How Peep Show Became Utopian Fantasy
Released almost twenty years ago, Channel 4’s Peep Show followed Mark and Jeremy through lives that were dysfunctional — but, in today’s terms, also unimaginably comfortable.
David Mitchell (left) and Robert Webb during filming for the new series of Peep Show, on set in North London. (Ian West - PA Images via Getty Images)
The point of Peep Show (2003-2015) is that both its protagonists, Mark Corrigan (David Mitchell) and Jeremy Usbourne (Robert Webb), are abject and despicable losers. Yet watching it recently for the first time in years, I felt a trace of envy. Jeremy is an unemployed slacker, and yet his life, while bleak, holds an unintentional […]
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