I love how the last line is the same as the first” in the episode with Jeremy’s poem was foreshadowing the fact that Peep Show was going to end in pretty much the same way as it started.
Wasn't keeping track of the eps when I first watched it and actually had a breakdown when I realised there were no more episodes after this... as a result it can never be a satisfying ending, I always associate it with the shell shock of the first time. It's just so sad.
Peep Show predicting Monkeypox..
The moment that drum role sounded I was so sad
I'd watch a "Hans' Rentals" spin off set in Macedonia.
I love that the last shot is the only shot in the entire show that isn't from somebody's perspective, for once its a normal shot that kinda implies the charcters are looking at the viewer for once. kinda unnerving...
Just finished rewatching in lockdown. The last scene is a homage to Withnail & I with the wolves?
We never got to meet "Pedge"
JPaul C
He lives on a houseboat I think?
His houseboat is never gonna be released from Rotterdam
I want more peep show. 😨😪😪
I like how there’s a bunch of random people we’ve never seen before in this scene
A big hole in my life now I've watched all episodes....some of the funniest shit I've ever witnessed.
Exige Pilot Watched this show twice the whole way through in the last year. Surprised how much I loved it.
I love how the ending is just both of them in view, like we are no longer in their eyes anymore.
I didnt realise until the now that the ONLY shot NOT in POV was the very last shot of the two of them!
If constipation was a person Mark would be him.
The way super hans walks around the corner always makes me laugh
1:14 brilliant how as he dips back in to jeremys speech he's calling him a boring bastard 🤣. So many great details in this show
"Oh we do love each other really" ☺
"I simply must get rid of him" 😓
Very touching
Wish I had a Jeremy in my life.
Aeroldoth3 no you don’t.
if you see yourself as mark you're probably more of a jeremy
taliwakka27 I don’t get you
I was hoping they'll be watching God (Bob Ross) on tv as they end it.
Way too perfect... Maybe in nother time-lime
pepo naidas ah yes, a time lime
Yeah it's a shame I kind of liked their habit of watching Bob Ross but they're doing it only in season 1, they drop that joke in the rest of the serie.
And final imagery of wolves and winter, roll credits. Sad and chilling...
Super Hans is the best friend anyone could ever wish for.
He really isn't... stoke jez gfs and didn't care when he was booted out of the band
Super Hans is arguably the reason that Jez never developed or matured after he left Uni.
@@PeaceDweller Mark as well because he enables Jez's childish behaviour.
Love how that last shot is us watching them from our perspective if we were the tv.
2:57 "I'm gonna van it to Macedonia and set up moped rental shop" i'm pretty sure that's a Jason Bourne reference
Mark and Jez are in a way polar opposites, because Jez grows as a person because he has to face up to his reality of being a failed artist. He may remain flawed regardless- there is very little genuine character development in Peep Show- but ultimately he has it tougher than Mark as he age, becoming painfully aware of the sheer futility of the diminishing world he painted for himself in his youth. Mark, however, never aspires for greatness, nor desires anything more than to be “accepted as normal” in what he says are the eyes of others, but are actually in his own. And therefore, as his world crumbles because of his own poor, cowardly decisions, he slowly shrivels himself into a nihilistic, paranoid rut; this climaxes in the nadir of him becoming a fantasist- dangerously misled, manipulative, and quite possibly mentally unwell- in the ninth series, as he aggressively pursues April.
But despite their extreme differences in series 1, after the pathetically juvenile and naïve Jez has just been dumped by Big Suze and has taken a rent-avoiding refuge in the flat of a serious and well-structured Mark, both Mark and Jez are essentially versions of the same character by Series 9. Mark has rubbed off on Jez by Jez realising his fault and taking his life more seriously, inheriting Mark’s cynicism and desire for a successful career to some extent. Jez has rubbed off on Mark by Mark becoming a sexually desperate, increasingly nihilistic loser, who may still be able to take into account the long term consequences of his foolish actions, but who fundamentally cannot being himself to care anymore. They’re essentially two ends of the same “Siamese” parasitic worm.
This article is super cool, please read
theoutline.com/post/7344/we-are-trapped-in-an-episode-of-peep-show
excellent analysis, and a very interesting article! thank you for posting
Nearly as good as "Over the years, I've come to regard you as people..... I.... met"
Glad they put Hands in the final scene. By far my favourite character.
I've always said that the ending of this show is worse than any horror film. Imagine your entire life being sat in front of the TV never doing anything with it.
Horror film implies people have to put themselves into a situation. There are millions, if not hundreds or thousands, millions of such Marks or Jez who bascially wasted their whole life and now can only look forward to dying. But as grim as it sounds - at least they have each other.
Well, Mark has done quite a lot reading and research even after his graduation so I wouldn't put his life in the same position with Jeremy's.
One of the best british sitcoms ever made
Omg we need the Super Hans spin off him and his Moped Business abroad 😂
Vanning it to macedonia and finally setting up the moped rental is what every british man dreams of
but but .. i just subscribed
I had no idea this was the last episode when I watched it, concluding a month long binge of the show. I was so confused when the next episode didn’t autoplay lol
a very fitting end to an outstanding comedy
I would love to see a new series based around Hans and his successful moped business.
I’m rewatching the series again now. I guess my 6th time. lol. I still find myself cracking up in the middle of night watching it! A lot of people just don’t get the show. I suppose it’s because it’s about 2 losers who never grow or prosper in any way at all. But that’s the beauty of the show. No teary eyed episodes. No sweeping emotional music to tug at your heartstrings. Nope there shall be none of that. Just characters being ground down to the emptiness of their lives. Absolutely brilliant!
Getting around the ending after 3 years of watching the Peep Show hit me. I'm going to try at life even if most people I reach out to feel like cardboard. In the end most of us are lonely and reminiscence on that one time we managed to get together and do something. Just like how Mark kept up with mates who never really liked him or were similar, final scene was with Hans ffs. One day, I'll run into my Hans and love him dearly
2:24 a hostage has just erupted out of a room and those extra are just standing around having a drink in the background. Standard.
I like how they got to say good bye and acknowledge each other with the birthday speeches.
Apparently I'm not even allowed to do a little novelty kidnap
I love this ending for the fact that Mark and Jez are basically in the exact place where they were at the start of the series